childrens center

Early child care and education programs at WSU merge

PULLMAN, Wash. – Effective July 1, two Washington State University programs providing early childhood education services will merge. The WSU Children’s Center (CC) and the Department of Human Development’s Child Development Program (CDP) will become a single unit under the administration of the Department of Human Development in the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural […]

Awards and honors

• WSU Spokane’s graduate program in interior design ranked ninth in the nation in a recent list released by DesignIntelligence, a bimonthly journal for architecture and design professionals. Rankings are based on surveys of professional design firms.   “The ranking suggests our graduate students are doing extremely well in entry level positions,” said John Turpin, […]

Children’s Center receives national accreditation

PULLMAN —WSU’s Children’s Center has again achieved accreditation from The National Accreditation Commission for Early Care and Education Programs (NAC). The WSU Children’s Center reapplies for this accreditation every three years and provides NAC extensive information about its supervision of children, staff training efforts, classroom curricula, health practices and staff/child ratios during the application process. […]

Infant class added

An infant class will be added in fall 2007 at the WSU Children’s Center, which provides care for the children of WSU faculty, staff and students. “In Pullman, as well as anywhere in the U.S., there is a shortage of infant care,” said Mary Ellen Radziemski, director of the center. The center has nine infant […]

Children’s Center shows creativity with art display

Artwork created by children from the WSU Children’s Center is on display in the Lighty Student Services building this week.Michael Chapman, a preschool teacher at the WSU Children’s Center, and Joyce Leonard, an infant teacher at the WSU Children’s Center, hung paintings, drawings and 3-D fish from the walls and ceilings of the second and […]

WSU recycling leads to new Children’s Center playground

Washington State University Recycling will open the newly constructed Nike Grind playground at the WSU Children’s Center on April 22. The field-turf-material construction project was funded through a combined grant from Nike Inc. and the National Recycling Coalition. In 2002, WSU collected than 5,500 pairs of shoes to donate to Nike for its Reuse-a-Shoe Program. […]