Child Care Proposals and Surveys at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1970-1998

Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women: Child Care Proposals and Surveys, 1970-1998

Year	Proposed By	Commission By/Submitted To	Conclusions	Information From	Results
1970	Women’s Liberation Cadre	UIUC BOT	Need for campus-based child care center to serve students, staff and faculty needs		No center
1979	Student’s for Child Care	SORF	Need for child care center	Big 10 survey	No center
1979	Orchard Downs	Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Levy	Need for child care drop-off center	Survey of married students	No Center
1979	Campus Committee on Women’s Concerns	Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Levy	Need for campus-based child care center	Big 10 Survey	No Center
1983	Committee on Status of Women	Chancellor	1) assign child care issue to one person in one campus office 2) immediately establish child care referral service 3) long-term goal to create campus child care center		Ombudsman assigned as point of contact. Referral service established in ‘85. No center
1995	Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Gunsalus & Assistant Dean of Students O’Shaughnessey (White Paper)	Administration	Working group to carry out detailed cost analysis and feasibility study appointed	Central Management Services; Group Insurance Division; CDL Annual Report 1993-1994; Site visits to Univ. of Minn, Penn State, Michigan State & VA Commonwealth	Cost analysis completed. No plans for center
1995	Wasserman Report	Provost and VC for Administration	Could build facility via user fees that would accommodate 116 additional children (estimated cost $6.7 million)	No action on report
1996	Office of Facility Planning	Chancellor's Capital Review committee	Sent capital programs back to re-estimate the cost that they provided for the 1995 report.	No action
1997	Provost	Recommendation to Capital Programs	Given priority of 12th on a list of 19 for FY1999	?
1998	Letter from Provost Faulkner to CSW	Provost	Outlines progress and steps taken over past four years. Notes State of Illinois statute requiring the need for child-care facilities to be assessed and acted upon as each new institutional facility is constructed as long as facility houses 50 or more employees. Campus must now develop a policy compatible with the statute.	Interim Provost charged by Chancellor to address this issue and formulate a policy.

Prepared by Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women 4/97; Updated 8/98