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caitri Classes start on August 24, and students will probably return to campus about a week or so before that. How many students? Utterly unknown. The uni has decided to let every department on campus decide whether it wants to be online, face to face, or hybrid. (Grad school friends have posted images of the laughable plexiglass shields dividing shared office spaces and such.) Starting next week everyone on campus is to get twice weekly covid tests, which I have built into my schedule.
We also had a meeting about reopening public services at work. We've been doing everything virtually since March, and keeping mostly on top of things. Our plan is to re-open to the public twice a week from October 1 - November 20, with one appointment for a researcher in the morning and one in the afternoon. No walk-ins--everyone will have to be let into the building and then escorted to our unit. Later, we were half-joking about an office pool betting on when we'll get a spike that forces the university to close again. General agreement seemed to be that it was likely to be mid- to late-September. (Not least because there's plans to have a football game Sept 3. at the designated 20% capacity, which would still be something like 12k people.)
We're going to start doing virtual instruction on Sept. 24. Efforts to prepare have been stymied by the back-ordered equipment and therefore the inability to train in using it and stuff. Also have no idea how many instruction requests we'll actually be getting--people make interested noises and don't follow up, or send repeated demands for information and then don't follow up when we actually have it. For similar reasons I feel thwarted in figuring out how to do virtual events because localized emphasis is on maintaining accessibility and making sure everything's captioned, and that moves deadlines up and then people squawk in protest. "Do we REALLY have to do this?" one fool person said. "YES WE DO AND WE WILL" said my boss the Social Justice Paladin.
I am so tired.
We also had a meeting about reopening public services at work. We've been doing everything virtually since March, and keeping mostly on top of things. Our plan is to re-open to the public twice a week from October 1 - November 20, with one appointment for a researcher in the morning and one in the afternoon. No walk-ins--everyone will have to be let into the building and then escorted to our unit. Later, we were half-joking about an office pool betting on when we'll get a spike that forces the university to close again. General agreement seemed to be that it was likely to be mid- to late-September. (Not least because there's plans to have a football game Sept 3. at the designated 20% capacity, which would still be something like 12k people.)
We're going to start doing virtual instruction on Sept. 24. Efforts to prepare have been stymied by the back-ordered equipment and therefore the inability to train in using it and stuff. Also have no idea how many instruction requests we'll actually be getting--people make interested noises and don't follow up, or send repeated demands for information and then don't follow up when we actually have it. For similar reasons I feel thwarted in figuring out how to do virtual events because localized emphasis is on maintaining accessibility and making sure everything's captioned, and that moves deadlines up and then people squawk in protest. "Do we REALLY have to do this?" one fool person said. "YES WE DO AND WE WILL" said my boss the Social Justice Paladin.
I am so tired.
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Date: 2020-08-08 06:42 am (UTC)