University Sponsored Child Care Task Force
Report to
12-4-07
In late September
2007 Provost Marilyn Sheerer called a meeting of the Child Care Committee that
issued Providing Child Care at East Carolina University: A
Preliminary Report in October 2006. This committee was appointed by
Provost Smith in April 2006.
Drawing membership
from this committee, Provost Sheerer formed the University Sponsored Child Care
Task Force and charged this group with responsibility for moving the university
sponsored child care initiative forward. This task force includes:
·
Mr.
Scott Buck, Associate Vice Chancellor for Administration & Finance -
Business Services
·
Dr.
Cynthia Johnson, Chair of the Department of Child Development and Family
Relations
·
Ms. Nan
Lee, Teaching Instructor, Department of Child Development and Family Relations
·
Dr. Jane
Manner, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
·
Dr. Rick
Niswander, Dean of the College of Business
·
Dr.
David A. Powers, Professor Emeritus, College of Education
·
Dr. John
Reisch, Associate Professor, Department of Accounting
·
Dr. Mark
Sprague, Associate Professor, Department of Physics
·
Ms.
Terry Stansbury, ECU Staff Senate
The University
Sponsored Child Care Task Force began meeting in October 2007. The task
force met with representatives from Pitt County Memorial Hospital to discuss
the hospital’s child care program. Ms. Jennifer Congleton, Administrative
Employee Recognition and Retention Director for Pitt County Memorial Hospital,
spoke with task force about her role as liaison with the hospital’s child care
program. Ms. Becky Scramlin, Director of A Child’s Place (Pitt
County Memorial Hospital’s child care program), shared information about the
design and operation of the hospital’s child care program. Mr. Nigel
Birtwistle, Client Services Director for Bright Horizons, came to Greenville to
speak to the committee on the child care program options available through his
firm. Representative from the City of Greenville City Manager’s Office
and from Pitt Community College have joined the task force for a number of
these meetings.
Based on information
gathered during these presentations in October and November, the task force is
working closely with Mr. Scott Buck’s office to design a Request for
Proposals. The task force has set mid-January 2008 as a target for
completing and distributing a Request for Proposals.