Hosted by Richard Ross, this video consists of an OSU College of Home Economics fundraising appeal in support of a family study center that would improve researchers' understanding of family life amidst changes in demographics in the United States. The proposed center would include demonstration classrooms to allow teachers and researchers to observe and record behavioral interactions between children and adults; spaces for lectures and seminars; a telephone survey laboratory that would make survey research more efficient: and office space for faculty and graduate students. The OSU Child Development Center, also known as Bates Hall, was opened in 1992.

Digitized from a VHS original held in the College of Home Economics Motion Picture Films and Videotapes (FV 044, box 3), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.