Get Tons of Family Activities Sent to You Weekly!

Rockland Parent has a new home! Find us at newyorkfamily.com for even more guides, events & resources

SUNY Rockland's Campus Fun & Learn Child Development Center Receives $10,000 Donation


Nanuet resident and SUNY Rockland Professor William McGregor donated $10,000 to the college's new Campus Fun & Learn Child Development Center.

 

Theresa Morahan Simmons Center for Children and Families, SUNY Rockland; Professor William McGregor and Kyle Miller, Campus Fun & Learn Child Development CenterLast month, SUNY Rockland Community College received a $10,000 check to benefit its Campus Fun & Learn Child Development Center, which opened last September. The donor was Nanuet resident William McGregor, who is an associate professor of mathematics at the college and an executive board member of the center. "Early childhood education is one of the most important things we can do for each other as a community," McGregor says. "If we teach our children properly at the start, we raise achievement and lower conflict in our society."



   The Campus Fun & Learn Child Development Center provides full and part-time care and education to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, with instruction in language, nature, science, cooking, literacy, art, music, and more. It also offers before and after school and half-day and vacation care to school-aged children. Busing to the before and after school programs is provided by East Ramapo and Ramapo Central School districts. Housed in a state-of-the art building, the Theresa Morahan Simmons Center for Children and Families, the center is open year-round to all Rockland residents.

   "We have high standards, and we tend to aim higher than what the state requires," says Kyle Miller, director of the center, citing staff requirements and child-to-staff ratios as points of pride. McGregor's donation will help the center continue to offer its services without cutting back on quality, Miller says.

   For more information on the Campus Fun & Learn Child Development Center, visit www.sunyrockland.edu/go/childcare.


Want more content like this?


More News Articles:

Movie House Paramus: An Immersive Cinematic Adventure

Movie House, the latest creation from the team behind the popular Christmas House and Halloween House, is now open in the Paramus Park Mall, New Jerse...


Latest News:

5 Best Rockland Party Places (that kids will love!)

Browse this list of fun birthday party locations in Rockland County, NY, that kids of all ages will love.


Family Activities:



Have a Laugh:

Best Memes of the Week for Parents

Here are the funniest parenting memes from Instagram, Facebook, and Reddit this week.
Kaitlin Ahern

Author: Kaitlin Ahern has a degree in magazine journalism from Syracuse University. See More

Featured Listings:

Kreative Kids & Vicki's Dance Studio

Kreative Kids & Vicki's Dance Studio

New City, NY For over 29 years, Kreative Kids has provided a nurturing and fun-filled toddler/nursery program where classes are kept small for individualized atten...

Sky Zone Allendale

Sky Zone Allendale

Allendale, NJ Sky Zone is the world’s first indoor trampoline park. We’re the inventors of “fun fitness” and the makers of trampolines as far as the eye can see. We...

St. Paul School

St. Paul School

Valley Cottage, NY For over 50 years, St. Paul School has been providing a supportive environment designed to stimulate sound judgment, critical thinking, acquisition of...

Palisades Climb Adventure

Palisades Climb Adventure

West Nyack, NY Get ready to experience the World’s tallest indoor ropes course standing 85 feet tall. Palisades Climb Adventure combines the thrill of challenge with...