Help us Build the Covid 19 Challenges List!
Given the speed of change of the Covid 19 pandemic, university leadership, faculty, staff and students have asked for a working list of the range of issues they have to handle. Below is what we have collected so far with resource links as we find them. We will continue to update the list through the crisis, so return regularly as you can.
We invite you to help us build this list. Add additional topics or resources (or suggestion revisions or identified) in the blog comment section. We will add them to the main list, and just keep going.
CARES Act
Emergency Aid Distribution
Resource: Beyond the Food Pantry: Maximizing the CARES Emergency Aid Fund for Students
Uses of Part II
Communications
Across campus
Across the community
Confidence building measures
Employees
Teleworking
Paid Sick Leave
Equity
Access
Impacts
Data analysis by groups
Covid Impacts
Faculty
Transitioning Faculty to Remote, then On-Line Learning
Peer to Peer Training
Academic Continuity Committee
Targeting smartphones and asynchronous instruction for access
Teaching Evaluation
If required, allow faculty to choose not to include the remote evaluation in their file.
Tenure Review
Tenure review clocks
Conference papers accepted but not presented (due to cancellations)
Financial Challenges
Refunds (tuition, fees)
Unexpected costs (e.g. on-line exam proctoring)
Keeping employees and student employees financially whole
Tracking Covid related costs separately from the regular budget items
Tuition and fees for the summer and fall terms
State budgets
Governance (rapid decision making in a complex ecosystem)
Faculty Senate
State
System
Accreditors
Academic Continuity Teams
Partnering to Support Public Health and the Community
Staffing labs (e.g. using graduate students)
Working with Health Departments
Supporting Testing
3-D printing and manufacturing personal protective equipment
Supporting small business and local workers
Repopulating Campus (Fall Semester)
When and How
Testing (temperature, Covid 19, antibodies) and testing capacities
Tracking
Social Distancing Protocols (classrooms, dining halls, labs, dorms, etc..)
Facilities (cleaning schedule, hand sanitizer availability)
Masks
Confidence building measures and communications
Research
Faculty research interruption
Student research interruption
Funding access and flexibility
Lab maintenance
Students
Access to Wifi, Data and Devices for on-line learning
Buying hotspots, tablets and computers to provide as loaners
Keeping access points like data labs open.
Wifi and data providers offering resources to support students, familie and communities
Basic Needs
Students who can’t go home, lose their jobs or face food insecurity
Emergency Aid
Resources:
Webinar:
Communications
Data and Equity impacts
Monitoring impacts, sub-dividing data to understand how different populations are being impacted
Grading and Assessment
Pass/Fail Decisions
Proctoring
Grade options
Libraries and access to materials
Libraries closing (but some computer labs open to provide access).
Expanding e-resources (e-chat, library tools, working with providers to expand e-journal resources for a period of time).
Mental Health
Resource Article: Coronavirus and anxiety, depression and OCD
New Student Enrollment
Virtual Tours
Test Optional and impact of delayed ACT/SAT
Summer programs, orientation and admit days
Supporting students on-line
Advising
Student services
Mentoring
What else? Add it in the comments, and we will update this regularly.
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