Safe Together, Strong Together features health experts, community leaders and CMU faculty
pp电子极速糖果 is planning to return to campus and will pursue in-person instruction and learning for the Fall 2020 semester. 为了铺平道路, CMU President Tim Foster announced the Safe Together, 强大的共同规划倡议. The move was announced in an email to students, parents, faculty and staff.
The university moved all courses online last March for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Summer courses will remain online as the campus task force completes the Safe Together, 强强联合行动计划. The formal plan will in turn guide a safe return to in-person instruction.
“安全在一起, Strong Together is an integrated planning process that includes health authorities from Mesa County Public Health, 社区医院及圣. Mary’s Hospital,” said CMU President Tim Foster. “Combining their expertise with the knowledge base of our faculty experts should result in the best available science and data we need to protect the health and safety of the campus community as we return to campus. ”
The campus-wide effort includes a list of formal focus area task force committees that will formalize sections of the campus operations plan. The operations plan will specify program-by-program, facility-by-facility what campus life will look like in the fall. June 2020 is the target date for completion of the plan.
The Safe Together, Strong Together initiative was posted on the CMU COVID-19网站 and includes an outline of the process’ leadership team. CMU Physicians Assistant Program Director Amy Bronson, EdD, will serve as a co-chair along with Vice President for Student Services John Marshall. The co-chairs were appointed by Foster to help support the project committees.
"The goal is to create a rigorous science and health-focused plan that acknowledges the existence of COVID-19 in our community. The safer/stronger approach will help us re-envision what the campus community will look like, and how we can build a safe campus community, 考虑到现实,布朗森说. “I am honored to serve students and my colleagues in this role and am anxious to continue our work.”
The planning initiative begins as CMU announces the pilot opening of the Hamilton Recreation Center, The Maverick Store and several outdoor recreation facilities. The limited openings begin on May 11 and include limited hours of operation. The preliminary openings occurred after review from area medical experts and were approved by Mesa County Public Health.
"The approach CMU has taken to ensure the health and safety of Mesa County while considering the needs of their campus community is appreciated,” said Mesa County Health Public Health Executive Director Jeff Kuhr, 博士学位. “Mesa County Public Health wanted to make sure their plan took into account all the unique circumstances this response demands. Their thoughtful, deliberate and collaborative approach is a model for others."
CMU Director of Campus Recreation Lynn Wilson manages the Maverick Recreation Center and is optimistic about reopening the facility.
“Our team worked through the previous week creating signage and procuring supplies needed to comply with state and local health protections including social distancing measures, 设备消毒程序, virus screening and facility management,威尔逊说. “Higher risk areas in the recreation center remained closed like the locker room and the natatorium. This go-slow approach is appropriate and necessary to keep people safe.”
Community Hospital was among the CMU community partners who provided consultation on CMU's approach to longer-term planning as well as the near-term opening of select facilities. The hospital's President and CEO Chris Thomas has made his team's expertise available to campus leaders during the last several weeks including administrative advisors as well as Community Hospital's expert on infectious disease, 李由美, MD.
“We are committed to assisting pp电子极速糖果 navigate the very complex and challenging aspects of COVID-19,托马斯说。. “As CMU looks to bring back students to campus in the fall, we share their mission to keep our entire community as safe as possible.”
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