Following a national search, Leslie Haning, director of Fairmont State Colleges Childrens Learning Center, will oversee the establishment of the new West Virginia University Child Development Center.

“The child care needs of our students are important,”said Herman Moses, associate vice president and dean of WVU Student Affairs.

“We have been committed to hiring a director and creating a center since 1999 when a Child Care Committee found that many WVU students needed child and infant-care services and flexible hours to coincide with changing class schedules,”Dean Moses said.”We are pleased to have someone of Hanings caliber fill this important role.”

In addition to establishing and coordinating a new WVU Child Development Center, Haning will work with specified providers to provide flexible child-care alternatives for students.

Haning has been at Fairmont State since 1994, coordinating its campus-based development centers.

Since 1997, she also has been a certified instructor with the U.S. Department of Labors Apprenticeship for Child Development Specialist Program.

She was a flight attendant for U.S. Air from 1990-94.

From 1988-89, she was first assistant director and then interim director of Kinder Care Learning Centers, Inc., in Burke, Va.

Haning belongs to numerous professional organizations, including the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Southern Early Childhood Association and the National Coalition for Campus Childrens Centers.

She earned a bachelors degree in family resources, child development and family studies in 1987, and a masters in elementary education in 1997, both from WVU .