Fall Break is Coming: Submit Timesheets Early

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Fall Break is fast approaching. The Payroll Office will be closed during the break, and will be processing payroll early to ensure employees get paid on November 30, 2021.

This means timesheets for the November 7-21 pay period are due early.

Submit timesheets no later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, estimating your hours to be worked through November 21, 2021. If there are any changes from your estimated hours, please notify the Payroll Office when you return from Fall Break.

Supervisors, please make sure timesheets are approved no later than 5 p.m. on Thursday, November 18, 2021.

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Since the office is experiencing a high volume of email and voice messages, you can expect a response to your message within 24 hours of receipt.

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Doing What We Do Better: Climate Survey

Dear Staff and Faculty,

As Susan Ashley and I shared earlier this month, we are thinking about the ways we can gather valuable input from you to inform Project 2024 so we can do what we do at CC even better. An employee climate and engagement survey is an essential part of this process.

After consulting with the Staff Council chairs and the FEC, we decided to run the survey during Block 4. From Dec. 1-22, you’ll have the opportunity to share your thoughts, ideas, and feedback on what you like most about CC, what you think we could improve, and how we call on our strengths – as individuals and as an institution – to achieve our goals.

Why now? While many of you were here when the college completed climate surveys in 2013 and 2015, we have many new employees in every division in the college. This is a transitional moment at CC, with new leadership and the evolving nature of the pandemic providing us with new opportunities to do things differently. As a society, we are grappling with fundamental questions about racism and structural inequities. Some are questioning the liberal arts. I want to hear from you and understand how you feel about our campus climate and how you’re affected by these pivotal issues.

With your partnership, I hope to nurture a culture of transparency and empower us, as members of our CC community, to have powerful conversations about our priorities, our challenges, and what we need, in order to do what we do better.

Keep an eye out for additional messaging ahead of the survey’s opening date and follow-up messages throughout the month of December from our survey partner, ModernThink.

I sincerely thank you for your participation in this anonymous survey.

L. Song Richardson

President

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Fall Break Details and COVID Information Session

Dear Campus Community,

As we near the end of Block 3 and the start of Fall Break, we want to thank you for the continued adherence to our risk mitigation protocols and participation in our COVID-19 testing program. Your actions have enabled us to experience an in-person Fall Semester. Thank you for staying diligent.

We have brought together campus leaders to share details about where we are with positivity rates, testing, vaccinations, quarantine protocols, attending class, travel and student gathering policies, and accessing health services on campus, along with on-campus supports during Fall Break. The two of us, along with Rochelle Dickey, dean of students/vice president for student life, and Heather Horton, senior director of student health and well-being, share a wealth of information in the info session video at the end of this message.

Current COVID Stats
Since Monday, the Student Health Center has performed 1,477 COVID-19 tests, with lower positivity as the week progressed. Screening testing continues on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. All students who haven’t yet tested should schedule their test here. Our COVID-19 dashboard has been updated with the latest data for the CC community.

Fall Break COVID-19 Protocols

Please continue to participate in testing; it is critical in helping to keep our community safe and in protecting others.
Those students who do not cooperate with contact tracers or who do not adhere to travel protocols after receiving a positive test result will be referred to the Community Standards & Conduct process.
Students who receive positive test results this week may need to adjust their Fall Break travel plans as they will have to isolate for 10 days and may not travel, per the local health department’s requirements.

o The health department allows travel by personal vehicle if students travel home to isolate. The destination should not be farther away than what would require one tank of gas, limiting interaction and transmission.

o Students who travel home must continue and complete isolation there.

o Family members at the destination should be made aware of the risk of transmission.

Students who received a positive COVID test and who disregard isolation rules and travel by plane or public transportation can be put on a “No Board” list.
Every day, students in isolation will get a check from a COVID coordinator and daily meal/mail/prescription delivery continues over Fall Break. Students on campus will also have access to virtual and to-go activities from Campus Activities during the break.
Students who have not participated in testing since Nov. 1 will be contacted directly; if you have not been tested please sign up for a testing time as soon as possible. Testing times are available this Sat. and Sun., Nov. 13-14, noon-2 p.m.
The COVID Response Team will work with students on the process for exiting isolation over the break.
If you have received a positive COVID-19 test result and need to alter your travel plans and isolate on campus, the COVID Response Team will alert the Residential Experience Team. You’ll hear from your COVID coordinator and your RLC with more information.
All students are required to take a COVID-19 test after Fall Break. As announced previously, screening testing will be administered by eMed, a telehealth provider. We will send out more information soon.
Students who receive positive test results during Fall Break will follow our isolation protocols and should contact their Block 4 professor to discuss options.

Resources and Support
CC is a residential college and does not “shut down” during Fall Break. In a typical year, several hundred students stay on campus during the break.

Students staying on campus will have access to campus dining options, virtual activities and to-go kits, small-scale on-campus programming, and other supports. View the detailed Fall Break Digest from Campus Activities.

The Student Health Center will be open for normal hours through the end of Block 3, Wed., Nov. 17, (11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 8 a.m.-noon and 1-7:30 p.m. Monday- Wednesday), with limited hours Nov. 18 and 19 (noon-5 p.m.). Contact the SHC, (719) 389-6384, if you’re feeling sick. They will determine care and necessary testing.
Symptomatic Testing

o Beginning Saturday, Nov. 20, through Sunday, Nov. 28, students should contact the Optum Medical Center Point Urgent Care, (719) 636-2999, if they are experiencing symptoms or feeling unwell.

Asymptomatic Testing

o Asymptomatic testing is available prior to Fall Break at Boettcher Monday-Wednesday, Nov. 15-17 (8 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m.).

Feeling stressed or overwhelmed? The Wellness Resource Center provides many online resources to help manage anxiety and stress. The Counseling Center counselor-on-call and after-hours access to a mental health provider remain available during Fall Break.

Reduce the Risk
Remember, you can still carry the virus while not experiencing symptoms and take the infection home or elsewhere. This is why it is critical to isolate if you receive a positive test result. El Paso County and other parts of the country are experiencing high transmission. We are likely to encounter the virus when out and about, and we encourage everyone to continue wearing masks while indoors, wherever you are.

We encourage ALL members of the CC community to travel responsibly.

Please follow CDC guidance for domestic and internat ional travel during COVID. Depending on your destination and vaccination status, this may entail testing. Testing is available prior to Fall Break at Boettcher.
Test prior to departure to protect family members who may be more at risk of severe illness.
Do NOT travel or interact with others if you’re feeling unwell.
Get tested if you’re sick.
Avoid large gatherings and mask up indoors.
Get your COVID-19 booster shot.

We are grateful for our CC community and appreciate your support as we continue to navigate this pandemic together.

Sincerely,

Andrea Bruder

Chief Public Health Advisor to the President

Mateo Muñoz

Chair, COVID-19 Policy and Implementation Committee

Managing COVID-19 Information Session Video

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Save the Date: Block 4 Virtual First Mondays

Mark your calendar for the final First Mondays event of the Fall Semester. Monday, Nov. 29 at 11:15 a.m., start Block 4 together, virtually, with our 1M speaker.

What is innovation, anyway? Director of Creativity & Innovation Dez Stone Menendez ’00, explores that question and what it means to expand innovation beyond the commercial sphere to the cultural, social, and personal. She will share the philosophy and guiding principles behind the Creativity & Innovation initiative at CC.

This virtual First Mondays event will take place via Zoom. Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

The First Mondays Event Series is a campus-wide forum that aims to engage all members of the CC community, including students, staff, administrators, and faculty. The series creates opportunities for the whole community to gather, encouraging everyone to be part of the intellectual life of the college, and facilitating discourse among students, faculty, and staff, across courses, disciplines, and divisions. Classes are dismissed early on the first Monday of each block so that all may attend the First Mondays event.

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Creativity & Innovation Updates and Opportunities, Block 3, Week 3

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Updates & Opportunities
Block 3, Week 3

Block 4 First Monday Presentation
by
Director of Creativity & Innovation
Dez Stone Menendez ’00

Monday, November 29th, 2021
11:15 a.m.

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What is Innovation, Anyway?
Creativity & Innovation in Higher Education

In this talk, Dez Stone Menendez (’00), director of Creativity & Innovation, explores what it means to expand innovation beyond the commercial sphere to the cultural, social, and personal, and shares the philosophy and guiding principles behind the Creativity & Innovation initiative at CC. We are at a cultural moment in which challenges abound, socially, politically, economically. The world is more interdependent than ever before, and the challenges of the 21st century demand multilateral solutions that presently don’t exist. It is, therefore, critical that the current generation of college students is provided with robust opportunities to build the skills and attitudes they need to address these challenges. Although it is difficult to create a formula to prepare students for 21st century problems, there is a clear need for higher education to re-think how to help students access their own inner resources and develop the creative confidence to address areas that call out for new and radical solutions — to become changemakers in their own lives and in the world.

In keeping with CC’s history of challenging educational norms, Creativity & Innovation at CC takes a more radical approach to “innovation” than many of our peer institutions. Rather than building a stand-alone program on the edge of campus, we have taken a broader, more integrated approach by actively collaborating with faculty and co-curricular partners in all areas of the college to develop programs that help students learn to: navigate ambiguity, communicate across difference, build resilience, and move ideas into action. In this talk, Dez shares how Creativity & Innovation is working to amplify and support opportunities for students to develop the capacities that will prepare them to face the complex challenges – and unique opportunities — of our rapidly changing world.

Dez Stone Menendez (’00) started as the director of Creativity & Innovation at Colorado College in September 2016. She began working as a serial entrepreneur at age 22. The orienting principle of her work is to empower people to lead larger and more creative lives. Driven by a commitment to intuition and possibility, her experience is broad and varied: from building tiny homes and designing and manufacturing lifestyle products to incubating tech applications; there is no subject that Dez doesn’t find interesting. She founded the Possibility Room in 2009, which began as a startup incubator in Seattle focused on executing new businesses and expanding existing businesses. Dez believes that true innovation results from listening to your own unique knowing. She spends a lot of time thinking about how to cultivate containers that allow for this. She is more interested in questions than answers: What happens when we allow space for the unknown? What kind of freedom is available when we decide to be driven by values and intuition rather than convention? What is innovation, anyway?

Creativity & Innovation
Faculty & Staff Funding Opportunities

Creativity & Innovation offers two types of funding for faculty and staff: Creative Exploration Grants and Changemaker Collaboration Grants. Tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, lecturers, year-long visitors, and staff members are eligible to apply.

Our funding goals include:

Developing partnerships across divisions and disciplines that test and implement transformative practices in teaching, scholarship, outreach, and programming.
Integrating interdisciplinary thinking into classes and campus culture.
Moving theory into practice to engage faculty, staff, and/or students in applied problem-solving.
Exploring projects and activities that stimulate creativity and require risk-taking.
Developing and implementing anti-racist pedagogy and practices.

Creative Exploration Grants: Support smaller projects that allow faculty and staff members to explore a topic, process, or collaboration.

Individuals or teams may apply for up to $2,000 to support a project’s direct costs.
Grants are intended to support exploratory projects that do not presently have funding sources.
Projects that stimulate creativity and model productive risk-taking are encouraged.

Changemaker Collaboration Grants: Support teams of up to six to meet, dream, and plan for larger-scale projects that have the potential for transformative effects for faculty, staff, and students at Colorado College. Teams may comprise of all faculty, all staff, or a mix of both.

Applicant teams must comprise of at least two faculty and/or staff members representing different departments/programs. Teams of three or more members may include more than one representative from a single department or program.
Projects must engage students, faculty, and/or staff in applied problem-solving either within or outside of a class context.

Application deadlines for Creative Exploration and Changemaker Faculty & Staff Collaboration Grants for academic year 2021-2022:

Block Application Deadline           Awards Announced    Earliest Project Start Date
   4 Nov. 29, 2021                        Dec. 10, 2021                        Jan. 3, 2022
   5 Jan. 24, 2022                        Feb. 4, 2022                          Feb. 21, 2022
   6 Feb. 21, 2022                        March 4, 2022                      March 28, 2022
   7 March 28, 2022                    April 8, 2022                         April 25, 2022
   8 April 25, 2022                       May 6, 2022                          May 23, 2022

Creativity & Innovation holds regular information sessions about funding opportunities. The next session will take place at 4 p.m. January 12th, during Block J.
Join here: https://coloradocollege.zoom.us/my/jessicahunterlarsen

For more information and application materials visit:
https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/creativity-innovation/faculty-resources/grants-funding/index.html

Questions? Contact: Jessica Hunter, Associate Director of Creativity & Innovation
jhunter@coloradocollege.edu

Dynamic Half-Block

Innate Mindfulness: Exploring our Inner Ecology for Thriving on a Changing Planet

Instructor: Myra L. Jackson
Sponsored by Creativity & Innovation at CC
Email: mjackson@coloradocollege.edu
Dates: Jan. 11-21, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. MT each day. Hybrid format, in person when possible, virtual attendance available.
Registration is open.
To register: https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/careercenter/our-programs/non-credit-half-block.html

Course description: We all hold basic – although often unconscious – assumptions about the very nature of reality, including our relationship with what is commonly called “nature” or “the environment.” As well, we have assimilated a variety of sensorial habits or filters that affect the way we perceive the world. These assumptions – along with sensorial and cognitive habits – may influence our ability to perceive the problems we face and also limit our imagination, making it more difficult to conceive of a path toward ecological sustainability and social well-being. As Albert Einstein noted, “the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” We may need a new vision of reality, or even a new modality of consciousness – a more ecological worldview –to address our most urgent crises and to create a more just and sustainable human society. This experiential course is an introductory exploration into Mindfulness as innate within humans. Through it, students will discover the innate somatic sentient intelligence within every human that is the rudimentary basis of Mindfulness. In this workshop, exposure to one’s own sensorial doorways are utilized to open into the innate power within to explore the corresponding ecology within that connects every human to the ecosystems in which they live.

With Nature as a companion, students will learn strategies to skillfully work with thoughts, emotions, and sensations, while developing their capacity to enhance mind-body awareness of present-moment experience to enhance connections to self, community, and the Earth.

Learning Outcomes:

Gain insight into the current state of their innate mindfulness.
Appreciation for their body’s innate wisdom and inner resilience.
Learn ways to cultivate a practice that enables access to the benefits of concentrative focus that, once acquired, will provide enduring benefits for a lifetime.
Learn techniques to develop a healthy sense of self and safely explore emotions such as joy, kindness, equanimity, gratitude, and compassion for self and others while being with sadness, grief, loss, shame, pain, anger, and rage while recognizing their deep humanity.
Learn the power of applied mindful awareness in daily activities to improve communication with oneself, others, and Nature.
Experience the link between self-care, group-care and Earth-care.

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See You at In the Loop Next Week

Sent on behalf of the President’s Office and Staff Council:

The Block 3 In the Loop all-staff meeting is happening on Thursday, Nov. 18.

Come together with staff colleagues and hear updates from campus leadership.

Today is your LAST chance to submit good news, kudos, and questions to be answered during the question-and-answer period. You must submit your items by 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11.

Note this year’s location for In the Loop: Meet in Celeste Theatre inside Cornerstone Arts Center; the program will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. Grab-and-go breakfast will be available for pick-up in Cornerstone Main Space as you exit the meeting.

Those wishing to join the meeting via Zoom from their individual workspace may do so by registering in advance using this link. Feel free to swing by the main space between 9:30-10:30 a.m. to pick up breakfast.

In the Loop is a joint venture between Colorado College leadership and the Staff Council to facilitate communication and build community spirit among the staff at Colorado College. These meetings are your chance to directly connect with college leaders and other staff members on a regular basis.

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COVID-19 Update and Reminders

Dear Campus Community,

We are writing with an update regarding the additional COVID-19 screening testing that was implemented in response to the cluster of infections from Halloween weekend.

Current COVID Stats and What They Mean

The testing program is working and doing exactly what it was designed to do — help us to limit spread and return to baseline. On Tuesday, Nov. 9, the Student Health Center performed 459 tests, which yielded six positive results. The positivity rate has declined to 1.3% from 4.3% on Monday. If the current declining trend continues, we are on a very good trajectory.

Meals, mail, and prescriptions are being delivered to the 81 students currently in isolation and quarantine. Students in isolation/quarantine should reach out to their professors to discuss the need for support, adaptation, or assistance with their classes.

Testing

If you have already tested, thank you! All students living on campus and locally off-campus, regardless of vaccination status, are expected to participate in ongoing screening testing. If you have not yet tested since Nov. 1, please do so as soon as possible.

Contact Tracing

Contact tracing is a critical part of our layered mitigation system. Contact tracing data enables us to identify close contacts and prevent further transmission. We ask that you please continue to cooperate with our contact tracers.

Thus far contact tracing data show no indication of COVID-19 transmission in classrooms; our layered mitigation system, including vaccination, masking, and good ventilation, is in place and working.

Fully vaccinated students who were identified as close contacts should wear a mask when around others and get tested 5-7 days after the last known exposure. They can come to class so long as they have no symptoms; transmission from an asymptomatic person would be highly unlikely in that setting.

Next Steps

We will share detailed Fall Break guidance with the campus community tomorrow.

Thank you for continuing to follow all risk mitigation protocols and reduce your risk and the risk to others.

We are all in this together. Please remember to take care of yourself and support one another during this stressful time. We will do our part by keeping you informed.

Sincerely,

Andrea Bruder

Chief Public Health Advisor to the President

Mateo Muñoz

Chair, COVID-19 Policy and Implementation Committee

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Introducing Antiracism Commitment Committee

President L. Song Richardson has announced the new membership of the 16-member Antiracism Commitment Committee.

First shared in Fall 2019 and re-announced this fall, the committee will guide the work of the Antiracism Implementation Plan and support and hold each member mutually accountable in building a community that is more diverse, inclusive, and equitable.

“We continue to seek opportunities to generate meaningful feedback and impact from students, staff, and faculty representing the college community, to build an academic environment that values diversity, promotes an inclusive culture, and establishes a profound sense of belonging for each member of the college,” Richardson says. “The Antiracism Commitment Committee’s efforts will be guided by the Antiracism Implementation Plan, which will evolve from input from our community.”

The college’s diversity, equity, and inclusion team will lead the Antiracism Commitment Committee: Rosalie Rodriguez, senior associate dean of students, diversity, equity, and inclusion, Peony Fhagen, senior associate dean of equity, inclusion, and faculty development, and Eric Lee, assistant vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion for staff.

Committee member Ty Nagamatsu, estate settlement and gift planning officer in the Advancement Division, says she wanted to be involved because she believes the committee “will hold each of us individually accountable for the important systemic commitments we have publicly made.”

“Lawyers like to say that the law waxes slow and exceedingly fine. Similarly, MLK told us that ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’ This work will require patience, kindness, and time. As an institution, we must resist the urge to quickly check boxes to signify our completion of this work,” Nagamatsu says.

Another committee member, Luis David Garcia Puente, professor of mathematics and computer science, says CC’s Antiracist Commitment is central to its mission and its future, and that, “It is an honor and a serious responsibility to help our college succeed in this crucial endeavor.”

“A commitment of this magnitude and scope needs a body of people to oversee the work of our entire community as we enact its implementation plan,” he says. “We are not here to decide the paths to follow, but to serve our community to achieve its goals. Your input, your ideas, and concerns are fundamental in this process. Be engaged!”

The 2021-22 membership of the ACC committee is:

Advancement: Ty Nagamatsu
Academic: Luis David Garcia Puente and Amanda Udis-Kessler
Athletics: Jeff Conarroe
Communications: Felix Sanchez ’93
Enrollment Management: Pedro Ramirez
Finance and Administration: Amber Brannigan
Information Technology: Katharina Groves
Student Life: Rochelle Dickey ’83
Diversity and Equity Advisory Board, Co-Chairs: Anneke Bruwer and Neena Grover
Faculty Executive Committee: Nadia Guessous
Staff Council: Jennifer Golightly
CC Student Government Association: Misbah Lakhani ’24, Atquetzali Quiroz ’24, Surbhi Bhutani ’22, Jordan Fields ’24

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Message from the President

Dear CC Community,

Thank you for all you are doing as we live, learn, and work in the “new normal” amid COVID-19. Because of your vigilance, we are in person on campus, and we continue to do so as safely as possible. Even our Homecoming and Family Weekend activities, with many alumni and families on campus, were successful because we remained very careful.

It’s easy to become complacent when all is going well. But we can’t. The recent increase in students receiving positive test results stems from Halloween parties where students were indoors and unmasked. Unfortunately, because of the timing for quarantine and isolation, this means that some students won’t be able to travel for Fall Break.

Because of our protocols and procedures, we always know where we stand with COVID. Careful monitoring, quick response, and a highly vaccinated campus community that follows protocols allow us to continue to be in person and on campus. This will pass, and we will learn from it. This is what life looks like as we go forward.

Let’s all continue to do our part, not letting down our guard, and caring for our community.

Sincerely,

L. Song Richardson

President

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COVID-19 Update and Future Plans

Dear Campus Community,

Your vigilance in following our risk mitigation protocols and adhering to COVID-19 guidance has enabled us to continue classes and programming in-person, on campus. Thank you for all you’re doing to reduce the risk to yourself and others.

We continue responding to a rise in COVID-19 infections among CC students that occurred in connection with off-campus parties over Halloween weekend. This week, we are conducting additional screening testing to limit further transmission and reduce the risk to our community. Our Scientific Advisory Group and our national public health consultants at Crown & Company are analyzing the results and guiding our response.

Current COVID Stats and What They Mean
Between Nov. 1 and Nov. 7, the Student Health Center performed 1,140 tests, and 56 students received positive test results, with a spike occurring on Thursday, Nov. 4. In response we implemented additional screening testing and invited the two-thirds of the student body who had not recently tested to come in for testing, so that every CC student will have taken a test within one week. As of Monday evening, the Student Health Center had performed 534 tests, yielding 25 additional positive results.

What do Monday’s numbers mean? The testing program is working and helping us to limit further spread. As testing continues this week, initially we anticipate additional cases, followed by a decline and return to baseline. Students with positive test results are following isolation protocols. Meals, mail, and prescriptions are being delivered to students in isolation. The COVID-19 Response Team checks in daily with each student. Professors are in touch with students to discuss the need for support, adaptation, or assistance with their classes. Our full risk mitigation plan and COVID-19 dashboards are always available here.

Good News!
The good news is that we have no indication of COVID-19 transmission in classrooms; our layered mitigation system, including vaccination, masking, and good ventilation is in place and working. In that setting, people without symptoms are unlikely to transmit the virus.

Reduce Your Risk
When interacting off campus, we need to keep in mind that the decision about practicing public health measures is up to us. Given the currently very high levels of transmission in El Paso County, we are likely to encounter the virus when out and about. The virus spreads through the air through breathing (also known as aerosol transmission), and particularly in indoor spaces where aerosols tend to accumulate. We encourage everyone to continue wearing masks while indoors, both on and off-campus.

As we look ahead to Fall and Winter Break, we want to continue to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in our CC community and surrounding communities.

If you are symptomatic, students should contact the Student Health Center (employees should contact their health provider) and get tested:
            (719) 389-6384
            Monday-Friday:
            8 a.m.-noon and 1-7 p.m.
            Saturday & Sunday:
            11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Students who receive positive test results this week may need to adjust their Fall Break travel plans as they will have to isolate for 10 days and may not travel, per the local health department’s requirements.
Masking on campus will remain in place.
Limit your social interactions.
Classes will continue in person.
Both dine-in and takeout options are available at campus dining facilities. As always, we encourage students to make use of outdoor seating and limit time unmasked indoors. Take advantage of takeout options at Benji’s, the Preserve, and Susie B’s.
Social gatherings are limited to 10 people or less; students must continue using the party registration form.
Visitor and events policies apply as usual.
Organized campus activities may move forward as planned. No food for these activities indoors.

We are all in this together. Our campus community has worked to effectively mitigate the spread on campus. Masking, handwashing, testing when experiencing symptoms, and responsible social gatherings are all key pieces to managing risk during the ongoing pandemic. We encourage all community members to reflect on ways to make risk mitigation a part of everyday life — on campus and off campus — as we are learning to live responsibly during this pandemic.

Thank you for all your doing to support one another!

Andrea Bruder

Chief Public Health Advisor to the President

Mateo Muñoz

Chair, COVID-19 Policy and Implementation Committee

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