{"id":2409,"date":"2021-01-14T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2021-01-14T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:00:02","slug":"recast-update-on-covid-operations-planning-for-winter-and-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2021\/01\/recast-update-on-covid-operations-planning-for-winter-and-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Recast | Update on COVID operations planning for winter and spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From:<\/strong> Carmichael, John <br> <strong>Sent:<\/strong> Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:23 AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To:&nbsp;\nAll Staff &amp; Faculty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From:&nbsp;\nJohn Carmichael, VP for Finance and Operations, and David McAvity, Interim\nProvost and VP for Student and Academic Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most college operations in winter quarter are unchanged from\nfall quarter, with most teaching and services done remotely.&nbsp; We expect\nthis to continue at least through spring quarter.&nbsp; We are making a few\nsmall but important changes in winter quarter,&nbsp;to respond to needs and\ncontractual agreements. We are making these changes with consideration of\nhealth and safety and our capacity to support them. The COVID-19 health and\nsafety team continues to follow state and national guidance and to monitor\nindicators such local transmission rates and health verifications. We are\nprepared to adjust plans as needed as conditions change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We expect to add two areas of limited in-person student\nservice this quarter.&nbsp;&nbsp; Student Activities plans to&nbsp;provide a space\nin the CAB for a&nbsp;limited number of&nbsp;students who need a warm,\nwell-lighted place with good wi-fi to study. In addition, we continue to plan a\nBasic Needs Center to provide students with access to a food pantry and other\nessential supplies.&nbsp; COVID safety has been at the center of planning for\nthese services, and&nbsp;the COVID-19 team is coordinating with other users of\nthe CAB with these plans.&nbsp; Please look for further\ne-mail&nbsp;announcements about these new services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the EF language school, with whom the college\nhas a long standing contract to lease space on campus, will resume some hybrid\ninstruction this quarter, starting with a group of 15 students.&nbsp; The EF\nstaff have agreed to follow a stringent COVID safety protocol, including an\ninitial 14-day quarantine of students just as the college requires of new\nstudents in campus housing, daily health verifications, small class sizes,\nsocial distancing, etc. They have provided their own staffing to manage these\nprotocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Carmichael, John Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:23 AM To:&nbsp; All Staff &amp; Faculty From:&nbsp; John Carmichael, VP for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4996,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}