Our teachers facilitate "active learning" in a developmentally appropriate environment for young children and their parents.
Our goal is to promote physical, cognitive, linguistic, nutritional, social and emotional development in an environment that prides itself on the caring and nurturing of our children, parents and student staff. We also focus on supporting the development and parenting efforts of our student parents whom we attempt to assist, whenever appropriate, with their parental responsibilities.
You want the best for your child, which includes the best possible early education. 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 which includes a Pre Kindergarten Program and day care-type hours. As of Fall 2007, we no longer offered our Kindergarten Program. Inevitably, we will have some children who will be five years of age after September 1 who will not be able to meet The Maryland State Department of Education's cut-off date of September 1 for entering Kindergarten. For those children, we offer developmentally appropriate programming within the context of our mission to offer a PreK Program.
Applicants are admitted in the following order of priority:
Children of current full & part time Towson University Undergraduate, Graduate, & Doctoral Students
Children of Towson University Faculty, Staff & Alumnus
Children of current USM Students, Faculty, Staff & Alumnus
Children of The Citizens of our Community: The State of Maryland
Please note: 95% of our staff are university students. We encounter 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, as well as 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 41 week family, you pay for all of the weekdays that fall between 8/12/13 (new, incoming families and 41 week families all start a week earlier) and 5/23/14 (the last day of our 41 week year). Please note: all 41 week and new families are required to start Monday, 8/13/13 to give us a chance to help the children begin to get minimally adjusted to our space and our Teachers prior to the rest of our group arriving the following week.
2013
Days when we are open an 8 hour day (8:30 - 4:30) instead of our typical 10 hour day:
January 23-25
May 22-24
August 5-27
November 27
December 19-20
Days when we are closed
January 21: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
March 18-22: Spring Break
May 27: Memorial Day
July 4-5: Independence Day
September 2: Labor Day
November 28 and 29: Thanksgiving
December 23-January 1, 2014: Winter Break
(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, along with the rest of the university, to "move" our earned "holidays", to the winter break in order to be able to stay closed longer during winter break.)
2014
Days when we are open an 8 hour day (8:30 - 4:30) instead of our typical 10 hour day:
January 22-24
May 21-23
November 26
December 18-22
Days when we are closed
January 20: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
March 17-21: Spring Break
May 26: Memorial Day
July 4: Independence Day
September 8: Labor Day
November 27-28: Thanksgiving
December 22-January 1, 2015: Winter Break
Closings and Alerts
For information on University closings and alerts, please click here to visit the University Closing Information page.
Calendar of Events
TBA; 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 during which 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.Professor Day will alert us if there are any concerns, and we will alert parents to please speak with their pediatrician.
TBA: Parent/Teacher Group Class Meetings, 4:30-5:25
Halloween Parade leaves from the Child Care Center walking toward the Towson Center at approximately 10:30. Returning either when Lead Teacher feels it to be necessary, or by 11:30 (Please have raincoat and boots available in your child's cubby. No umbrellas, or any props are to be carried by hand. Thank you.
November TBA Thanksgiving Pot Luck Gala. Sign-up sheets to distribute food donations for the Gala will be posted in classrooms. More info coming.
Speech and Hearing Testing: December TBA Parent authorized permission slips required.
Winter Fest: Towson Center, Time to be announced. Parents are invited to join us.
University Child Care
Auburn Drive
Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
8000 York Road | Towson, MD 21252 | 410-704-2000
University Child Care