I have been in non-stop meetings and semester-opening prep, so today I am going to focus on just a couple of quick hit items.
This is from Student Health related to pre-arrival testing:
As students submit their pre-arrival COVID tests in the Student Health Portal, those tests have to be reviewed and coded; it is not an automatic confirmation that the student is in compliance with the testing requirement. When submitting your COVID-19 test to the Student Health Portal, students should allow 48-72 hours for this submission to reflect compliance in the Residence Life and Housing portal.
Students receive messages from Student Health Service in their Student Health Portal; some appear not to be opening those messages. You may want to gently remind your Deacs to that they should be checking the portal for messages.
We have had some questions about students getting a STOP on their SneezSafe because they have indicated they are self-quarantining and waiting for test results associated with our pre-arrival requirements. If your Deac got the STOP on SneezSafe because of their pre-arrival test and they are doing their required 14 day self-quarantine before coming to campus AND they are not sick/symptomatic, they do not need to be concerned they got a STOP.
If your student stopped getting the daily text message to complete their SneezSafe requirement and needs to begin again, they can re-enroll in the daily SneezSafe texts by emailing contact@sneezsafe.com and asking for instructions on how to be added.
Sorority recruitment is about to begin this weekend, and as a reminder it is all virtual this year (not in person). Young women going through this process have heard directly from the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life with all appropriate details.
For most of the Daily Deacdom, you have not been on campus in a loooooooong time. Here are some pictures of last January to help whet your whistle for Mother So Dear. We should have realized back in January 2020 that it was going to be a strange year, because we had both snow and a strangely warm snap that made the forsythia bloom, all in the same month.
