Annotated Bibliography: Daycare Services at Higher Learning Institutions

Boressoff, Todd. "Financing Child Care for College Student Success: A Toolkit for Colleges and Universities, Program Leaders, Policymakers, And Advocates Institute for Womens Policy." Institute for Womens Policy Research, vol 3, no. 1, 2013, pp. 4-44.

This study by Todd provides fundamental information about several funding sources for daycare services at the university level. It is a critical resource that advocates for child care in higher learning institutions. Additionally, this article provides a guide on how to provide quality day care services in colleges or enhance existing services to benefit students children. Similarly, it offers ways of expanding and building networks of support for parents who study at regional universities. This resource is very critical for colleges who intend to develop day care service because it proposes numerous public and private funding services available. The public funding sources include Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) And Child Care Access Means Parents in Scholl Program (CCAMPIS) while private funding sources include fundraisers and foundation grants.

Carlson, Scott. "Campus Child Care, a Critical Student Benefit, is Disappearing." Chronicle of Higher Education (2015).

This article is in contrary to other reports that support day care services in universities or colleges. The study entails implications of day care services on students career as well as children early development. Ideally, the paper has enumerated several negative impacts that the program within the institution. It reveals lack of understanding of childhood developmental needs as a significant effect of that program. Additionally, lack of enough spaces, physical and environmental challenges, and inadequate funding are other challenges associated with campus-based day care services. Lastly, the article discourages the program because of untrained and less staff to carry on with the program and increasing costs that ultimately results to the exclusion of some children.

Cruse, Lindsey et al. "Child Care Assistance for College Students with Children: An Opportunity for Change in Washington State." Briefing Paper, Access to Higher Education, Student Parent Success Initiative, vol 2, no. 1, 2017.

This research by Institute for Womens Policy Research provides an overview of publicly funded childcare at the university level. It shows how the program has significantly helped low-income student parents proceed with their studies without financial challenges. The study reveals that over 5 million college students in the US raise their children while still studying and proposes addressing their child care needs. Similarly, the research shows that daycare programs are key to attaining completion of higher education programs by the parents and achievement of ethnic/racial equity in higher education. Lastly, the study shows that daycare program helps the students afford children needs and ultimately contributing to economic demands and growth of Washington economy.

Friendly, Martha, and Lyndsay Macdonald. "Child care in Canadian universities." Background research and analysis for a child care feasibility study for the University of Manitoba (Toronto, ON September 2014) (2014).

This report analyzes an initiative of the University of Manitoba to enhance university childcare to support students who are parents. This resource explains the need for the University to meet childcare needs by integrating programs and facilities to improve child care services and childhood education into campus developments. Additionally, provision of daycare children services in the University will help mitigate the problem of weak policy and insufficient funding for access to affordable and quality child care for Canadian families. Moreover, this study provides ways for financing university-based child care programs in U-15 universities and determines the eligibility of students who qualify for government funding to support their children.

Noll, Elizabeth et al. "College Students with Children: National and Regional Profiles." Institute for Women's Policy Research, vol 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-32.

This resource entails a study of undergraduate college students who are raising children at their campus. It shows a trend of increasing student parent population in Universities both nationally and regionally. Additionally, the study describes the efforts by the Lumina Foundation through a project to provide daycare for students children. However, the report shows declining access to on-campus child care across several regions despite the program having positive short and long-term gains in students career. The report recommends that policymakers, colleges, and universities implement policies that help student parents to access funding and support while carrying on with their university studies.

Works Cited

Boressoff, Todd. "Financing Child Care for College Student Success: A Toolkit for Colleges and Universities, Program Leaders, Policymakers, And Advocates Institute for Womens Policy." Institute for Womens Policy Research, vol 3, no. 1, 2013, pp. 4-44.

Carlson, Scott. "Campus Child Care, a Critical Student Benefit, is Disappearing." Chronicle of Higher Education (2015).

Cruse, Lindsey et al. "Child Care Assistance for College Students with Children: An Opportunity for Change in Washington State." Briefing Paper, Access to Higher Education, Student Parent Success Initiative, vol 2, no. 1, 2017.

Friendly, Martha, and Lyndsay Macdonald. "Child care in Canadian universities." Background research and analysis for a child care feasibility study for the University of Manitoba (Toronto, ON: September, 2014) (2014).

Noll, Elizabeth et al. "College Students with Children: National and Regional Profiles." Institute for Women's Policy Research, vol 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-32.