University of Central Oklahoma
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TUESDAY March 10, 1998
Winging it... Members of the Advanced ImprOv. class perform a game called symphony outside Broncho Lake Wednesday. From left: Joe Dibello, junior; Steven Gillmeire, senior; Amber Bass, senior; and Alana Stoldt, junior. Seated is Samantha 1 Goddard. (Staff photo by Bryan Terry)
Survey finds need for UCO child care By Penny Hubbard Staffitiriter
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n overwhelming response to an informal survey done by the College of Education shows there is a definite need for child care on campus. The survey was completed last month as part of a plan to build a new child development center at UCO. "The response was overwhelming," said Dr. Mary Monfort, professor of curriculum and instruction. "This was just a survey of students. If the faculty and staff were surveyed the numbers would be greater." The survey was sent to approximately
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325 faculty. Of those, about 85 surveyed their classes and returned their findings to Monfort. The survey revealed approximately 870 children would be potential clients of the day care. Currently, Monfort and others are working on funding for a complete child services center that would consolidate the existing speech and hearing, reading, math and counseling clinics on campus into one building. That would permit the delivery of multiple services in an interdisciplinary fashion to special:needs children within the, state of Oklahoma and would assist in training future child service specialists, according to the proposal.
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Monfort isn't alone in her support for a day care center. UCO's Women's Caucus has discussed the need for a day care and set up a family task force to talk about the difficulties of day care. "It's a goal we had in mind to benefit women as well as men on campus, including faculty and staff," said Dr. Suzan Waller, associate professor of sociology. Now Waller says the caucus is considering ways to help the child development center with its goals. "What I agreed to do is find someone who has expertise in grant Writing to help them," she said. Waller said there would also be ways
to incorporate working the day care into course requirements or extra credit for students outside the child development center. Proposing a day care on campus is not a new idea to UCO. About two years ago, Stacy Meldrum, now of prospective student services, proposed a day care facility to President George Nigh. Meldrum said that Nigh wouldn't consider the day care because of problems with liability. "We had funding to help with the cost of the facility, but the idea just wasn't part of the university's plan at that time,"
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