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<div><font face="Tahoma">MEMO</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">TO: Members of the MIT
community</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma">FROM: Mary McNally, Administrator of
Child Care Initiatives, Center for Work, Family & Personal
Life</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma">RE: Applications invited for Stata child care
center and MIT child care scholarship programs</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">The MIT Center for Work, Family &
Personal Life is pleased to announce that applications are now
available for MIT’s newest child care center in the Ray and Maria
Stata Center (Technology Children’s Center at Stata), scheduled to
open on June 1, 2004, as well as for MIT’s Child Care Scholarship
Programs.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><u>Applications for Technology Children’s
Center at Stata</u></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">In order to ensure a fair and efficient
process, spaces at Technology Children’s Center at Stata (TCC-Stata)
will be filled initially by lottery, with priority given to members of
the MIT community.<b> Applications for the lottery are being accepted
now through March 19, 2004, at 5:00pm, and entries will be drawn
beginning April 5, 2004. All applications received at any time between
today and March 19, 2004, at 5:00pm will be entered into the lottery
on an equal basis, regardless of application date. There is no urgency
to your submission, provided that it is received no later than Friday,
March 19, 2004, at 5:00pm. </b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Since the lottery will be used both to
determine summer enrollment at TCC-Stata and to order the waiting list
for 2004-05 enrollment, all families interested in applying to
TCC-Stata for either summer or fall 2004 are encouraged to participate
in the lottery. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">For more information or to participate in the
lottery, please visit the new TCC web site at<font color="#0000FF"><u>
http://web.mit.edu/mitchildcare</u></font>. The site provides detailed
instructions for the lottery and an online application form.
Applications and lottery procedures are also available at Technology
Children’s Center at Eastgate in Building E55; at the Center for
Work, Family & Personal Life in Room 16-151; or by contacting me
at<font color="#0000FF"><u> mtmcnall@mit.edu</u></font>,
617-324-0191.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><u>Applications for MIT Child Care
Scholarship Programs</u></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Applications for the MIT Child Care
Scholarship Programs will also be accepted during the same time
period, from now until March 19, 2004, at 5:00pm. The
scholarship programs are available to assist a limited number of
eligible staff, faculty, postdocs, and graduate students with the
costs of MIT’s child care centers.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><b>All those who would like to be considered
for scholarship awards for summer 2004 and/or academic year 2004/05
should apply by March 19, 2004, at 5:00pm, whether they are interested
in enrolling children at TCC-Stata, TCC-Eastgate, TCC-Westgate, or
Lincoln Laboratory Children’s Center. Current scholarship
recipients are also required to re-apply during this period if you
plan to continue your child(ren)’s enrollment after August 31,
2004.</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Scholarship applications and further
information are available at<font color="#0000FF"><u>
http://web.mit.edu/hr/worklife/scholarship.html</u></font> or by
contacting me at<font color="#0000FF"><u> mtmcnall@mit.edu</u></font>,
(617) 324-0191.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><u>Upcoming Information
Sessions</u></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Two information sessions regarding TCC-Stata,
including the lottery process and its coordination with the
scholarship programs, have been scheduled for Thursday, February 26,
2004, and Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:00 to 1:30pm. Participants
will have an opportunity to go over basic lottery procedures; to meet
TCC’s new Executive Director, Gina Tzizik; and to ask questions.
Preregistration is required. Please register on the web at<font
color="#0000FF"><u>
http://web.mit.edu/hr/worklife/seminar.html</u></font></font>.<font
face="Tahoma"> If you are unable to register online, please email the
Center at<font color="#0000FF"><u> worklife@mit.edu</u></font> with
the name and date of the session you wish to attend, as well as your
name, telephone number, and email address, or call 617-253-1592.
Location of the information sessions will be emailed to all
registrants. Open houses at TCC-Stata will be scheduled
shortly.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">To receive information about upcoming events,
or for general information about child care options, visit the Center
for Work, Family & Personal Life web site at<font
color="#0000FF"><u> http://web.mit.edu/hr/worklife</u></font>, or
contact the Center in Room 16-151,<font color="#0000FF"><u>
worklife@mit.edu</u></font>, 617-253-1592. We look forward to hearing
from you.</font></div>
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Ph: 617-253-0386 *~*
Fax: 617-252-1003</font></div>
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Office of the Provost <br>
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