Background
On a regular basis X% of our students have childcare responsibilities alongside their school work. And faculty and staff are often in the same position. All such individuals currently invest private resources in solving their particular childcare problems. The institution also pays a price insofar as the arrangements people make take them away from their school work or their work here at Mills.Status Quo
People use off campus facilities and among students there seem to be, from time to time, some coop type efforts. But it has to be reinvented from year to year.Proposal
An inexpensive on-campus day care should be set up for the children of students, faculty and staff. (The children’s school is wonderful, but it’s expensive, open to the general public, and has rules that some find frustrating.) Mills holidays don’t’ always line up with K-12 school holidays and students/faculty/staff have challenges in finding day care on these days.This would jive with our mission, with what first rate employers do, and it could both increase morale and institutional attachment and make it easier for folks to contribute more to the institution in their jobs or in their studies.
