This document explores the possible use of the University of South Carolina at Columbia's (USC) Children's Center as a high quality child and family center laboratory that would serve the university. The existing USC child care center, which is operated by the College of Education, will close at the end of the 1991-92 academic year. Initial…

Child development programs at the 103 California community colleges were studied to justify and demonstrate the need for continued project development of on-campus laboratory facilities. Information, collected from college catalogs, directories, and telephone interviews with college personnel, was analyzed to clarify confusing terminology and to…

In 1983, Santa Monica College (SMC) created a task force to assess the college's need for child care services and to devise possible service models for consideration. Subcommittees were formed to address student and staff child care needs; ways of funding child care services; criteria for possible child care facilities and sites which met these…