University Sponsored Child Care Task Force

Report to Faculty Senate

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.