COVID-19 Planning

If/when there is an outbreak of COVID-19 in the Twin Cities or greater region serviced by MICE are there any policies the MICE community wants to implement? For example, a daytime change freeze, especially given the expected increase in the prevalence of remote work or remote teaching as a response to an outbreak.

Cologix: Coronavirus Policy Statement

https://cologix.box.com/s/obl0s8todzc7q8ctlnkj4pymyqf2gdni

University of Minnesota: Health Alert: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

https://safe-campus.umn.edu/public-health-alerts

Minnesota Department of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/index.html

Also, many of you service K12, other colleges, local or regional government agencies that you may want to reach out to and help coordinate their remote work or remote teaching responses to an outbreak.

For example at the University of Washington in Seattle: Starting Monday, March 9, classes will no longer be meeting in person. For the remainder of the quarter, instructors are asked to conduct classes and/or exams remotely, as possible, until the quarter concludes on March 20.

https://www.washington.edu/teaching/topics/teaching-and-learning-when-classes-cant-meet/

Thanks

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David Farmer    Email:farmer@umn.edu
Networking & Telecommunication Services
Office of Information Technology
University of Minnesota
2218 University Ave SE Phone: 612-626-0815
Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029   Cell: 612-812-9952
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