The Staff and Faculty Senates hosted a Summer Forum Zoom Webinar on Friday, June 26th.<\/p>\n
With 400 audience members and a panel of 15 administrators, the session was fast-paced and covered many topics related to worksite operations and campus response to COVID-19.\u00a0 The Senates solicited questions in advance and received more than 200 individual questions as part of that process.\u00a0 \u00a0It is no surprise there is a great deal of interest and concern around fall operations \u2013 as Chancellor Kelli Brown noted, \u201cOur decisions regarding the academic calendar and the instructional strategies are part of a comprehensive and evolving plan for the Fall semester being developed by a working group in the Division of Academic Affairs, that\u2019s been led by Dr. Starnes, and is based on guidance from the University of North Carolina System.\u00a0 And it goes without saying that that guidance is evolving on a weekly and sometimes daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s session was originally slated to cover both issues related to the pandemic as well as equity, diversity, racism.\u00a0 Based on the sheer volume of questions and topics, and the desire to give the equity conversation the time and focus needed, the Chancellor, Chief Diversity Officer, Mr. Ricardo Nazario-Colon, and leaders from the Senates have decided to host another forum solely focused on those topics.\u00a0 Please watch for upcoming announcements and make plans to attend that critical discussion.<\/p>\n
The Summer Forum ran for 90 minutes and allowed for live Q&A, in addition to the pre-selected questions solicited from the campus community.\u00a0 Topics covered included: \u00a0face coverings on campus, quarantine, testing and contact tracing, faculty workload, cleaning and sanitation, athletics, teleworking, community and local hospital coordination, and furlough potential, among many others.<\/p>\n