Dear Campus Community,
We are writing to welcome you to the start of the Fall 2020 Semester and to inform you of important information and resources for this coming academic year.
This semester does come with challenges, and we have worked with many of you over the spring and summer to identify and address these challenges through careful planning. We want to thank you for your continued dedication, creativity, and flexibility.
Resources for Fall Instruction
Dear Colleagues,
As a campus, we are called on daily to address complex, sometimes emotional, and oftentimes uncomfortable circumstances in our positions. Consider how quickly we were called on to respond to COVID-19. Suddenly we spent weeks addressing leaves issues, setting up and developing alternative working arrangements, advising managers and supervisors about how to manage remotely and responding to the health and safety needs of everyone.
Dear Colleagues,
Thanks to those of you who tuned into last week’s Campus Conversation in which we, along with Chancellor Christ, gave an update on the campus budget; the event was recorded and can be accessed on the Campus Conversations website. We appreciate your questions and engagement. We find ourselves in an enormously challenging time and ask for your partnership as we look to the future.
Dear campus community -
As you know, we will start the fall 2020 semester with remote instruction and by offering student services remotely. As leaders of the Student Engagement and Services Recovery Management Team, we want to share updates about how we plan to support you and about our readiness plans under the evolving circumstances.
Dear Campus Community,
In a previous message about the incidents of Zoom bombing on campus, we committed to making improvements to our Zoom service in order to strengthen security and privacy settings as mechanisms to mitigate further acts of Zoom bombing. We are writing to provide an update to you about the specifics of those changes, which will be rolled out between now and the start of the fall semester.
Dear Colleagues,
Thank you for sharing your opinions in our third coronavirus Employee Morale Survey.
The headlines this month are ‘steady as we go.’ With a few notable exceptions, your feelings remain largely unchanged as to the effects coronavirus is having on our lives. One of the big changes is in your view of working from home once shelter in place is lifted (more of you prefer to work from home) which is understandable given California’s recent surge in positive cases.