CLUE PROJECT

Bloomsburg’s Child Care Center

By Melody Ammenhauser

PROBLEM

Why are current student registration

fees for Bloomsburg’s Child Care Center

significantly lower than non-students?

How could this potentially be positive or

negative for the campus?

PROBLEM

Some students have children before college. After

being faced with that big decision, choosing a college

should be easy, right? Student mothers have to take

into consideration who will be watching their child

while they try to further their education. Luckily,

Bloomsburg University has an excellent child care

center with a very generous fee discount for current

students. But what does this mean for other mothers?

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PROBLEM

Do people consider a campus to be

picky if they give current students a

discount for their child care centers?

Or is it all about the advertisement?

METHOD

Ethnography:

Observe them as the public eye

Ask other people for their opinion

Research the child care center.

FINDINGS

Observe

It is winter right now, but in the fall semester the

playground was in full use.

o Students worked with the children.

o They were always supervised

o Never seemed affected by all of the college

students going to and from class

FINDINGS

Ask others

Current college students are in favor of child care

centers.

Most people agreed with the fact that the child care

center in Bloomsburg was cheaper for current students

than non-students.

Current college students considered the child care

center are a positive thing.

FINDINGS

Research

The center takes children from 6 months to

kindergarden age.

Registration fee- $30

Fees for full time (4-5 days a week):

Current Student: Child- $1,696 Infant- $2,266

Non-student: Child- $6,566.25 Infant- $7,242

www.bloomu.edu/childcare

CONCLUSION

I think if more campuses knew that students are in

favor of the child care centers they would consider

making room for this important building.

I agree with giving a discount to students who are

already giving money to the school by attending

there.2

Bloomsburg could be doing it for advertisement, but

that does not matter as long as the community

benefits from it.3

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