Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Friday, October 23, 2020.
Another weekend is here, so I have to issue my usual reminder about how dangerous it is to go to parties, not only to the partier but also to everyone else who wants to continue to have the campus open! The Fall Festival coming for tomorrow looks like a lot of safe fun, though! Many thanks to the hard-working staff of Student Life for putting this on.
Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Thursday, October 22, 2020.
Students, please get your DocuSign document submitted, if you haven’t already done so; the deadline is tomorrow.
Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Wednesday, October 21, 2020.
Today marks the completion of 10 of the 15 weeks planned for the Fall 2020 semester. I just want to congratulate everyone who has been part of our success to date. It has not been easy for anyone, and it has been really hard for some, but I am just amazed at all that so many Bereans have done, faculty, staff and students, so that we have been able to continue with our important activities of teaching and learning, labor and service, whether remote or in person.
Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Tuesday, October 20, 2020.
Thanks to all the students who participated in the Town Hall Zoom call last evening. The questions and comments were interesting and useful.
Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Monday, October 19, 2020.
Mrs. Roelofs and I are looking forward to getting on the Town Hall Zoom call at 7:30 this evening. Students have been doing a great job coping with a very tough situation so far, and you deserve to feel very good about how you have risen to the greatest challenge Berea students have faced in generations!
Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Friday, October 16, 2020.
We have had one student added as a precautionary quarantine, so there are now five students in James Hall, three as close-contact quarantines from before and two as precautionary, in addition to the two student close-contact quarantines in the Ecovillage. Scheduled testing of employees and students is continuing.
One of our facilities employees who was a close-contact quarantine has tested positive, so our totals exclusive of the CDL situation are: 5 on-campus employees in isolation and 3 in close-contact quarantine. (The new isolation case had not been on campus for the last week.)
Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Thursday, October 15, 2020.
Two students tested negative and have been able to leave pre-cautionary quarantine and one new pre-cautionary case has moved in, so we are at four students in James Hall, three as close-contact quarantines from before and one as precautionary. In addition two students in the Ecovillage are in close-contact quarantine after an unauthorized visitor wound up testing positive. Scheduled testing of employees and students is continuing.
Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Wednesday, October 14, 2020.
I need to apologize for accidentally hitting a premature “send” this morning. Most folks got an extra, obviously unfinished email message from me.
From that premature send you already know that the AC is quite concerned about employees traveling during the upcoming Fall Break in the local schools. Our earlier guidance suggests the importance of quarantining for anyone who travels to areas where the virus is prevalent. We have about 600 active cases in a population of about 90,000 in Madison County, and there are a lot of places that have much heavier incidence than that. The AC may adopt, but has not yet had a chance to consider this, the updated guidance for how to protect others after you have traveled…
Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Tuesday, October 13, 2020.
Five students are in James Hall, four as close-contact quarantines from before and now one precautionary quarantine, too, at this time. Scheduled testing of employees and students is continuing.
There are no changes in the number of on-campus employees in isolation or quarantine and there is no new information regarding the outbreak in the Child Development Laboratory.
Dear Bereans,
This is the update for Monday, October 12, 2020.
Four students are in James Hall as close-contact quarantines, and there are no precautionary quarantines at this time. Scheduled testing of employees and students is continuing.