{"id":1449,"date":"2020-04-24T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2020-04-24T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:34:06","slug":"recast-faculty-update-the-move-to-remote-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2020\/04\/recast-faculty-update-the-move-to-remote-for-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"RECAST | Faculty update: the move to remote for summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From:<\/strong>\nEamon, Kathleen <eamonk@evergreen.edu<\/a>>
Date:<\/strong> Apr 23, 2020, 5:07 PM -0700

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Dear Colleagues, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As President George\nBridges announced to our community today, Evergreen has made the decision that\nsummer instruction will be remote (with select possible exceptions). As the\ndean of summer curriculum, I wanted to communicate to the faculty as a whole in\nbroad strokes what this announcement means for summer operations. (If you are\nteaching this summer, you will get a more detailed email from me very soon,\nwith specific guidance and next steps.)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, all faculty\ncurrently slated to teach this summer will be asked to confirm that they want\nto teach some version of their offering in a remote modality.  If the\nanswer is yes, then they will be asked to revise their catalog description,\nfees, and schedule by May 1. For accreditation and development purposes, we\nwill ask all faculty teaching this summer to submit Alternate Instruction Plans\nbefore summer sessions begin.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our amazing Keep\nTeaching team, guided by Elizabeth Williamson and JuliA Metzker, are building a\nCanvas module to support designing for a remote learning environment. That\nmodule will be asynchronous and self-paced, and it will be supported by a\nseries of office hour\/drop-in Zoom conversations.  They hope to have that\ncourse up and available by mid-May, so stay tuned for that\nannouncement.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other institutional\nchanges that will help us accommodate this shift include a delayed summer and\nfall Academic Fair for the Olympia campus on May 27, corresponding with a\ndelayed registration period for summer and fall beginning June 1, 2020. \n(First year students will also register that week.) I also want to express\ngratitude for the role our incredible staff colleagues across all divisions\nhave played in our successes this spring, and the pivotal role they will play\nas this situation extends to encompass another quarter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be select\nexceptions to the remote-only directive, but very few.  These will be\ncomprised of selections from the approved summer curriculum made by area\nmanagers and the deans, with agreement of the faculty. We will select one or at\nmost two per facility, intended to serve as good test cases for each area. We\nneed a very controlled situation this summer in order to work through physical\ndistancing, cleaning, equipment and other protocols, and we thank in advance\nthe faculty members who have or will have agreed to step up and help us with\nthat work.  We hope that this will set the stage for a more expansive\nhybrid mode in fall, should conditions allow.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to thank you all\nfor the already amazing work you\u2019ve done to turn spring\u2019s curriculum around,\nand I hope that we greet these new challenges (opportunities) with equal\nenergy, grace, and investment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen Eamon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen Eamon |\nAcademic Dean for Evening & Weekend Studies and Summer School | The\nEvergreen State College | (360) 867-6850 | she\/her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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