University Child Care

Welcome to University Child Care. Our goal is to promote physical, cognitive, linguistic, social and emotional development in an environment which is caring and nurturing. We focus on supporting the development and parenting efforts of our student parents by allowing parents to continue their education while 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 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, be willing to offer developmentally appropriate programming, 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 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

January        2009

Spring Break: March 16-March 20

May                2009

August          2009

Days when we are Closed

Labor Day

Thanksgiving and the day after Thanksgiving

University's Winter Break

Dr. Martin Luther King

Spring Break: March 16-March 20

Memorial Day

Independence Day

Labor Day

(We will not be closed for Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, or President’s Day; we remain open on those days which allows us to be able to stay closed longer over winter break.) 

Current Parents: Applications for the up-coming year, '08-'09, are due to us, signed and dated by 3.14.08. 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.

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