Today’s Daily Deac is a joint effort with my colleague Dr. James Raper, Assistant Vice President for Health and Wellbeing. Before we get to the meat of that, need to share some weather news. We are under a winter weather warning beginning tonight through […]
Today we had sunshine for the first time after days and days of cold rain. It is a welcome relief and is brightening the mood a little. I’m keeping my eye on the weather as there is some potential for late Wednesday/early Thursday. We should […]
Editor’s Note: following the publication of this Meet A Deac, the Learning Assistance Center was renamed the Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (CLASS) Wanted to start the week with a mention of a message we sent out Saturday night just to students […]
Continued encouraging news on the dashboard today. Let’s keep this trending in the right direction. Students got their issue of Your Corona Chronicle last night; read it here. One point to pull out – it talks about why the library and the Wellbeing […]
The COVID dashboard had some good news in fewer positive cases today; may that trend continue. Since I have been in nearly nonstop meetings, want to share a few of the questions we are getting in the Call Center in hope that it will […]
Last night we sent a message with lots of COVID updates to undergraduate students and their families; read it here. Today I want to share a handful of quick hit questions we’ve gotten in the Call Center/emails, etc.: Why was my declination of housing […]
Today is long – bear with me. We had a number of questions at the Call Center about students being moved around on campus to quarantine in place (QIP) and some shared their concern with having a QIP student sharing a bathroom with non QIP […]
We’re in the midst of a surge here, and I am in a lot of meetings around same, but want to share what I know. Here goes. Yesterday we published a new COVID update; read it here. Important points to note: We are urging […]
It has been a very long and busy day here, so bringing you what I know. With increasing numbers of undergraduate students moving into quarantine and isolation this week, the University has elected to give priority for hotel spaces and on-campus isolation rooms for students […]
A lot to digest today, friends. Let’s get right to it. Students and families received a message today about a surge in cases on our campus. We are taking measures to mitigate the spread, including: moving all dining to grab and go, enforcing the […]