Child Care - Handbook

Child Care programs affiliated with MTSU include:

The Child Development Center Lab, located in the Fairview Building, has limited spaces in their early childhood development program. It operates only 5 hours per week and only 12 weeks of the semester They take children from 12 months to 3 years of age in this program meeting 2.5 hours a day two days per week. If this schedule meets your childcare needs, contact Dr. Carol Detmer at 898-2198 for details.

If you have a three or four year old...

The MTSU Child Care Lab, in the Womack Lane Apartments on Homecoming Circle, serves 24 children on a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule and 24 other children on a Tuesday-Thursday schedule during the academic year. Full week care is only available in the summer months. This 3-star rated facility provides excellent care for students enrolled on a part-time schedule. Children must be within a month of their 3rd birthday and potty trained. If this facility will work for your child, call Nancy James at 898-2970 for details.

If you have a school-age child ...

There are many days during the year when MTSU classes meet, but school-age children have a school holiday or a snow day. Kids R Kids can take school-age children up to age 12 on these holidays, if you have pre-registered for the holiday care and provided a copy of the child's immunization records in advance. If you want to sign up for this holiday care for your school-age child, contact Kids R Kids at 907-5437 for details.

If you are taking evening classes ...

The Evening Extended School Program (EESP) provides evening care for school-age children, kindergarten through 8th grade at the Campus School building, located on Lytle St. They operate from 3:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. for students enrolled in evening classes and studying at the library. To enroll your child for this evening care, contact Jennifer Stanley at 904-8220.

Other childcare possibilities:

Project Help - 898-2458
Speak to Margaret McPeak to get on waiting list
Open Monday through Friday, Ages 15 months to 3 years
M-R typical and developmentally delayed together; F- typical only

Murfreesboro Head Start
(Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency)
Open 6:30AM - 6PM, Monday through Friday, 896-5870
Accepting children 6 weeks to 5 years; Sliding scale based on income guidelines

MTSU/Murfreesboro City Schools Collaborative Classroom
8:00AM 1:30 PM Monday through Friday; 3 & 4 year olds of *eligible MTSU student. Belle Aire Center of MTSU on Greenland; Contact Debbie Bauder or Tricia Yeargan 898-2458
*Eligibility determined by application, living in M'boro city limits, birth certificate, imm. record, proof of income, IEP

• MTSU & Campus School EESP , 904-8220
• MTSU Child Care Lab , 898-2970
• Project Help , 898-2458