The Lansing Community College (LCC) Board of Trustees recently approved a $1.7 million budget to turn the college’s 12,000 square foot former photography building into a children’s learning center.
“The number one reason for doing this is a financial one,” says Linda Heard, communications specialist for LCC. “Students and faculty are under financial challenges just like the rest of us and if we can lighten that burden, it frees up students to learn.”
Not only will the center provide daycare services for staff and students, it will also give Early Learning Children’s Community (Early LCC) students internship experience working with young children.
“Not only will we be providing services for these people, but it will also be a learning center,” Heard says.
LCC has been trying to create an on-site daycare facility for more than 30 years. The facility, which will be open year-round and is scheduled to be finished in the fall of 2010, will accommodate 93 children. Heard says if the center does not reach capacity, LCC will allow community members to enroll their children at the facility.
Source: Linda Heard, LCC
Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains and can be reached here.
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