University Child Care

Greetings! Welcome to University Child Care.

Our goals are to promote physical, cognitive, linguistic, nutritional, social and emotional development in an environment which prides inself on its caring and nurturing of its children, parents and student staff. We focus on supporting the development and parenting efforts of our student parents whom we attempt to assist with their parental responsibilities.

You want the best for your child, the best possible early education and preschool. University Child Care offers exceptional care for children 2, 3, and 4 years of age.

The Center's program model is that of a developmentally-oriented nursery school,with both a Pre Kindergarten Curriculum and, the wrap-around of day care-type hours. As of Fall, 2007, we will no longer be offering our Kindergarten Program. We will, inevitably, have some children who will be five years of age, but were not able to meet the Maryland State Department of Education's cut-off date of September 1 for Kindergarten elsewhere. We will, for those children, within reason, offer developmentally appropriate programming within our PreK Class, but we will no longer certify children as having finished Kindergarten.

Applicants are admitted in the following order of priority:

• Children of current Towson University full time Undergraduate, Graduate, and Doctoral Students
• Children of current Towson University part time Undergraduate, Graduate, and Doctoral Students
• Children of Towson University Faculty and Staff
• Children of former Child Care Center families and staff
• Children of Towson University Alumni
• Children of current University System of Maryland Students
• Children of Citizens of the Community: The State of Maryland
  

Please note: 95% of our staff are university students. We have a staffing "issues" with reference to our normal 10 hour day when the dorms, where many of our student staff reside, are closed. The following days are days when dorms will be closed during this year, and, correspondingly, when we will adjust our normal 10 hour day down to an 8 hour day…8:30A.M. - 4:30 P.M. The list of dates below includes a list of days when we are open an 8 hour day, and a list of days when we are completely closed. If you are a 52 week family you are responsible for paying for every day. If you are a 40 week family, you pay for all of the days that fall between 8/27/07 (the first day of our new year) and 5/31/08 (the last day of our 40 week year).

Days when we are open an 8 hour day (8:30 - 4:30) instead of our typical 10 hour day:

May 21-23, 2008

August 8 - August 29, 2008

November 26, 2008

December 23, 2008

May 20, 21, and 22, 2009

August, 2009 (Please note: As of this writing we do not yet know when the last day of summer school is. Typically there are between two and three weeks after that end of Summer School and before the beginning of fall during which we run 8 hour days.)

Winter Break, 2009. (These dates are unavailable as of this writing.)

Days when we are completely closed

Thanksgiving and the day after Thanksgiving, November 26 and 27, 2009

University's Winter Break (December?, '09-January ?'10*

Dr. Martin Luther King (January 19, 2009)

Spring Break: March 16-March 20, 2009

Memorial Day: May 25 , 2009

Independence Day, celebrated July 3, 2009

Labor Day. September 7, 2009

(We will not be closed for Columbus Day, Election Day, Veteran’s Day, or President’s Day; we remain open on those days thereby allowing us, by moving our earned "holidaysf", to be able to stay closed longer over winter break.) 

*As of this writing, 1/20/09, the University's Calendar is not yet published beyond December 19, 2009.

Current Parents: Applications for the up-coming year, '08-'09, are due to us, signed and dated by 2.18.09. Please pay your $200 deposit to the Bursar's Office. (No money is handled at the Center.) Use our "Tuition and Related Charges" link to ascertain the variety of methods available for paying bills.*After we know which of our families intends to renew their contract(s), we will begin the process of planning for the children we already have, who will be moving up. After then knowing how many spaces we actually have empty, we will begin offering spaces to our existing "waiting list" families. Calls and emails will be made/sent through both of the following weekdays, evenings, and weekends utilizing a 24 hour turn-around clock during which time the interested family must get to the Bursar's Office with their $200 deposit, and have the $200 receipt faxed to us by the Bursar's Office. After waiting 24 Bursar's-Office-Available-Hours, we will assume that the just- notified family is not interested and move on to our next waiting-list family. (Please listen to your voice mail at home and at work numbers, as well as read your email more than daily during the time you are still waiting to hear from us. If your voice mail does not pick up, and the email address we have is not current (our email to you is returned as being "undeliverable") we will note those problems w/date and time on your application, while, nonetheless, moving on to the next waiting-list family on our waiting list.

*  Incoming Alum and Community Families who do not have current accounts with the University will need to arrange with the Center to contact the Bursar's Office for purposes of having an account established before your $200 deposit will be accepted. (The Bursar's Office will not accept payments from anyone without a preestablished account.) To establish an account with the university you will need to give us the full name of the person to be billed (same person as the person signing the contract) your mailing address, and social security number.

Applications for Summer from our 40 week families are due in w/$200 deposit by 3/28/08. All summer requests from current families will be met before new waiting-list families are considered, assuming that our families complied with the 3/28/08 deadline. We will work with the same intensity, weekdays, evenings, weekends, applying the same standard of "responsiveness" to our voicemail messages and emails.

Calendar of Events

• October 31, '08 Halloween Parade leaves from Child Care Center to Towson Center at 10:30. Returning either when Lead Teacher feels necessary or by 11:30 (Please have raincoat and boots available in child's cubby. No umbrellas.
• November 5, '08. Gymnastics Performance. 3:10 to 4:50 (The event is held at Towson Center 212--we will leave the Center 3:15/3:20, and performance at 4:30.) It will take us time to get over and get back. If parents arrive during that time and prefer not to wait for our return, feel free to come over to the Towson Center to pick your child up. The sign-out sheets will be with your child's Lead at the Towson Center. Please park at the Center and walk over to the Towson Center, as your parking pass (if you have a drop off and pick up hang tag) is not operative in that parking lot and you will be parking illegally.
• November 10, '08: Parents Meeting, 5:30-6:30. Child care will be available if you register by noon, November, 6. (Please note: We will only be able to take the first six two year olds registered.)
• November 20, '08, 11:30-12:30, Thanksgiving Pot Luck Gala. Sign-up sheets to distribute food donations for the Gala will be posted in classrooms. More info coming.
• November 26, '08: condensed eight hour day, 8:30-4:30
• November 27 and 28 '09: Holidays-Closed, Thanksgiving Holidays
• December 5, '08; Speech, Language, Hearing Clinic: Beginning at 9:00AM. Permission sheets will be passed out to families as soon as we get them. This is an exercise whereby the students of the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, under the direction of Professor Karen Day (also a former parent here) will be testing our Threes, Fours, and Fives. (No Two Year Olds will be tested.) This is an opportunity for students to learn how to test real, live children. They will NOT be interpreting results of the testing.
• December 12, '08: Field Day, Towson Center, more info to come
• December 23 '08: A condensed eight hour day, opening at 8:30-closing at 4:30
• December 24 '08: Center is closed through January 2, '09
• January 5, '09: Center reopens, 7:30-5:30
• January 19, '09: Center closed, Dr. Martin Luther King
• January 20, '09: Celebration of Inauguration; Children's Parade and Gala
• January 22, '09: Parent/Teacher Group Class Meetings, 4:30-5:25
• March 16-20 '09: Center closed, Spring Break
• March 23, '09: Center reopens, 7:30-5:30
• May 20, 21, 22 are condensed 8 hour days
• May 25, '09: Holiday, Memorial Day
• May 26, '09: Center reopens, full day
• July 3, '09: Holiday, Closed for The Fourth of July
• August 3-28: Condensed eight hour days, opening at 8:30-closing at 4:30
• August 31: Resurme 10 hour days--7:30-5:30
• September 7, Holiday, Closed: Labor Day

University Child Care
Auburn Drive
Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

phone: 410-704-2652

fax:      410-704-3771

http:     www.towson.edu/daycare