Here’s the mood from campus: it is very quiet with your students home for the semester. Students have done their part by taking their final exams and submitting final papers or projects, and right now our faculty are working on grading.
Faculty must report all fall semester grades to the Office of the University Registrar by noon tomorrow (Wednesday, Dec. 15), which means students can expect toview their fall semester final grades on Thursday, Dec. 16. They can do this in Degree Works.
I wanted to share a note from the Student Health Service about students who are submitting flu vaccine documentation in advance of our deadline tomorrow. Information about the flu requirement was sent to students in a number of messages (October 13, November 22, December 1, December 10, and today).
There is a high volume of documentation coming in, so it could take some time (48 hours or so) for our Student Health Service team to get them all entered. Students should use the self-service option in the Student Health Portal to check their vaccine documentation status:
The status of your vaccine documentation will be available in theStudent Health Portal under My Profile > Immun. History. If you see the flu/influenza vaccine or COVID booster listed (along with the date you received it) on your Immun. History page, this means that your documentation has been reviewed and accepted, and that you’re in compliance with the policies.
It is critically important that studentsNOT email the Student Health Service to ask if we received their documentation for the flu vaccine (or the COVID booster), because we need our SHS staff focused on verifying and entering vaccine information, rather than sending emails. So encourage your Deacs to wait a day or two after they first uploaded their documentation, THEN check the portal to see if their information has been uploaded.
Finally, there is some good news about Pilot Mountain, which had been on fire for some weeks. The fire has been contained, and parts of the park will begin reopening. Here is a great picture of Pilot Mountain at sunset – you can see its distinctive dome at the center-left of the picture – with the spire of Wait Chapel in the foreground. Beautiful.
