These collected conference papers, which originated from diverse campus child care centers across the United States, provide guidance for day-to-day decision-making about campus day care. Contents concern: (1) campus child care's mission and challenges; (2) campus child care in relation to the national picture, an in-depth look at campus child care in one state, and a sampling of designs in operation at specific colleges and universities; (3) methods of starting a center, and specific examples of different start-up approaches; (4) finding funding and resources; (5) the issues and practices of campus child care directors; and (6) the relation of centers to the teaching, service, and research mission of institutions of higher education. Appended materials, which include testimony before committees of the Federal government, represent an effort to share arguments which have been made in support of campus child care. A chronological list of the conferences at which the articles were originally presented in also appended, and a bibliography containing 169 citations is provided. (RH)