The completed expansion of App State's Child Development Center is shown in this aerial 照片 taken in September 2022. 点击图片查看全图. 韦斯·克雷格和蔡斯·雷诺兹摄
The Child Development Center expansion was one of several major construction projects completed at 澳门新濠娱乐开户 to enhance the App State Experience.
该项目支持 战略计划 App State和该校的 目标和指标 与北卡罗来纳大学系统的战略计划有关. 它将使学生、学者和社会受益.
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这个项目增加了该公司的产能 儿童发展中心(CDC),为该校的教职员工和学生提供服务.
Part of the Division of Student Affairs, the CDC offers high-quality, affordable care to 68 children. 在2022年秋季扩建开放时, 该中心的等待名单上有200多个儿童/家庭.
The university recognizes the importance of child care in recruiting and retaining highly qualified 教师, 教职员及学生, and for allowing students to continue their education as they raise and expand their families. The center’s operations are funded by sliding scale fees based on the income of the parents and families of the children.
App State儿童发展中心的一间新教室. 蔡斯·雷诺兹摄
儿童发展中心学生 are shown in one of the facility's new classrooms in September 2022. 蔡斯·雷诺兹摄
儿童发展中心(CDC)的工作人员, 左, works with young CDC students in the center's adjacent playground facilities in September 2022. 蔡斯·雷诺兹摄
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A design selection committee worked through the fall 2018 semester soliciting proposals from possible design firms and conducting interviews. 委员会的最终选择, 克拉克Nexsen, 阿什维尔的, App State董事会周五批准了, 12月. 7, 2018. 克拉克Nexsen concluded a feasibility study recommending a best course of action to university leadership in June 2019.
在考虑了报告之后, 这所大学计划增加一个3,000平方英尺, pre-fabricated building with a fixed foundation to the existing site on Poplar Grove Road and renovate the current building — changes that would allow the facility to accommodate an additional 40–50 children. 相关的现场工作包括一个新的下车区, 停车, 人行道和室外操场空间. 2020年1月,现场准备工作从土壤样品的钻孔开始.
布恩镇的分区和合并于2020年秋季获得批准, MBI Builders LLC于2021年2月签约为承包商. 该项目经历了许可和材料延误, which extended the completion date of construction work for the building’s exterior to June 2022.
The sections of the pre-fabricated building arrived at App State in 12月ember 2021, 在2022年早春安装了壁板和斜屋顶. Workers moved furniture into the new facility and completed work for the site’s sidewalks, 停车场和2022年夏季的新游乐场. Facility classrooms passed local health department inspection in August 2022 and the building received its certificate of occupancy. 疾控中心收到 北卡罗来纳州儿童发展和早期教育处 该设施于8月8日获发牌照. 于2022年8月19日开业. 2022年2月22日——App State 2022年秋季学期课程的第一天. 该建筑的落成仪式将于2022年秋季晚些时候举行.
该中心获得了另外54名儿童的许可. 设计增加了五个额外的教室, 一个厨房, laundry facilities and additional 停车 and sidewalks around the new and existing buildings. 另外, 今年秋天,一个新的AppalCART巴士站将被安置在该中心, providing greater access to and from CDC for those student parents and community families who rely on local transit.
它的资金来源是什么??
联合国军司令部理事会核可了2美元的开支.为整个项目提供5700万的大学运营资金.
谁会受益??
主要是, 校园社区, 随着越来越多的学生, 教职员工将获得高质量的教育, 负担得起大学期间的儿童保育费用.
A recent assessment by Wellness and Prevention Services indicated an increasing number of students have dependents and need additional support, 比如照顾孩子的选择, 在App State茁壮成长. 这些学生家长中的大多数都没有家庭支持, 根据儿童发展中心主任的说法, 玛利亚Stegall.
其次, the larger community may benefit as slots in local child care facilities become available as a result of the increased accommodation by the CDC.
它如何支持UNC系统目标和指标?
与学生一起设计的强化校园, 教师, staff and the public in mind supports recruitment and retention of all members of the university and local communities.
目前主要项目:
An aerial view of areas receiving millennial campus designation at 澳门新濠娱乐开户. 视频由玛丽·弗里曼提供