Newcomb Children’s Center originally started as a nursery school for Tulane faculty and staff when Edith Rosenwald Stern, a young parent and community activist, spearheaded a group of six mothers in the endeavor to establish the preschool in 1926, a time when these were not commonplace in the United States. She was the daughter of Julius Rosenwald, founder of Sears Roebuck and Company, and had attended the University of Chicago Lab School, where a preschool had been initiated in 1916.
In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, the Newcomb College Nursery School and Newcomb Child Care Center of Tulane University combined under the name of Newcomb Children’s Center of Tulane University and became a full day program to facilitate the reopening of the university. We continue to offer the same appropriate playground and classroom facilities that help give each child opportunities to develop physically, mentally and socially. The underlying educations theory of the center is that a variety of hands-on experiences help children become confident, curious and ready to learn.