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The Daily Utah Chronicle

The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

Day care center on the University of Utah campus, Salt Lake City, UT on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017

(Photo by Adam Fondren | Daily Utah Chronicle)

What’s Child Care at the U Like?

By Miacel Spotted Elk, News Writer June 4, 2019

  It’s small, on the fourth floor in the Union and shrouded in boxes of Huggies. A quote on the wall by late anthropologist George Dorsey reads “Play is the beginning of knowledge.” This...

Jessica Patterson, Matt Miller and Jack Bender pose in-front of U at the University of Utah.
Wednesday April 20, 2016. (Photo by August Miller)

ASUU’s First “University Gift” Going Toward University Child Care Fund

By Connor Richards May 6, 2017

"It’s the gift that keeps giving." This is how Jessica Patterson, the outgoing ASUU Vice President of Student Relations, describes a $25,000 donation to the ASUU Child Care Endowment Fund overseen by...

(Photo by Erin Burns)

U Child Care Expands Services for Student Parents

By Kylee Ehmann January 15, 2015

  With snacks in the entryway and blue booties to cover visitors’ shoes, the ASUU Child Care Center hosted an open house to celebrate its new infant care room. The new room began accepting kids...

Lactation Stations Bring Comfort and Convenience to Student Mothers

October 27, 2014

Breastfeeding in public is a contended issue across college campuses, but the U is making efforts to end the controversy. Lactation stations have been set up across campus, at the library, the Student...

(Photo by Chris Ayers)

The U’s Child Care Program Helps Student Parents

September 14, 2014

  Walk through the doors of the basement of the Alfred Emery Building on President’s Circle, and you will see a sight not unfamiliar to the rest of the U campus. People rush through the doors,...