History
Campus-based childcare at SF State was first approved by the CSU Board of Trustees in January 1971, and Associated Student (AS) opened its doors to student parents of preschoolers on October 10, 1972. The cost of construction and operation of the AS Lilliput Childcare Center was paid for primarily by AS funds and a pledge of $16,000 from the Jesse and Clement Stone Foundation of Chicago secured by SFSU President S.I. Hayakawa. In 1989, to ensure that no student parent be denied access to any CSU campus or have his/her academic progress impaired because of the lack of adequate, affordable campus child care services, the CSU Board of Trustees adopted the State-wide Policy on Campus Children's Center Programs. This policy provided the extra funding needed to expand the AS Children's Center's (Lilliput) hours of operation, improve the quality of service and expand care to include infants and toddlers.
Specialties
Our mission is to assist SF State student parents with their goal of obtaining a college degree by providing them with high-quality, convenient and affordable childcare for their young children. We are proud of the student parents' ethnic, racial, cultural, religious and economic diversity on our campus and therefore welcome all families in our Center. To meet this goal, we define family to be two or more persons who share resources, share responsibility for decisions, share values and goals and have a commitment to one another over time. We believe that the family is that climate that one comes home to. It is a network of sharing and commitment that most accurately describes the family unit regardless of blood, legalities, adoption or marriage.