WEBVTT 95 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:14.070 Deb Sells: Good afternoon, parents, I think we have about 90 people joining us today, which is a little nerve wracking for us. 96 00:20:14.730 --> 00:20:24.120 Deb Sells: This is the first time we've done a webinar like this, so please be patient with us as we work through some of the technical glitches. 97 00:20:24.840 --> 00:20:30.420 Deb Sells: But our goal today is really just to try to provide as much additional information for you all, as we can. 98 00:20:31.050 --> 00:20:40.380 Deb Sells: Typically in a regular summer when we have customs for our students. I spend a lot of the two days of customs warehouse with the parents. 99 00:20:40.950 --> 00:20:47.220 Deb Sells: Talking about things that I have learned over the years about who your students are and how they tend to react to college. 100 00:20:47.820 --> 00:20:52.170 Deb Sells: I've shared some of that with you in the parents online customs. 101 00:20:53.070 --> 00:21:01.440 Deb Sells: That you've had the chance to look at from home. So I've talked with you already a little bit about how much we care about our students here on campus. We talked about 102 00:21:01.740 --> 00:21:08.790 Deb Sells: Whether or not. We're going to call you when they get in trouble. I talk to you a little bit about campus safety and how you can help them be successful. 103 00:21:09.060 --> 00:21:19.170 Deb Sells: So I'm not going to repeat all that today, and I know my staff who is with us here today is very happy that I'm not going to repeat all that because some summers they hear me say that 13 different times. 104 00:21:19.650 --> 00:21:27.270 Deb Sells: Instead, but we wanted to do was spend this hour trying to deal with some of the questions that you have. And so instead of me rattling on 105 00:21:27.780 --> 00:21:35.490 Deb Sells: We are going to be taking questions in the Q AMP, a portion of the zoom. So if you have questions that you haven't already submitted. 106 00:21:35.970 --> 00:21:45.120 Deb Sells: We want you to go ahead and submit those questions that I have a couple of folks out there watching the questions we will try to answer as many of them online. Now as we can. 107 00:21:45.570 --> 00:21:56.970 Deb Sells: And then if there are some that go unanswered. We're recording all of it and we will have someone from the staff get back with you with a specific answer to any question that we're not able to answer. 108 00:21:57.330 --> 00:22:06.510 Deb Sells: So I've got Sarah Sue deck, who's our dean of students who is going to help me by feeding me some of the questions that I need to answer for you. And she may help me answer some of them. 109 00:22:06.840 --> 00:22:24.900 Deb Sells: I have Lori with a row here you will come to know. LAURIE, AS aunt Lori and she's here to answer any questions related to the enrollment process. I've got a couple of secret helpers behind the scenes Tyler Henson and Lydia and Gina, who will also be answering some questions online so 110 00:22:26.760 --> 00:22:37.500 Deb Sells: We, we, if we're a little rattled. You should know that. Just before we started all this, we had a fire alarm in the building. And we had to dump the building. And so we were racing to get back in here and get online and time. 111 00:22:37.830 --> 00:22:45.690 Deb Sells: To be able to talk to all of you. So now that we have had a minute to collect our breath. We'll go ahead and we'll get started with some questions, Sarah. Where do they need us to start today. 112 00:22:46.320 --> 00:22:53.940 Deb Sells: We've got several questions about the collegiate experience and how we're going to transition students not just academically but socially okay so 113 00:22:54.240 --> 00:23:00.660 Deb Sells: I hope you can hear that, that question is, what's it going to be like outside of the classroom. This fall when students come back to campus. 114 00:23:00.990 --> 00:23:10.590 Deb Sells: This is without a doubt a single strangest year in my 30 some year career working with your students at colleges and universities around the country. 115 00:23:11.040 --> 00:23:20.880 Deb Sells: Never have we been through this kind of situation where we are dealing with major health and safety issues at the same time that we're dealing with all the issues that come with having 116 00:23:21.630 --> 00:23:32.070 Deb Sells: A group of young people start a university experience. So we are very aware probably no one on campus is more aware than my staff is of how important the out of classroom experience is for your students. 117 00:23:32.580 --> 00:23:37.800 Deb Sells: University has two goals. And if you're out there on the parents Facebook page. You've heard me say this before. 118 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:46.020 Deb Sells: Our primary goal is a health and safety of your students, our faculty and staff that we keep the community safe and healthy. So our primary goal. 119 00:23:47.010 --> 00:23:49.860 Deb Sells: Our secondary goal is that we want to stay open this fall. 120 00:23:50.670 --> 00:23:59.010 Deb Sells: We did what we needed to do, just like every other university in March to make sure that we transition so that students could finish the semester online. 121 00:23:59.280 --> 00:24:03.660 Deb Sells: But it is our preference, not to have to be entirely online this fall. And so we are 122 00:24:04.230 --> 00:24:13.050 Deb Sells: protecting the health and safety of our students, faculty and staff because we care about their health and safety, but also because it is the key to us being able to keep the campus open this fall. 123 00:24:13.590 --> 00:24:19.500 Deb Sells: So things are going to look different at the same time that we know how important the student development experience is 124 00:24:20.040 --> 00:24:32.700 Deb Sells: We have to balance that with how do we keep them safe. So all of the staff and student affairs my division are working hard this summer to try to rethink how do we provide the same kind of learning. 125 00:24:33.450 --> 00:24:41.460 Deb Sells: And experience for your students and do it. Maybe in a different format that will be somewhat more safe, given what we know about large gatherings. 126 00:24:41.730 --> 00:24:51.990 Deb Sells: And how they can become hotbeds for the spreading of the virus. So we just had some time together this morning talking about our welcome back activities in the fall, for instance, and how do we 127 00:24:52.260 --> 00:24:59.070 Deb Sells: Accomplish some of the same things we know we need to accomplish like having your students get to know the campus layout feel 128 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:09.600 Deb Sells: Feel confident about their ability to locate themselves on campus. How do we provide those kinds of activities in a way that it's not 3000 new freshmen I'll pack together. 129 00:25:10.230 --> 00:25:16.170 Deb Sells: In an auditorium breathing on each other. So we're working through those issues. I expect that you can 130 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:23.850 Deb Sells: Know that there will be more small group activities. This fall, rather than great big all University activities. 131 00:25:24.630 --> 00:25:34.050 Deb Sells: There will be more outdoor activities than indoor activities, there will be more activities broken down by academic college or by residence hall and floor. 132 00:25:34.470 --> 00:25:43.770 Deb Sells: And we'll be looking at how do we manage those kinds of events in a way that reduces numbers reduces density, but still creates that experience. 133 00:25:44.070 --> 00:25:48.960 Deb Sells: We also are aware that some of our students that I can hear you guys talking about it on the Facebook page. 134 00:25:49.260 --> 00:25:53.670 Deb Sells: Some of your students are making the decision that they're going to take all of their classes online. 135 00:25:53.940 --> 00:25:58.020 Deb Sells: Some of our students are deciding that for one semester they think this year. They're going to live at home. 136 00:25:58.260 --> 00:26:07.590 Deb Sells: Take all their classes online. So, we will also transition. Some of our activities into online format so that if your student is staying home in Memphis or staying home in Knoxville. 137 00:26:07.980 --> 00:26:17.310 Deb Sells: staying home out of state for a semester taking their classes online that there will still be some ways for them to be able to participate and get to know the other students on our campus so 138 00:26:18.450 --> 00:26:26.280 Deb Sells: People in my division. This is the very most important thing to us. And so, I promise you that we will be looking for ways that are new and different 139 00:26:26.790 --> 00:26:40.410 Deb Sells: And you know, it's not an easy thing to shift. What we have always done every year into a new format. And so we're really working with the staff to help them rethink how do we get at the core learning that needs to happen. 140 00:26:41.130 --> 00:26:47.550 Deb Sells: In terms of their student development and do it in a way that looks a little different than it has looked in the past there. Another question, Sarah. 141 00:26:49.110 --> 00:26:51.120 Deb Sells: Got questions about 142 00:26:52.650 --> 00:26:56.070 Deb Sells: Our things. Are folks going to be required to wear masks. 143 00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:06.510 Deb Sells: During especially when we're doing social distancing activities and events. Okay, so there are some questions. Apparently, about the specific social distancing kinds of guidelines that will be in place. 144 00:27:06.990 --> 00:27:09.660 Deb Sells: We are still working through the details of those 145 00:27:09.990 --> 00:27:18.360 Deb Sells: I posted the other day on the website something. My mom used to say to me when I was a little girl and I would ask her if I had permission to do something, and she would often say to me. 146 00:27:18.630 --> 00:27:24.090 Deb Sells: If you have to have an answer right now. The answer is no. But if you let me think about it until tomorrow that answer may change. 147 00:27:24.420 --> 00:27:31.860 Deb Sells: I think about that a lot. Right now, because if I had to give an answer to those questions right now. It would be a much more conservative 148 00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:43.020 Deb Sells: Answer most likely because we just don't know enough yet. But we still have some eight weeks before the school year starts and the conditions on the ground in terms of the virus are changing week by week 149 00:27:43.800 --> 00:27:52.980 Deb Sells: We are looking at the issue of wearing face coverings. We all have our own little bucket of face coverings here that we're wearing on campus and 150 00:27:53.970 --> 00:28:01.590 Deb Sells: So I expect that students will have some expectation that they will be required to wear face coverings at least inside the classrooms. 151 00:28:02.250 --> 00:28:09.810 Deb Sells: Perhaps not in other locations, but we don't know that for sure yet, there will be some limits on how many people can gather at a particular time. 152 00:28:10.500 --> 00:28:15.540 Deb Sells: In a particular size space. So part of the work that's happening right now in terms of that. 153 00:28:16.470 --> 00:28:27.540 Deb Sells: Re reconfiguring of the academic calendar is we are taking classes and putting them inside bigger classroom so that students can sit further apart from one another. We're going to be working on all those issues. 154 00:28:28.170 --> 00:28:35.280 Deb Sells: So I promise you that by the time we get to August will have more definitive kinds of answers for you, but we hesitate a little bit 155 00:28:35.610 --> 00:28:46.470 Deb Sells: About giving you absolutes right now because Absolutes are only as good as this week's report from the CDC and then we'll have to wait and see again and make some adjustments. So if you can be patient with us. 156 00:28:46.830 --> 00:28:53.610 Deb Sells: And know that we're going to make the very best decisions. We can and give you enough time to be able to adapt to those decisions. 157 00:28:54.030 --> 00:29:06.720 Deb Sells: Before we get to the August opening of the school year. Okay. Another question several questions about academics and classes or what does it remote remote mean, which I'm assuming also means hybrid and on ground. 158 00:29:07.140 --> 00:29:08.820 Deb Sells: So can you talk a little bit about 159 00:29:09.300 --> 00:29:22.590 Deb Sells: Sounds like nations for prices. So we've been doing a lot of work around the mode of the have a class. How is that class going to be taught. I've got Lori weather out here with us and I think maybe she's probably better able to answer that question that I am Lori. 160 00:29:22.860 --> 00:29:29.790 Deb Sells: You're talking about web assisted courses hybrid courses remote courses and online courses. Can you tell us what the difference is. 161 00:29:30.420 --> 00:29:34.020 Aunt Laurie : I'll give it a shot and Tyler Hansen is also 162 00:29:34.380 --> 00:29:36.480 Aunt Laurie : Answering questions by 163 00:29:37.350 --> 00:29:42.510 Deb Sells: Typing so I get anything wrong. He's gonna fix it for me. So let me take 164 00:29:43.650 --> 00:29:47.940 Aunt Laurie : Courses are going to be the wave of social distance within the classroom. 165 00:29:49.410 --> 00:30:02.490 Aunt Laurie : Excellent an online course will also be the online course has been there's an online platform that you would log into your instruction there. It's called asynchronous, which means 166 00:30:02.670 --> 00:30:04.170 Aunt Laurie : You're not all reading 167 00:30:04.260 --> 00:30:05.190 Aunt Laurie : Posts at the same 168 00:30:05.280 --> 00:30:05.940 Aunt Laurie : Time, you're not 169 00:30:05.970 --> 00:30:09.510 Aunt Laurie : talking to one another in sync with one another. 170 00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:10.350 So, 171 00:30:13.020 --> 00:30:15.060 Aunt Laurie : Your instructor will certainly case you and 172 00:30:15.060 --> 00:30:15.840 Deb Sells: You've got mine. 173 00:30:16.500 --> 00:30:20.610 Deb Sells: But you'll read discussions and participate in discussions. 174 00:30:20.670 --> 00:30:23.790 Aunt Laurie : In your own time road is a little different. 175 00:30:23.820 --> 00:30:25.350 It's sort of a combination 176 00:30:27.330 --> 00:30:29.790 Aunt Laurie : And it's sort of born out of what we learned in 177 00:30:29.790 --> 00:30:33.240 Aunt Laurie : The spring when we had our own ground courses. 178 00:30:33.420 --> 00:30:45.900 Aunt Laurie : Convert online in our instructors wanted to continue to do lectures and discussions with students, sort of face to face over the web. So the remote classes will have a meeting time 179 00:30:46.440 --> 00:31:01.800 Aunt Laurie : And during that meeting time you're going to meet via zoom or some other manner of instruction and you will get direct instruction from your teacher and be able to interact with other members of the class web assisted and hybrid classes. 180 00:31:03.630 --> 00:31:15.330 Aunt Laurie : Or a little bit on ground and a little bit online and maybe even some remote instruction. It's they're definitely just a combination of all those modes of teaching. So you may have 181 00:31:15.900 --> 00:31:27.060 Aunt Laurie : One day a week, for example, that you would be in a classroom and then another day of the week that you would be doing some web assistant or online instruction. 182 00:31:27.510 --> 00:31:36.090 Aunt Laurie : So that's in the difference between hybrid and web assistant is the amount of time that you're in the classroom. So those are very similar. 183 00:31:37.050 --> 00:31:38.280 Deb Sells: Great. Thanks, Lori. 184 00:31:39.420 --> 00:31:54.390 Deb Sells: Other questions, if we have students who have back to back classes and class one classes on ground and the next classes online are there. Will there be a place that students can access online services to for that particular class. Yes, I've seen that question on 185 00:31:54.990 --> 00:31:59.400 Deb Sells: Facebook page from parents, we are expecting that our computer labs will be open. 186 00:31:59.670 --> 00:32:12.420 Deb Sells: And so students will be able to go to a computer lab and log on and be able to work on a class in there. I'm going to suggest that if they do that they bring with them headphones with the microphone so that they will be able to do that privately. 187 00:32:13.080 --> 00:32:24.810 Deb Sells: Since they'll be a group in there. Many of our students this spring came back to campus to do their online classes and they I saw them everywhere. I saw them sitting outside at picnic tables. I saw them inside. 188 00:32:25.380 --> 00:32:29.970 Deb Sells: Buildings in some of the lounges, they tend to find the places they're most comfortable 189 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:39.900 Deb Sells: A lot of our students a surprising number for an old lady like me a lot of our students did their classes on their phones. So they just were wherever they were working on their phones. 190 00:32:40.410 --> 00:32:52.890 Deb Sells: But there will be a consideration given to that our God. Our vice president for ITV Bruce Petrie Shack is working through those issues now about how do we have enough bandwidth to be able to make that happen for our students this fall. 191 00:32:54.150 --> 00:32:58.350 Deb Sells: And other question, Sarah. We're giving Sarah a workout because she's running between two computers. 192 00:32:59.430 --> 00:33:12.330 Deb Sells: Sort of a tricky question. If we have a freshman who living on campus, who's taking web assistant classes and obviously living on campus. Is it worth them living on campus to take web assistant glasses. 193 00:33:13.410 --> 00:33:20.190 Deb Sells: That's a really good question. That's a question I think every family is going to have to answer for themselves. 194 00:33:21.360 --> 00:33:25.080 Deb Sells: And there's not a one size fits all. So for some students 195 00:33:25.770 --> 00:33:36.450 Deb Sells: It wouldn't it wouldn't be a good value to pay to live on campus and take all of their classes online, they can do that at home, and for some families. That's going to be a very logical decision to make. 196 00:33:36.810 --> 00:33:45.990 Deb Sells: For others of our students part of the experience of going to college is leaving home and beginning to develop the independence of living on their own. 197 00:33:46.320 --> 00:33:51.870 Deb Sells: And I do know that in a regular year where there is no coronavirus we have lots and lots of our students. 198 00:33:52.080 --> 00:33:58.080 Deb Sells: Who are taking some of their classes online. Some of theirs in their classroom and they're living on campus in residence halls. 199 00:33:58.320 --> 00:34:06.780 Deb Sells: And they do that because more and more students are coming out of high school, having had online classes and they like. They like the independence of them, they like being able to work at their own pace. 200 00:34:07.140 --> 00:34:19.230 Deb Sells: And so it's not unusual for students to be living here and doing online classes, we found that for a number of our students in the spring semester when we had to close the university in March. 201 00:34:19.860 --> 00:34:27.390 Deb Sells: They needed to stay nearby they needed to stay on campus or in a nearby apartment because they needed to be able to have access to the Wi Fi. 202 00:34:27.900 --> 00:34:32.880 Deb Sells: To be able to do their work. They're not from a hometown where broadband is really very strong 203 00:34:33.150 --> 00:34:37.500 Deb Sells: And I'm going to guess at some of the students are going to need access to things like the library. 204 00:34:37.740 --> 00:34:49.350 Deb Sells: If they're taking labs are going to be able to need to get into the labs and those sorts of things. So I wish there was an easy answer to that Sarah, there's not, but it's going to be something I think every family is going to have to think about very carefully. 205 00:34:50.370 --> 00:35:01.980 Deb Sells: Because I couldn't hear you when you started. Did you remind everybody that we are going to be gathering all these questions and the ones that we don't answer a day able to respond to their wants to make sure you know that if we don't get to your question. 206 00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:04.500 Deb Sells: We will answer all of your questions. 207 00:35:04.500 --> 00:35:06.420 Deb Sells: Individually after this is over. 208 00:35:06.510 --> 00:35:10.440 Deb Sells: To give us a couple of days to be able to get it into the computer and get them all answered. 209 00:35:11.190 --> 00:35:17.880 Deb Sells: Some folks may have already been able to answer these questions based upon what you already said, but we have a number of questions about will 210 00:35:18.150 --> 00:35:27.030 Deb Sells: gyms and the rec center be open and be usable. Will there be changes in the way food service assembling as well. Yes. So again, 211 00:35:27.810 --> 00:35:38.160 Deb Sells: The questions about other facilities that are available on campus. Some of that is going to have to be determined as we get a little bit closer to the opening of the school year. But at this point, our staff has all been instructed 212 00:35:38.490 --> 00:35:48.750 Deb Sells: And we are planning that all of our buildings are going to open for us the library will be open for us the student rec center obviously Student Health all of our facilities are intending to be open. 213 00:35:49.200 --> 00:35:58.680 Deb Sells: What we will be doing, though, is working within those facilities to try to create as much social distance as we can to keep students safe. So there will be, for instance, I expect 214 00:35:59.100 --> 00:36:06.000 Deb Sells: Designated entrance doors and designated exit door so that people aren't passing one another in a tight entryway 215 00:36:06.570 --> 00:36:17.670 Deb Sells: There are going to be places where we take out some of the furniture, so that the couches aren't all right up on top of each other and students sitting really close together. We're going to move them apart a little bit 216 00:36:17.970 --> 00:36:27.000 Deb Sells: In the dining facilities will be moving dining areas further apart, I fully expect that there will be three or four students sitting at a table, having a meal together. 217 00:36:27.540 --> 00:36:31.890 Deb Sells: But we won't have 12 students sitting at a table, having a meal together and we won't have 218 00:36:32.220 --> 00:36:47.190 Deb Sells: Three sitting at this table and 18 inches away three more sitting at the next table, things will just be feeling a little more spacious and spread out this fall. And that's going to be important. There may be some small facilities within a larger facility that we close 219 00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:48.960 Deb Sells: The big questions we're having to deal 220 00:36:48.960 --> 00:37:01.590 Deb Sells: With right now are the questions of our swimming pools and the question of our climbing wall which, as you can imagine, would be a really hard thing for us to clean in between every user. And so we're having to deal with some of those 221 00:37:02.190 --> 00:37:13.320 Deb Sells: Smaller more specific issues and we'll know more as we get a little closer. But our goal at this point is that as much as possible. All of the facilities of the university will be open. 222 00:37:14.640 --> 00:37:26.820 Deb Sells: In order to get into these facilities, you need your blue ID and we have several questions about the blue ID, do we know when they will be issued. And I don't know if you are already can answer those questions, or when the ID office is open and available. 223 00:37:27.060 --> 00:37:32.850 Deb Sells: Right, so getting your blue ID is usually a part of what we do when you're on campus for orientation. 224 00:37:33.120 --> 00:37:44.370 Deb Sells: And I don't believe that office is open now I'm looking at Lori and Lori shaking your head no. So those offices are not open at this point we will build that into the schedule. So part of what we're working on right now is 225 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:58.950 Deb Sells: The opening days of the fall semester and and how do we have to re approach. What we have typically done to open the campus to create time and space for these activities that typically would have been done during the spring. So for instance, we 226 00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:07.560 Deb Sells: It as a part of customs orientation we give tours of campus if if none of our new students have had a Turia we've got to build that into how we open the fall 227 00:38:07.980 --> 00:38:18.360 Deb Sells: They always get their blue IDs made we're gonna have to build that into the fall. So we know they need that will make sure they get that, but I can't tell you yet how we're going to do that. 228 00:38:18.780 --> 00:38:26.340 Deb Sells: We have to figure that out as a part of how we're going to be opening up the campus. Which leads us probably Sarah to the question of, what else do I know about 229 00:38:26.700 --> 00:38:30.000 Deb Sells: Opening the campus. So I'll tell you that we're working on that right now. 230 00:38:30.600 --> 00:38:39.360 Deb Sells: In the years past, we have typically opened the residence halls on a Friday had people move in on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then classes have begun on Monday. 231 00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:47.970 Deb Sells: In terms of managing the density of campus and the amount of people that are going to be trying to use elevators and the residence halls and stairwells, and the residence halls. 232 00:38:48.270 --> 00:38:53.400 Deb Sells: We really are going to want to spread that out a little bit. So I'm meeting with the housing staff and Sarah now. 233 00:38:53.820 --> 00:39:01.410 Deb Sells: Will be working that out in the next couple of weeks and then we'll begin to communicate with families, but you can expect that we're going to ask 234 00:39:01.860 --> 00:39:07.830 Deb Sells: Students to limit the numbers of guests that they bring to help them to move in. We know that they're going to need helpers. 235 00:39:08.370 --> 00:39:16.080 Deb Sells: But they probably need one or two helpers, this will not be the year where it will make health sense for us to have entire families. 236 00:39:16.380 --> 00:39:22.890 Deb Sells: plus and plus grandmas and grandpas, plus all the siblings coming to help with a move. And so we're going to ask you to really select 237 00:39:23.190 --> 00:39:25.650 Deb Sells: One or two people to come and help your student move in. 238 00:39:25.890 --> 00:39:35.040 Deb Sells: We're going to do it over a greater number of days. So we'll have more information about that, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if we start moving on Wednesday or Thursday, instead of waiting till Friday. 239 00:39:35.430 --> 00:39:43.650 Deb Sells: We're going to give you a sign times to move in, so that we don't have everybody clumping up at one time and filling a lobby with a whole lot of people in very close quarters. 240 00:39:43.950 --> 00:39:50.370 Deb Sells: So more to come on that, but we will be getting that information out in plenty time for you to do your planning for fall 241 00:39:51.270 --> 00:39:59.160 Deb Sells: Questions about early arrivals and in particular the fans do we have any information so that from some questions about groups that typically come on 242 00:39:59.370 --> 00:40:05.910 Deb Sells: On campus early on, Dr. Craig Cornish and the folks that work with our band of blue one of my favorite programs on campus. 243 00:40:06.210 --> 00:40:18.780 Deb Sells: They make those decisions and I haven't had them communicate with me yet. So that's an I don't know. We'll keep you posted there is a band of blue Facebook page for band parents and you may want to be checking on that page as well. 244 00:40:19.500 --> 00:40:32.940 Deb Sells: Because I know that they will post some information there as well. But typically students get an email directly from the band office with information about moving onto campus in time for band camp and I just don't have that yet. Sorry. Sarah their questions. 245 00:40:35.640 --> 00:40:44.040 Deb Sells: Question about what's happening. Most students are gone into their psychology golden done. Oh, what has what has kept us busy this summer. Yes. So we've been building the new 246 00:40:44.310 --> 00:40:51.240 Deb Sells: classroom building on the student Facebook pages. There are a lot of questions about my schedule says that my 247 00:40:52.110 --> 00:40:55.410 Deb Sells: Classes in classroom building and I don't know what that is. That is 248 00:40:55.680 --> 00:41:06.030 Deb Sells: Because we haven't named that building yet, but it's the new behavioral and Health Sciences Building, it'll be the home of the college or the Department of Psychology criminal justice and social work. 249 00:41:06.270 --> 00:41:10.230 Deb Sells: It's a beautiful new building directly across from the Student Union. 250 00:41:10.470 --> 00:41:18.930 Deb Sells: It is on schedule to finish. We do have classes scheduled to be there this fall. So if your student is studying in any of those three areas, psychology, social work. 251 00:41:19.200 --> 00:41:27.780 Deb Sells: Or criminal justice, they're going to be the very first new occupants of a new building on campus and it's gorgeous. We've also been really busy this summer, Sarah. 252 00:41:28.290 --> 00:41:36.510 Deb Sells: Very much in the thick of it as we have worked on remodeling two of our major dining centers on campus. So we're doing actually 253 00:41:36.870 --> 00:41:51.120 Deb Sells: A swap of dining facilities and we're doing it because we need to get the right size facility for the right number of users. So in the past, some of you know McCauley wasn't all you can eat dining hall primarily for residential students 254 00:41:52.170 --> 00:41:57.510 Deb Sells: The KFC grill was a retail outlet with many of our name brand kinds of 255 00:41:58.680 --> 00:42:11.370 Deb Sells: Offerings there chick fil a pizza hut and so on because of the space the footprint of the space. We are swapping those because we have more retail customers than we do all you can eat dining customers. 256 00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:19.140 Deb Sells: And the McCauley spaces larger. So we're going to move the retail operation out of the KFC grill into a brand new. 257 00:42:19.710 --> 00:42:30.720 Deb Sells: Totally remodeled area in McCauley and we're going to take the all you can eat dining venue that was in the Kelly and that's going to come over here and be just a few steps outside my door here in the KC 258 00:42:31.170 --> 00:42:37.560 Deb Sells: So those areas are completely under renovation now they've been gutted back to the walls and they're being rebuilt back out. 259 00:42:37.860 --> 00:42:47.760 Deb Sells: I think it was probably the construction project that set off the fire alarm that sent me out of here at a quarter to quarter to two today, but we expect that they will be open and ready to go for fall 260 00:42:49.920 --> 00:43:06.720 Deb Sells: leads to questions about parking on campus. And so we can freshman park on campus and how do they get performance. Okay, so that's always a question that parents have can freshmen have cars on campus. They can should 261 00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:14.070 Deb Sells: Freshmen have cars on campus. That's a question every family needs to deal with on their own. 262 00:43:14.460 --> 00:43:21.180 Deb Sells: Some students are highly responsible and have a real need for a car and it makes all sorts of sense for them to bring one 263 00:43:21.540 --> 00:43:30.090 Deb Sells: Some freshmen are less so. And you might spend some time worrying about who they have lent their car to or where they have gone in the car. 264 00:43:30.450 --> 00:43:37.980 Deb Sells: And so you guys are going to need to work that through yourselves as to whether or not having your freshman have a car is a good idea or not. 265 00:43:38.730 --> 00:43:45.660 Deb Sells: If your freshman does bring a card campus. Yes, they can park. If they're living on campus in the residence halls. There are designated read lots 266 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:54.030 Deb Sells: That are for students who live on campus. If your student is commuting living off campus, then they will park in what we call the green lot 267 00:43:54.750 --> 00:44:01.410 Deb Sells: They will get their new parking decals when they come for moving weekend or moving week however long that's going to take 268 00:44:01.680 --> 00:44:12.240 Deb Sells: If your student is a returner have them check the back of their existing parking pass because there's an expiration date on it and they may not need a new one. It may still be good for them. So not every student needs to pick up 269 00:44:12.630 --> 00:44:17.010 Deb Sells: A new parking decal just students who have never had one before typically is all that needs them. 270 00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:28.590 Deb Sells: And we will be having some conversations. This summer with our staff in parking and transportation to talk about what are the needs for the campus going to be 271 00:44:28.890 --> 00:44:38.040 Deb Sells: This fall, and how will they be different than maybe they have been in other falls, obviously we have fewer students living on campus. This fall, as we've gone to all private rooms. 272 00:44:38.340 --> 00:44:47.520 Deb Sells: So there'll be less demand for some of the residential parking lots, and we're going to need to make some decisions, then, about which of those do we begin to open up for other folks to park in 273 00:44:48.060 --> 00:44:51.120 Deb Sells: If we have more students than usual taking online classes. 274 00:44:51.540 --> 00:44:58.200 Deb Sells: Or some kind of web assistant class, which means they're not on campus, every day of the week for every one of their classes like they have in the past. 275 00:44:58.500 --> 00:45:04.770 Deb Sells: That will also lighten up some of the demand for some of the commuter locks. So we're going to take a look at how 276 00:45:05.430 --> 00:45:11.760 Deb Sells: The residence hall assignments work out here in the next couple of weeks and then we'll take a look at how many students end up signing up 277 00:45:12.180 --> 00:45:21.180 Deb Sells: For online classes versus classes that will be eating here on ground and then we'll be working with parking and transportation to try to make good decisions about which lets need to be relatable. 278 00:45:23.700 --> 00:45:36.210 Deb Sells: Because it has been previously communicated that we're going to try to wrap up on ground classes or online classes prior or by Thanksgiving questions coming up. If my student isn't going to be there and December, are we giving them refunds for meal plans and housing. 279 00:45:36.600 --> 00:45:45.120 Deb Sells: We are not giving refunds free meal plans and housing, because they are going to be available to your student, even if they choose not to be here. So you're going to need to make decisions. 280 00:45:45.450 --> 00:45:51.390 Deb Sells: And now's the time to be making them about what's a good value for your family and what makes sense for your family to do 281 00:45:51.780 --> 00:46:01.530 Deb Sells: So given what you know now about what the semester is going to look like you're going to want to make a good decision for what's the best value for your family in the spring we did make some refunds. 282 00:46:01.980 --> 00:46:10.440 Deb Sells: But that was primarily because nobody was able to plan for that that came out of the blue, having to shut down, nobody was prepared for it. And we were all scrambling 283 00:46:11.220 --> 00:46:20.550 Deb Sells: To try to address the virus issue and keep students safe. But as we go into the fall, we've tried to be as transparent as we know how to be 284 00:46:20.790 --> 00:46:28.890 Deb Sells: We've tried to make sure that everybody understands what the parameters are that we're working with. And then you guys can need to make good decisions about that. 285 00:46:31.680 --> 00:46:34.950 Deb Sells: She said not giving me any break. She's coming with another question. Yes, Sarah. 286 00:46:36.180 --> 00:46:42.270 Deb Sells: And the next question about enforcement and how will you enforce social distancing requiring 287 00:46:43.530 --> 00:46:57.270 Deb Sells: I told Sarah to only give me easy questions and she's bringing hard one. So I'm gonna have to talk to her after this is over. You can say, next question. And I got one for the question was about enforcement. How are we going to enforce some of these social distancing guidelines. 288 00:46:58.500 --> 00:47:04.440 Deb Sells: Luckily, we still have eight weeks to figure some of that out. We're going to impart 289 00:47:05.550 --> 00:47:10.860 Deb Sells: Spend a lot of time educating students about why these social distancing requirements are important. 290 00:47:11.220 --> 00:47:17.070 Deb Sells: One of the things that Laurie and I saw as we watched the student Facebook pages in March and April. 291 00:47:17.310 --> 00:47:27.660 Deb Sells: Was we saw student after student after students saying I didn't realize how much I love campus until I had to leave it and I miss it so much. I want to be back on campus. We just heard that. 292 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:34.710 Deb Sells: Dozens and dozens and dozens of times. But part of what we're going to be communicating with students as a part of the educational process is 293 00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:46.890 Deb Sells: If you love being on campus, then you have to help us keep campus safe. The only way we can keep campus open is if we keep the number of students who are becoming ill very low. 294 00:47:47.520 --> 00:47:52.260 Deb Sells: If that number starts to creep up, we will have to reconsider whether or not we can be open. 295 00:47:52.650 --> 00:48:04.680 Deb Sells: And as a part of that, if we find that students are simply not willing to live within the social distancing guidelines that may be a part of our consideration as to whether or not we feel safe keeping campus open if we see 296 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:16.710 Deb Sells: Rampant non compliance that's going to have to cause us to rethink whether or not this is a safe place to keep open and whether or not we need to go to all online. So we're going to be talking with students about that. 297 00:48:17.250 --> 00:48:21.480 Deb Sells: Faculty always have the ability to enforce parameters for their classroom. 298 00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:28.050 Deb Sells: And so if a student comes to class and isn't appropriately masked if they are required to wear a mask in the class. 299 00:48:28.530 --> 00:48:37.080 Deb Sells: The faculty member can tell the students that they have to leave and the students won't be permitted to continue on in that classroom that day until they come back properly mass 300 00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:41.850 Deb Sells: So we'll be working with students in a combination of carrot and stick 301 00:48:42.390 --> 00:48:55.170 Deb Sells: Trying to make sure that they understand what the value of working with us on this social distancing issue is, and then following up with those that don't comply, as seems appropriate at the time. If a student really has an issue. 302 00:48:55.680 --> 00:49:02.790 Deb Sells: With wearing a face covering and it's just adamantly opposed to doing it, then my recommendation is going to be that students be taking online classes. 303 00:49:03.390 --> 00:49:15.510 Deb Sells: There are going to be enough options. This upcoming fall that a student who doesn't want to comply can still be enrolled and they can do it from home, but I'm not going to want them here, endangering the rest of the faculty and staff. 304 00:49:16.410 --> 00:49:19.800 Deb Sells: If, if that's something they already know they're not going to want to be a part of. 305 00:49:20.910 --> 00:49:24.660 Deb Sells: You have several questions about Kobe 19 excuse me testing. 306 00:49:24.900 --> 00:49:36.810 Deb Sells: And will it be offered by student health, will they need to be tested prior to coming to school. Will there be an app to report their symptoms. Okay, so called 19 we are learning more about that. Darren coronavirus every week. 307 00:49:37.560 --> 00:49:49.470 Deb Sells: It is still hard for me to remember that as of March. I'd never heard thing before I didn't know what a Corona virus was it certainly didn't know what covert 19 was as of March, and now it's June. 308 00:49:49.890 --> 00:49:55.770 Deb Sells: And I spent an awful lot of my time in meetings with our medical staff trying to think through some of these issues. 309 00:49:56.100 --> 00:50:03.210 Deb Sells: Again we have eight weeks to try to finalize some of this, but we are in talks right now with the state health department around 310 00:50:03.660 --> 00:50:13.320 Deb Sells: Issues of testing and making sure that we have access to the required numbers of tests they are going to be, I think, probably some special populations that will need more testing than others. 311 00:50:13.770 --> 00:50:19.500 Deb Sells: Certainly the athletic department and working with our student athletes, as they return this summer. We're working on testing with them. 312 00:50:19.830 --> 00:50:27.750 Deb Sells: For the most part, our primary goal will be to make sure that we are testing any symptomatic students. So any student who comes into Student Health Center. 313 00:50:28.260 --> 00:50:40.350 Deb Sells: showing symptoms will be tested for coded because we are going to want to have the ability to quarantine and isolate a student quickly and do the contact tracing necessary to be able to get anyone they might have effect infected. 314 00:50:40.950 --> 00:50:49.560 Deb Sells: into quarantine or isolation as well whether or not we're going to do any kind of widespread monitoring of testing. We haven't made that decision yet. 315 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:51.810 Deb Sells: There are 316 00:50:53.340 --> 00:51:01.380 Deb Sells: There are disagreements in the medical community about how helpful. That is what we know currently about the most widely available testing a PCR tests. 317 00:51:01.710 --> 00:51:11.430 Deb Sells: Is that what it does is if I have the test today at 2:32pm it can tell you whether or not I have the virus as of 2:32pm 318 00:51:11.940 --> 00:51:17.340 Deb Sells: At three o'clock I could walk out the door with one of my students they cough on me and by 330 I've got it. 319 00:51:17.610 --> 00:51:29.220 Deb Sells: So that the test is a snapshot of a point in time. That's helpful for monitoring sort of in general ways the spread or the pervasiveness of the virus on the campus. 320 00:51:29.730 --> 00:51:40.410 Deb Sells: But it's not really preventative in nature so much. So we're trying to make some good decisions about that we are talking with the state health department about our access to those tests we have really well trained 321 00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:48.990 Deb Sells: Physicians on our campus. Dr. Clark is our Chief Medical Director, he's been through training with john hopkins on how to do effective contact tracing 322 00:51:49.290 --> 00:51:59.070 Deb Sells: And we believe will be ready to deal with those issues by fall if testing is going to be required prior to students arriving. We will give folks plenty of time to be able to get that taken care of. 323 00:51:59.850 --> 00:52:11.820 Deb Sells: Speaking of plenty of time. We've got questions about when will folks know about housing assignments and whether they're moving in on Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday so folks can alter hotel arrangements. 324 00:52:12.570 --> 00:52:24.390 Deb Sells: Okay, so they are working on housing assignments right now. I think that by the middle of July. We're trying to make sure that folks have in their hands, what their assignments are and we'll have a sense of that. 325 00:52:24.870 --> 00:52:36.810 Deb Sells: But it'll probably be also around the middle of July, when we're able to tell you what the assigned time and date will be for folks to be moving in, it's going to take us a little while to work through those. We know that 326 00:52:37.530 --> 00:52:49.140 Deb Sells: Inevitably, we're going to assign somebody a specific day that they need to move in and there's going to be a family emergency that's going to make that impossible. And so we will do our best to be flexible, to the extent that we can 327 00:52:49.710 --> 00:53:01.470 Deb Sells: But we are going to need folks to understand that if we have asked you to come on Thursday at noon, and you come at Thursday at eight. We're going to send you away for four hours, we cannot have big crowds. 328 00:53:02.190 --> 00:53:05.940 Deb Sells: Backing up and waiting in line in the lobbies will invite you to go 329 00:53:06.210 --> 00:53:12.990 Deb Sells: Do some shopping at Target or Walmart or to get something to eat. Somewhere, take a walk around campus. But if you have an assigned check in time. 330 00:53:13.230 --> 00:53:20.190 Deb Sells: We're going to need you to come at that time and date and we will try to give you as much advanced notice as we can hopefully by the middle of July. 331 00:53:20.970 --> 00:53:33.180 Deb Sells: We will talk a little bit about the housing priority system and how decisions were made about who gets housing priority for example, why isn't a first year transfer student considered a verte like a first year freshman 332 00:53:33.420 --> 00:53:39.240 Deb Sells: Where if I'm a junior transferring him. Is there any hope I will get housing so housing. 333 00:53:39.720 --> 00:53:57.210 Deb Sells: I have spent all of my career, I started out working in housing. When I was right out of graduate school, so I have a long and storied career working in housing. This has been the hardest year for me in dealing with housing issues because the stakes are so high and 334 00:53:58.650 --> 00:54:13.650 Deb Sells: The limits are so intense. So we had to make a decision about whether or not a double loaded sleeping room made sense and everything. The medical people tell us is that there is a build up. 335 00:54:14.460 --> 00:54:22.590 Deb Sells: When it comes to contagion, that the longer the period of time. Is it somebody is exposed to the virus, the more likely they are to get it so 336 00:54:22.860 --> 00:54:30.270 Deb Sells: You know you. We all know the social distancing guideline of staying six feet apart and and not being exposed for more than 15 minutes 337 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:37.950 Deb Sells: The reason is because at 30 minutes you're exposed to that many more particulates in it and our you've absorbed that many more particulates. 338 00:54:38.190 --> 00:54:43.680 Deb Sells: And now let's think about eight hours overnight as two people sleep next to each other in a small room. 339 00:54:44.040 --> 00:55:00.120 Deb Sells: And it just does not seem to us to be a very safe plan. And if I could have known that back in October of last year when we started taking re assignments for the residence halls, we would have done something different, but we like I said, we didn't even hear the word 340 00:55:01.170 --> 00:55:11.070 Deb Sells: Until we got to march. So we've had to make some really fast decisions and they've been really hard decisions and I know you don't all agree with them and I get that. And that's all right. 341 00:55:11.700 --> 00:55:17.370 Deb Sells: The reason we made the decisions we made is based on what we know about student development. 342 00:55:17.730 --> 00:55:24.660 Deb Sells: And what we know about student development is that the students who are least prepared to live off campus, generally speaking. 343 00:55:24.930 --> 00:55:35.850 Deb Sells: Are those that are the youngest and that have never done it before. So those are going to be our new high school graduates that are coming to us for the first time as freshmen, those are going to be the students that are likely 344 00:55:36.720 --> 00:55:47.820 Deb Sells: In terms of their maturation in terms of their development. They're going to be the least able to manage simultaneously the shift to university learning and the shift to learning independently. 345 00:55:48.360 --> 00:56:00.720 Deb Sells: Students who already have a semester or two semesters, or more under their belts, even if at another college, they're not going to be making both of those shifts together freshmen are the only ones really that are making the shift. 346 00:56:01.560 --> 00:56:05.670 Deb Sells: out of high school to college level learning and to living on their own. 347 00:56:06.090 --> 00:56:15.330 Deb Sells: So those are the ones we think that can benefit the most from the staffing, the rules, the structure that we provide in the residence halls. 348 00:56:15.660 --> 00:56:22.140 Deb Sells: If your student is already engaged in college level learning or if your student is already lived independently. They've got a leg up. 349 00:56:22.470 --> 00:56:26.370 Deb Sells: And if we have to disadvantage anyone. Those are going to be the ones we disadvantage. 350 00:56:26.700 --> 00:56:36.600 Deb Sells: Not because we don't love them. And I've heard this from students, you know, Laurie and I are out on all those Facebook pages we have seven of them growing right now for students transfer students and 351 00:56:36.930 --> 00:56:55.230 Deb Sells: Students from the class of 2019 2021 2223 and 24 we're out on all their pages and I've had students from every page, say, Why do you love me freshmen more than you love us. And the answer is, I don't. I love you all. You're all important to me, but it's a little bit like 352 00:56:57.540 --> 00:57:07.890 Deb Sells: You know, like when a new baby is born in a family and person who was the baby before has to grow up a little bit and be a little more independent. Because now there's this new baby. That's just doing the family. 353 00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:19.050 Deb Sells: It's a little like that. I still love them. I just know they can they're capable of some things that our newest youngest freshmen probably are less capable of. And I know they're always 354 00:57:19.950 --> 00:57:34.830 Deb Sells: Specific variations in some of that. And I know that the housing folks are working with some students who have some very special needs. And we're going to do our very best to accommodate those. And I know I'm not going to make everybody happy with that decision and that happens. 355 00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:43.380 Deb Sells: I'm always happy to share with you what my thinking is and how we arrived at that decision. So at least you know that it wasn't just, you know, 356 00:57:43.830 --> 00:57:54.420 Deb Sells: A random chance I drew a name out of a hat. There was some thinking behind it. It's based on what we know about how students operate and I wish I had enough housing for everybody. 357 00:57:56.100 --> 00:58:02.070 Deb Sells: We don't this year because we really do think that this issue of sleeping alone in a room is going to become very important. 358 00:58:03.150 --> 00:58:06.570 Deb Sells: Housing seems to be a prevalent question by question or that housing. 359 00:58:07.620 --> 00:58:19.380 Deb Sells: And so we want to talk a little bit about why we're assigning people times versus giving folks, the opportunity to sign up for a time. Oh, you pick a time versus we pick a time for you, um, 360 00:58:20.190 --> 00:58:31.230 Deb Sells: Well, part of that is just how do we manage the move in of 2000 people and it's just very difficult if everybody is is phoning in with their own preferred time to get it done. 361 00:58:31.530 --> 00:58:38.100 Deb Sells: And so I think the way that we will approach it just really as a management tool for us to be able to manage 2000 of you. 362 00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:50.220 Deb Sells: Will be that we will assign times and then if that's not convenient if you cannot make that work. Then we'll deal with the exceptions but but we're going to need to make sure that we're bringing you in. 363 00:58:51.600 --> 00:58:59.820 Deb Sells: In a consistent way that at that fills each of the building slowly. So if we let everybody just pick their own time. 364 00:59:00.090 --> 00:59:13.710 Deb Sells: If it turned out that 200 of you all wanting to move in on Thursday morning into core Lou, that doesn't really solve our problem of how we reduce density on Thursday. I'm probably only going to need 60 of you moving in. 365 00:59:14.250 --> 00:59:25.020 Deb Sells: So that we don't overload that building. We don't overload those elevators and we have the ability to keep people properly distanced and so we're going to have to be assigning so that all of the buildings. 366 00:59:25.440 --> 00:59:35.910 Deb Sells: Built slowly and sort of build over those four days so that we don't end up overloading those hallways and those elevators in those front desks, where we have to do check in for folks. 367 00:59:36.660 --> 00:59:45.900 Deb Sells: We have a question about scholars Academy. And do we have any information about that. Will there be social distancing requirements and small group so scholars Academy 368 00:59:46.530 --> 00:59:52.440 Deb Sells: doesn't operate through my division. And so I am waiting for information and scholars Academy, just like you guys are 369 00:59:53.430 --> 01:00:04.290 Deb Sells: That goes through the Office of Student Success Dean Rick's leader and I know that they will be communicating with the students who are a part of that program as we get a little bit further in the summer. 370 01:00:04.680 --> 01:00:10.950 Deb Sells: I assume they will be operating with some social distancing in place, because that's just going to be the lay of the land for the campus. 371 01:00:11.670 --> 01:00:21.840 Deb Sells: But I don't have great details on that. So I would encourage you if you have questions about that to contact Vincent window or Belinda Johnson. 372 01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:29.190 Deb Sells: Who are two of the lead people for the scholars Academy program and they're in the Office of Student Success and other question. 373 01:00:29.910 --> 01:00:41.730 Deb Sells: What happens if a student gets stuck on campus live on campus and I get so. So what happens if a student is living on campus and get sick. And I'm assuming you mean get sick with COPD 19 or something so 374 01:00:42.510 --> 01:00:51.930 Deb Sells: We have, as I said, a really great Student Health Center on campus and they were prepared to deal with this in March and they will be prepared again to deal with this this fall. 375 01:00:52.530 --> 01:00:59.850 Deb Sells: We will have some protocols in place. It's Student Health where we will ask students to call ahead before they come over. If they're showing symptoms. 376 01:01:00.120 --> 01:01:07.110 Deb Sells: So that we can bring them into the health clinic in a way that doesn't expose other students to them as they enter the facility. 377 01:01:07.650 --> 01:01:16.830 Deb Sells: They will be, as I said, tested if they're symptomatic because we're going to be testing those students if they are students who live with us on campus. We are going to have spaces set aside. 378 01:01:17.610 --> 01:01:26.130 Deb Sells: To quarantine and isolate students who need that. So our doctors will work with the students to do contact tracing to figure out who else has been exposed 379 01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:38.160 Deb Sells: And to make the decisions about whether a 10 day or a 14 day or whatever, that the time period is that they need to be quarantined or isolated and then we will move them out of their current assigned space usually 380 01:01:38.850 --> 01:01:45.810 Deb Sells: Over to some spaces that we will have set aside and not filled with students in will McLean apartments. 381 01:01:46.080 --> 01:01:54.810 Deb Sells: Those are private apartments with a private bathroom and students who are in quarantine will be expected to stay there. We will have somebody that will deliver meals to them. 382 01:01:55.320 --> 01:02:01.680 Deb Sells: So that they will have food to eat and they will be needing to participate in their classes. 383 01:02:02.490 --> 01:02:12.420 Deb Sells: From online from within that apartment so they won't be permitted to attend classes until the period of their quarantine is over faculty are being made aware of that and the faculty actually 384 01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:20.280 Deb Sells: based on feedback from you guys. Some of you remember last spring I asked for your feedback about how the online stuff was going 385 01:02:20.610 --> 01:02:33.000 Deb Sells: And some of you said you know would be really helpful if there was a consistent attendance policy amongst the faculty that takes into effect takes into account the fact that we don't want students, bringing their illness with them to class. 386 01:02:33.990 --> 01:02:47.970 Deb Sells: And so they are working on that. Now, and there will be a consistent attendance policy that takes into effect. It takes into account the fact that we need students in quarantine to stay in quarantine and be able to work on their classes from their quarantine location. 387 01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:58.830 Deb Sells: If all my classes are currently on ground. When will I know if some or all become online class I think Lori's can answer that question for us. 388 01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:00.960 Aunt Laurie : Yeah. 389 01:03:01.860 --> 01:03:07.440 Aunt Laurie : I think about four of the colleges so far have gotten all of their information back to us. 390 01:03:08.070 --> 01:03:21.870 Aunt Laurie : every faculty member is really carefully thinking about the content of their course and how they can best deliver it to students, how they can transition to a remote delivery or an online delivery or if 391 01:03:22.470 --> 01:03:35.250 Aunt Laurie : Face to face in the classrooms, the very best way to do it. So, because that's a distributed process among all of our faculty, it's taking a little bit of time to get all of that information back in 392 01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:49.560 Aunt Laurie : We think we'll have all of the information from all the faculty in all of the colleges back within the next two weeks, so you may seek some classes changing on your schedule. 393 01:03:50.160 --> 01:03:59.670 Aunt Laurie : Or in the lookup classes, but we're going to email you and put the word out on all of the Facebook pages when we are fairly certain 394 01:04:00.120 --> 01:04:13.470 Aunt Laurie : That we've reached a threshold where we're confident about the delivery method for each of the classes that doesn't mean it's not going to change it might change for a class or two here or there. 395 01:04:14.010 --> 01:04:18.240 Aunt Laurie : But for the most part we're pretty confident that in a couple of weeks. It's going to be set. 396 01:04:19.740 --> 01:04:21.780 Deb Sells: Great. Thanks, Lori. This is 397 01:04:21.900 --> 01:04:29.430 Aunt Laurie : Probably also worry if a student is making decisions about taking online versus in person classes. 398 01:04:29.670 --> 01:04:40.140 Aunt Laurie : Will that impact their scholarship awards. For example, if a student or parents decide that a student needs to take all all online classes will their scholarship amounts be reduced. 399 01:04:40.620 --> 01:04:53.970 Aunt Laurie : Okay, I hope you heard that question, it's about eligibility for scholarships and online versus on ground courses online remote delivery hybrid web assisted 400 01:04:54.570 --> 01:05:04.200 Aunt Laurie : Those are all credit bearing classes and all of them are going to count toward your being full time for your scholarships for a lottery scholarship 401 01:05:04.470 --> 01:05:11.010 Aunt Laurie : Or for one of the guaranteed scholarships offered by empty issue or one of the competitive scholarships offered by empty issue. 402 01:05:11.340 --> 01:05:25.140 Aunt Laurie : And really I have never heard of a private scholarship from anywhere that didn't also include online classes. The only exclusion for online classes I've ever heard of have been some 403 01:05:25.650 --> 01:05:35.220 Aunt Laurie : Foreign countries who are wanting their students here to get a real in person experience that they will limit the number of online classes. That's the only 404 01:05:35.820 --> 01:05:55.500 Aunt Laurie : The only thing I've heard about she want to remain full time and that is 12 hours. I would rather you're taking 15 credit hours because at 15 credit hours per semester in eight semesters, you have the 120 hours to graduate. So 15 to finish is what I'd like to see you do 405 01:05:56.940 --> 01:06:07.590 Deb Sells: Great. This might be a question that needs to go to a department, but there's a question about flight labs and will some of the social distancing requirements impact flight labs as well. 406 01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:15.960 Deb Sells: Yeah, I don't know the answer to that. I don't think Lori does either. So you're going to want to go through the aerospace department on that question, I 407 01:06:16.110 --> 01:06:25.560 Deb Sells: I believe they have been flying some flight labs this summer. So they are finding their way through it. My guess is they are wearing masks because they're not sitting six feet apart in some of those little tiny cockpit. 408 01:06:26.220 --> 01:06:40.110 Deb Sells: But I'm guessing they're wearing face coverings and they will work their way through those issues, but I don't. I just don't have any insight into the flight labs right now. Sorry, and then folks are thinking ahead to the fall and asking questions about family weekend. Will there be one. 409 01:06:42.090 --> 01:06:48.630 Deb Sells: You're killing me. You guys, I'm trying to get us through opening weekend and you want to know about family weekend. 410 01:06:49.290 --> 01:06:56.790 Deb Sells: We don't know we're waiting to see what's going to happen with college athletics. I think that's a big question on everybody's mind. 411 01:06:57.360 --> 01:07:06.360 Deb Sells: The NC double A has deferred. A lot of the issues related to college athletics to the conferences. So we're waiting to hear from our conferences. 412 01:07:06.750 --> 01:07:16.470 Deb Sells: Our football team is beginning to report back and they are in training and conditioning right now. So they are expecting to play the question will be, whether or not they're playing 413 01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:27.930 Deb Sells: With a crowd in the stands or not. And we don't have that information yet. So we probably will not make decisions about a family weekend until we get a little closer to August and have a sense of how 414 01:07:28.410 --> 01:07:34.890 Deb Sells: The whole athletic activity is going to look like. Because we usually build family weekend around one of the football games. 415 01:07:36.600 --> 01:07:37.590 Deb Sells: Now the question, Sarah. 416 01:07:38.730 --> 01:07:44.100 Deb Sells: Question about the webinar that we're currently doing well. The recording be available. 417 01:07:44.430 --> 01:07:53.190 Deb Sells: For viewing later. Yes, because I know you're all going to want to watch this again. I know this has been the highlight of your week so yes this is being recorded and will get a link out 418 01:07:53.490 --> 01:07:59.520 Deb Sells: If you want to share it with people who didn't get a chance to see it or if you just loved it so much you want to come back around. 419 01:08:00.030 --> 01:08:08.910 Deb Sells: I do know there was also a question about January and in the same way, your questions about family weekend are killing me January kills me too. I don't know. 420 01:08:09.360 --> 01:08:15.540 Deb Sells: We are assuming that if we are successful in getting through this fall, we will certainly be back and doing it again in the spring. 421 01:08:15.930 --> 01:08:24.090 Deb Sells: Think lots of folks are hoping, hoping that we're going to see a vaccination in the spring, we'll see whether or not it's widespread enough that folks have access to it. 422 01:08:24.540 --> 01:08:34.650 Deb Sells: Starting in the spring or not. But at this point, our plan is that we are going to be probably doing something very similar to the fall again in the spring. 423 01:08:35.460 --> 01:08:45.210 Deb Sells: And we'll be adjusting the social distancing requirements based on whatever is happening in the state of Tennessee and what the state guidelines and CDC guidelines are at that point. 424 01:08:46.260 --> 01:08:53.010 Deb Sells: We have a question about Greek life recruitment. Why do we anticipate that looking like a small fraternity and sorority recruitment. 425 01:08:53.490 --> 01:08:59.340 Deb Sells: Leslie Merritt. Who's our director of turning Sorority Life is in the thick of it right now. 426 01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:06.840 Deb Sells: With the young men and women who run those programs they are planning to have recruitment activities this fall. Some of them will be online. 427 01:09:07.350 --> 01:09:12.090 Deb Sells: They are working with me to get permission to do perhaps one of their activities face to face. 428 01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:29.460 Deb Sells: So we're, we're trying to, again, wait to see what the CDC will permit us to do as we get busy into the fall activities. But yes, they are planning to do recruitment, they are planning to recruit new members and it should be a really fun and exciting fall for that kind of activity. 429 01:09:30.750 --> 01:09:38.100 Deb Sells: Other questions. I'm not sure I really understand the question completely. I think what they're asking is, what do 430 01:09:38.370 --> 01:09:43.680 Deb Sells: freshmen students, what are they required to do prior to the zoom customs session. 431 01:09:43.920 --> 01:09:56.730 Deb Sells: So I'm assuming they're referencing online customs that needs to be completed before they zoom on the actual day they attend, but you want to talk a little about the customs process. Yeah, so okay so customs is your looks really different for us. 432 01:09:57.240 --> 01:10:05.250 Deb Sells: than it has in years prior. And I want to just think again, Gina and Lydia for all the work that they did to very quickly transition us from 433 01:10:05.730 --> 01:10:16.590 Deb Sells: A program we've done on campus for decades to now a program that's done online if your student is new and incoming this fall is either transfer freshmen, they will 434 01:10:17.340 --> 01:10:29.310 Deb Sells: Complete a online customs on their computers from your home prior to their zoom day. So if you have signed out if your student is signed up. Let's say for a July 15 435 01:10:30.030 --> 01:10:35.880 Deb Sells: Custom session prior to July 15 they need to go on their computers and do customs online. 436 01:10:36.390 --> 01:10:43.320 Deb Sells: Customs online is a series of modules where there'll be able to see videos of people like me talking. 437 01:10:43.740 --> 01:10:53.790 Deb Sells: There'll be able to click through some PowerPoint slides with information about resources and activities on campus and they're expected to have that done prior to the day, they've signed up for. 438 01:10:54.120 --> 01:10:57.000 Deb Sells: Can on the day, they've signed up for in the morning, they'll log on. 439 01:10:57.780 --> 01:11:05.580 Deb Sells: If they're freshmen and they'll have a session where they meet other freshmen and they meet with their student orientation Assistant There SLA. 440 01:11:05.910 --> 01:11:13.830 Deb Sells: And they'll do a zoom meeting together and then either later that day or the following day they'll have an advising appointment online. 441 01:11:14.310 --> 01:11:28.530 Deb Sells: With their academic advisor or with a small group and the academic advisor weren't all actually make decisions about the classes they're going to enroll in for the fall and get that gun question for Lori about the payment that was an 442 01:11:28.680 --> 01:11:30.210 Aunt Laurie : Intuition needs to be paid. 443 01:11:32.700 --> 01:11:36.630 Aunt Laurie : You're going to get a bill. Those of you have completed customs. 444 01:11:37.740 --> 01:11:42.180 Aunt Laurie : And registered for classes, you can already look that up. How much that's going to be 445 01:11:42.600 --> 01:11:46.920 Aunt Laurie : If you go to the empty one stop website look under tuition. 446 01:11:47.160 --> 01:11:57.690 Aunt Laurie : You can look up the number of credit hours and you'll see the tuition and fees associated with that number. So as soon as you register, you'll be able to know that. But the bill will come 447 01:11:57.960 --> 01:12:04.830 Aunt Laurie : On July 14 so on July 14 you'll have that in about a month later in August. 448 01:12:05.790 --> 01:12:19.380 Aunt Laurie : Is the deadline to pay that bills or or make arrangements to pay the bill because there's an opportunity for you to do an installment plan if you like where you would pay 25% plus $50 fee. 449 01:12:20.010 --> 01:12:28.920 Aunt Laurie : At the time that the bills are due. And then once a month at the end of the month in September, October and November, you would pay the other 450 01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:37.560 Aunt Laurie : 25% of that bill. So if you know that you're going to need loans to help satisfy that bill. 451 01:12:38.190 --> 01:12:42.420 Aunt Laurie : Please go ahead and do it now. Don't wait for the bill to come out. 452 01:12:42.810 --> 01:12:51.780 Aunt Laurie : In July 14 go ahead and start that process. Now as I said you can look it up. You can see how much the classes are going to cost for tuition and fees. 453 01:12:52.110 --> 01:12:59.250 Aunt Laurie : And make an estimate of how much you think it's going to cost for housing and for food for a semester. 454 01:12:59.550 --> 01:13:13.020 Aunt Laurie : And then go ahead and apply for those loans now so that we can have everything in place when the bill comes and we can have all of the aid to offset the bill. So you can see a true reflection of what you do. 455 01:13:15.120 --> 01:13:26.880 Deb Sells: We're just about out of time. I did want to say that many of you have very specific questions you've shared with us about financial aid or scholarships or how you're going to approach paying for the bill. 456 01:13:27.120 --> 01:13:37.080 Deb Sells: Those are all great questions that can go through the empty one stuff. So on this campus all the questions related to paying for being here and for dealing with your financial aid. 457 01:13:37.290 --> 01:13:43.440 Deb Sells: Are dealt with by ENROLLMENT COUNSELORS in the empty one stop and the very best way to get good answers is to email them. 458 01:13:44.040 --> 01:13:56.670 Deb Sells: We do have a phone call option, but that's going to get you to sort of the counter people. And if you have a question, you really are going to want to be dealing with one of the enrollment counselors who will take your questions via email. 459 01:13:57.240 --> 01:14:07.350 Deb Sells: Access and research your students account and then give you a written answer so that there's no confusion and we've all got a copy of exactly what we agreed to, or what we said. So the way you would get in touch with them. 460 01:14:07.770 --> 01:14:21.060 Deb Sells: Is that empty one stop at Mt issue.edu so always use that email at Mt one stop at Mt issue.edu. You can also talk to Lauren me 461 01:14:21.450 --> 01:14:27.840 Deb Sells: On the parent Facebook page. So if you haven't yet signed up for that. Have your student make a Facebook account for you. 462 01:14:28.320 --> 01:14:32.730 Deb Sells: If you don't know how to do that and sign up for him TSU parent family Facebook page. 463 01:14:33.150 --> 01:14:41.340 Deb Sells: We are out there and happy to answer questions, I will ask if you have a specific or personal question. If you'll send that via email to us rather than 464 01:14:41.580 --> 01:14:50.730 Deb Sells: Trying to use the Facebook Messenger product. We just don't really use that it's not secure when it comes to dealing with our students. So send us an email, you can always reach me 465 01:14:51.570 --> 01:15:05.640 Deb Sells: At Debra cells at MTS you.edu or Lori at Lori with a row at Mt issue.edu it's always first name dot last name at Mt issue.edu and we're happy to respond to your emails. 466 01:15:06.300 --> 01:15:14.640 Deb Sells: Or to your Facebook post to try to make sure that you have really good information as you're planning for this very interesting fall semester. That's coming up. 467 01:15:15.660 --> 01:15:26.490 Deb Sells: Okay, there were 170 have you with us today that really knocks my socks off we perhaps will consider doing this another time later in the summer when you might have some different questions. 468 01:15:27.240 --> 01:15:38.640 Deb Sells: We really appreciate you spending an hour with us this afternoon and I can't wait to welcome you all back here, this fall with your students as we get them started on the adventure of a lifetime. Welcome to MTSU!