University of Central Oklahoma
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TUESDAY October 8, 1996
On-campus daycare could become reality By Leslie Wakulich Staff Writer
ast week a UCO student with his 2 yearold son in tow, showed up at Susan McCauley's office looking for daycare. Little did this father know that UCO doesn't have offer child care services. "Someone told me there was a daycare center on campus," he said to McCauley, director of UCO's Child Study Center. "He was desperate," she said. "But I couldn't help him." McCauley said that situation is not unusual. Many people assume there's a child care The time is now. facility on campus when they see the playground and the And I'm fairly children from the study center confident that it's a playing outside. "I get at least a half a dozen real priority. calls a week asking if we have —Dr. Kaye Sears daycare," she said. The Child Study Center, professor of human located in the Home Economics environmental Building, is a 2 1/2 hour per sciences day pre-school for children of students, faculty, staff and the community. Those who would like to enroll their children can expect at least one-year on the waiting list. But that center may soon be a part of a bigger "Child Services Center." That is, if things go as planned. Dr. Kaye Sears, professor of human environmental sciences, has been pushing for oncampus daycare since 1980. But the proposal has always been shot down
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Daniel Wong, 5, hangs on the monkey bars at the playground behind the Home Economics building while waiting for his mother, Rachel, to pick him up. (Staff photo by Laurette Graham)
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