Office of the Registrar

From: Student Affairs, Faculty Affairs, Human Resources

Greetings OSU Students, Faculty and Staff,

Welcome to the start of the 2022-23 academic year.

In looking at the year ahead -- and the importance of integrating learning, work, family and community, we want to share and highlight a number of unique services and programs that OSU offers on the Corvallis and OSU-Cascades campuses in support of families and those with dependent care needs.

 BABy@OSU  – Corvallis campus

These are summer and winter workshops designed to assist students and employees who have taken a leave of absence for the arrival of a new child and are returning to their work and studies.

Family Resource Center Connections Series – University wide

The Family Resource Center offers ongoing opportunities for connection and support such as Beaver Family Connections to learn about important stages in your child’s development and ElderCare Connections for information on caring for an aging loved one. Other welcoming groups include Employee Parent Connections, Student Parent Connections and Beaver Dads. Virtual programming is available to anyone with an OSU email address.

New Early Care and Education opportunities – Corvallis campus

In addition to long-standing child and youth care programs (Azalea, Beaver Beginnings, Child Development Center and KidSpirit), OSU is providing expanded Our Little Village (OLV) short-term reservable child and youth care, and is launching Dixon Kits, a new infant toddler early care and education program.

Early Care and Education – OSU-Cascades campus

Little Beavs offers full day early care and education centrally located on campus that serves infants through preschool aged children. 

 Care.com – University wide

Care.com offers a web-based listing of services including child care, elder care, pet and house sitting housekeeping services and more. Visit Care.com/OSU to create a free profile using your ONID email address.

 Flexible Work Arrangements  – University wide

In support of work-life balance, OSU offers flexible work arrangements (FWA) in situations where there is a mutual benefit to the employee and university.

 Lactation Support – University wide

OSU’s campuses offer well-appointed lactation rooms, in addition to the Corvallis campus offering free lactation parking permits to facilitate on campus nursing sessions. MilkStork, a breastmilk shipping service, is available to employees and students. For additional information and to obtain a free copy of Nursing Mother, Working Mother contact the Family Resource Center at 541-737-4906 or [email protected]

 Family Spaces – Corvallis campus

The Family Resource Center located within Champinefu Lodge and the Memorial Union Family Lounge, located within the west side of the MU’s main floor living room are comfortable places to spend time with young children. The Family Resource Center offers convenient dedicated parking, kitchen, dining and living rooms, lactation room, shower and laundry facilities, and an outdoor picnic area.

Work Life Webinars – University wide

To help support your work and personal life, OSU offers monthly webinars on a variety of work life topics. Webinars can be viewed and registered for here. If you are not able to watch in real time, links to register enable viewing the recorded webinar within 24 hours.

The Family Resource Center and the University Human Resources Office of Work-Life offer additional programs and support of employees, students and their families, as well as referrals to other campus and community resources. Additionally, please be on the lookout for the calendar of events for next month’s celebration of National Work and Family Month.

Wishing you all the best as we look ahead to another exciting academic year.

Heather Horn, Associate Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

Dan Larson, Vice Provost for Student Affairs

Rick Settersten, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs