Presentation to the Utah State Board of Regents on Southern Utah University's 2018-19 capital facilities request.

1. Sorenson Legacy Foundation
Child and Family Development Center

2. Child & Family Development Labs
Retention Initiatives—Daycare Center
Community Programs

3. Budget
• Space:16,176 Gross Square foot
• Budget: $6.5 Million
• Construction Cost Per Square Foot: $307
• Soft Cost Per Square Foot: $95
• Requested State Funding: $5 Million
• Community Donation: $1.5 Million

4. Regent Criteria:
Supports Strategic Plan 2025
• 1. The project is part of the Board
approved campus master plan.
• 2. The project will primarily
support the
expansion/enhancement of critical
programs to support regional
economic development.
• 3. The project enhances
innovative delivery of academic
programs.
• 4. The project will improve timely
completion of students graduating
with degrees and certificates.

5. 1. The project is part of the Board approved
campus master plan
• The university’s first and
continuing mission, since 1897,
has been to train teachers.
• Training teachers is critical for
state priorities.
• We have two majors in our
College of Education, Early
Elementary Education and Family
Life and Human Development,
that require a pre-school lab.
• We just lost our lab and are
moving into temporary space.

6. 2. The project will primarily support the
expansion/enhancement of critical programs to
support regional economic development
• Iron County has a serious problem
with intergenerational poverty.
• 21% of the residents are below the
poverty level—second highest in Utah
(state average is 12%).
• 100s of women drop out of SUU or
don’t begin because of their children.
• Average daycare cost is $682 per
month—no “drop off care” available.

7. 3. The project enhances innovative delivery of
academic programs
• 400 undergraduate students
need a lab for their
practicums, observation, and
research.
• This proposed facility will get
our undergraduate students
out of a temporary building
into a state of the art facility
with modern equipment and
technology and learning
methods.

8. 4. The project will improve timely completion of
students graduating with degrees and certificates
• 1/3 of undergraduate students are over 25
• 20% of all students are married
• Approximately 10% have children
• Most students cannot afford daycare to
attend college — $682 per month per child
• 78% have missed a class due to lack of child
care (33% have missed 5 or more classes)
• 43% have considered leaving SUU due to
lack of child care
• 33% have brought children to class five or
more times

9. Regent Criteria:
Addresses Necessary Infrastructure Improvements
• 1. The project will improve space
utilization through the elimination of
space and equipment that is
functionally obsolete.
• 2. The project will resolve imminent
threats to daily operations.
• 3. The project will result in long-term
cost efficiencies through optimized use
of O&M resources, reduced lease
costs, and/or enhanced sustainability
efforts of energy conservation and
efficiencies.
• 4. The project addresses and
improves overall cost-effectiveness of
academic programs.

10. 1. The project will improve space utilization
through the elimination of space and equipment
that is functionally obsolete.
2. The project will resolve imminent threats to
daily operations.

11. 3. The project will result in long-term cost
efficiencies through optimized use of O&M resources,
reduced lease costs, and/or enhanced sustainability
efforts of energy conservation and efficiencies.
• No more lease payments.
• The project merges an
academic lab with a student
retention program and
community services.
• The new facility will be more
energy efficient than the old
elementary school.

12. 4. The project addresses and improves overall
cost-effectiveness of academic programs.
• The new pre-school lab will be
located on campus, rather
than across town in the North
Elementary School, allowing
for greater collaboration and
reduced travel time and
expense.
• The academic program will be
supported by a student
retention initiative.

13. Regent Criteria:
Supports Emerging Needs and Partnerships
• 1. The project leverages
cost-effective partnerships
with other USHE institutions,
state agencies, or other
external partners.
• 2. The project addresses a
time-sensitive emerging
opportunity to enhance state
or regional needs.

14. 1. The project leverages cost-effective
partnerships with other USHE institutions, state
agencies, or other external partners.
• Teddy Bear Den (Community
Prenatal Incentive Program)
• Parent Education Program
and Community Meeting
Room

15. 2. The project addresses a time-sensitive emerging
opportunity to enhance state or regional needs.
• Addresses significant state
and regional needs
• Program will train public
school teachers for Utah
• Assist single parents in rural
Utah start and complete their
education thereby reducing
poverty and reliance on public
assistance programs

16. Site Plan

17. Floor Plan

18. Gifts to Date

19. Thank You!
Ours is a little
project that will
help a lot of
little things