The study is a comprehensive ethnographic investigation into how a campus children's center and laboratory school site can simultaneously serve six major population groups (i.e., parents, college students, teachers, faculty, administrators, and researchers) while maintaining program operations. The study carefully examines the converging and competing interactions between the center's multiple operating functions, its effect on population groups, and its effect on needs. Findings point to inherent roles, values, and service priorities of each population group, and how these roles, values, and priorities translate into center operations and school culture. Approaches to service translate into emerging themes for all population groups to focus on in order to achieve a more cohesive and collaborative servitude within groups of a single center site. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]