{"id":120186,"date":"2020-03-11T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=120186"},"modified":"2021-03-18T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T00:30:46","slug":"chancellor-memo-campus-changes-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=120186","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor Memo: Campus changes due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/venkat-reddy-headshot2019-300x420.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Chancellor Venkat Reddy\" class=\"wp-image-103970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/venkat-reddy-headshot2019-300x420.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/venkat-reddy-headshot2019-750x1050.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today,\nI am announcing several campus actions to help limit COVID-19 risk on campus.\nWe will continue to fulfill our mission by ensuring that students are able to\nmeet their educational requirements and faculty are able to continue their\nresearch and scholarship, and the campus will remain open to allow that to\noccur.<br>\n<br>\nThe campus will remain open with regular hours and will continue to operate\ncampus services and facilities. But, as local, national and global public\nhealth recommendations shift to include mitigation of transmission, we are\nproactively taking steps protect the campus and the community.<br>\n<br>\nThe campus is taking the following actions, which will be in effect until\nfurther notice. We will be providing further guidance in the coming days and\nprovide direction about how to implement each of these decisions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Remote Teaching and Learning <\/strong>\u2013 UCCS is working with deans to begin the transition to teach remotely to reduce the number of people on campus and increase social distancing. After Spring Break, UCCS will use remote learning for two weeks (March 30-April 13) for those classes that are able to do so. In person classes will begin again Tuesday, April 14, unless a different decision is made prior to that date. Faculty will determine how best to use technology, such as Canvas, Microsoft Teams or WebEx, to enable students to complete their educational requirements. This is consistent with what several other institutions are already doing. <ul><li>The faculty and the individual college deans, with approval of the Provost\u2019s Office, will determine classes that are not able to meet remotely. Additional communication from deans and       vice chancellors will be provided to faculty and staff. Students in those classes will receive specific instructions by Thursday, March 19.<\/li><li>The library will remain open for students to access computers and resources.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Remote Work<\/strong> \u2013 High-risk individuals, including those with a chronic health condition or a compromised immune system, can work with their supervisor to determine remote work options. Additional      information will be available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/hr\/covid-19-hr-guidance\">Human Resources website<\/a> today.<\/li><li><strong>Domestic and International Travel <\/strong>\u2013 All university-sponsored travel, international and domestic, is restricted through the end of April. Exceptions must be approved by the dean and Provost for academic units and the Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance for other units. <\/li><li><strong>Events<\/strong> \u2013 All large campus-sponsored events will be evaluated case-by-case by the Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Success.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nThe\nsafety of our community is our top priority. We realize that our COVID-19\npolicy guidelines will cause disruption\u2014and that you will have additional\nquestions based on the above information\u2014but the risk of not acting outweighs\nthe inconvenience of these temporary measures.&nbsp;<br><br>\nThe university has activated its Incident Management Team, a group of more than\n30 individuals from each area of campus, that have been working on the campus\nresponse to COVID-19. We are continuously updating the <a href=\"http:\/\/covid19.uccs.edu\">coronavirus information page<\/a> in\naccordance with these decisions, and we will follow up with more specific\nguidance on next steps later today and in the coming days.<br><br>\nI appreciate your patience and cooperation. We are grateful to faculty and\nstaff for their tremendous efforts during these challenging times. I am\nconfident that with your help we will get through this successfully. <br><br>\nVenkat Reddy<br>\nChancellor\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chancellor Venkat Reddy issued a statement to the campus community regarding a change to remote learning for classes after the upcoming Spring Break. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=120186\" title=\"Chancellor Memo: Campus changes due to COVID-19\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":104522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,44,62,51,85,60,265],"class_list":["post-120186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","tag-academic-affairs","tag-administration-and-finance","tag-chancellors-office","tag-featured","tag-human-resources","tag-student-success","tag-university-center-and-event-services"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_23102.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-vgu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121828,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120186\/revisions\/121828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}