As many of you know, we are drafting documents that will guide us as we ramp up research in the laboratories again. We have been requested to not share these documents generally since they are in draft form and they could change significantly before being released. We’ll get these out soon, but please be patient while we work through all the drafts.
Thanks to all of you who were able to attend last Friday’s VCEA Town Hall. If you weren’t able to make it, you can watch this Zoom video of the meeting.
If you’re like me, you’re probably finding this new remote workplace we are in to be both exciting and challenging at the same time. I know it has been difficult and stressful for many of you to adapt to this environment of social-distancing while balancing the demands of work with the needs of your families.
Congratulations on making it to week three of online teaching and week four of teleworking!
I continue to be impressed with our collective success in pulling off this transition relatively seamlessly. Yet, I know that many of us have been running on adrenaline and that that is beginning to wear thin.
Are any of you like me and finding yourself more exhausted at the end of the day / week when working or learning remotely versus being in your office or in the classroom? Well, I don’t know that I can solve that in one email, but Todd Vanek and I wanted to offer a few tips and tweaks to try to make it a little easier for you.
Voiland College would like to let you know starting Saturday April 4th the university will temporarily adjust its procedures for unlocking buildings on the Pullman campus. While the university remains open for business, only those buildings that are deemed essential to walk-in traffic will remain unlocked during regular building hours.
Congratulations on a successful first week in this bold new Zoom world!
In the space of a little over 10 days, we transitioned 453 sections of teaching courses to an online format. More than 300 staff, faculty, and teaching assistants took part in our Zoom training program over Spring Break to prepare, all the while moving themselves from their offices and classrooms to remote teaching locations.
Recognizing that COVID‑19 has upended all our lives, and that some students face challenges that could impact their grades, WSU has developed an emergency adjustment to grading deadlines and policies for undergraduate students in the spring 2020 term.
Our first full virtual week is almost in the books. Hopefully you are all doing well and managing the reality we find ourselves in. I need to share some important information with you all, so please read this in it’s entirety.