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Mary Rees:  Good morning, we'll give, I guess I should say good afternoon, uh, we'll give people just a couple minutes to come on board. Happy first day of fall

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2020.

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Good afternoon, we'll wait just another minute or two, while people join us, for our Moorpark College campus update April 17.

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Well, good afternoon, and welcome to Moorpark College campus update April 17 2020, very exciting, this is our first day back for fall 2020.

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We've got a lot of exciting information for you a lot of

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processes and things to talk through, just as a reminder that the campus update is being recorded, usually you would look at the bottom of your screen and click CC for closed captioned.

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For some reason our closed captioner is not here yet, but when she does come, we will notify you,

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I do apologize for that. If we're not able to get it closed captioned as we're ongoing, just to let you know, oh, closed caption is available now, my

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that's fabulous. So if you are interested in having the campus update viewing it as closed captioned,

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please click the CC at the bottom of your screen that will allow you to see a closed captioned as we go through the update.

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The update is going to be is being recorded and it will be transcribed and it will be posted on the President's website,

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where all of the campus updates. We have been doing campus updates all summer. If you have not been able to join us, that is, they are there as a resource for you if you would, so wish, so on that note...Dr.

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Julius Sokenu: Hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome to fall 2020,

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it's a pleasure to see you, and engage with you again this, this Monday morning, Monday afternoon lunchtime.

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First of all, a big, big, big thank you to everybody who is being involved in

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our screening and campus returning to campus process.

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I want to first start of by giving a big kudos to John Everlove and to Jennifer Clark, who have really spearheaded this activity to get us back and those of us who are back on campus safely, and allegiance of folks who have provided some good insight and feedback as we

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develop this process and as John and Jennifer and their team have done phenomenal work making sure that the checking, the screening, the interactions have been

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seamless, they have been excellent customer service to whomever comes through and they've also been really in the spirit of Moorpark, which is, you know, delightfully engaging, engaging our community, engaging one another.

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Thank to you Cherisse Meichtry, thank you to Mariel, thank you to the screeners from the EMT program,

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both those who are currently MC students and those who are graduates, one of the things I'm discovering about our college, is that long after people have left us, they still have such a favorable

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experience with us that they are willing to really come back and support us. So a lot of the folks you will see

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during at the screening stations are folks who are alumni of Moorpark College,

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and John Everlove, as some of you know is an alumni of Moorpark College. So we've done great work, and you see that great work continue as our alumni

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going into the world and then they come back and give back to us in meaningful ways. So thank you to all

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in supporting this activity. Everything has been pretty straightforward and almost seamless this morning and we're grateful to you for that. I will let both John and Jennifer talk to you more detail about the screen from today, so you get that information from them.

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I also wanted to go ahead and acknowledge the outstanding work that was done by the Professional Development Committee and, particularly, I wanted to call out and share a shout out to Brian Burns our professional development coordinator,

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it is a [background noise] heavy lift to coordinate Flex and Professional Development week, and he has risen to the occasion every single time, and even under the circumstances this year, he has been able, alongside a team of phenomenal presenters and phenomenal support to that program,

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provided a, an enriching and dynamic, as well as really student focused and learner focused

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professional development activities. You can connect and review some of the, all of the professional development workshops, once they are being closed captioned and ready to go;

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Brian will be sharing that information with the college community, but just for now, I just want to say very big thank you to him. I also want to thank Dina Pielaet, I want to thank Erik Reese, I want to thank Linda Resendiz, I'd like to thank David Katz,

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whose, whose presentations during Convocation,

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were not only inspiring and empowering, but they also bring us back to the essence of Moorpark College, which is that we're a community learning together and we're a community sharing that knowledge with one another with our students and bettering our experiences human beings.

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And that reminds me, I do need to say a brief thank you to those individuals who presented during the course of the day.

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The folks who presented as part of the social justice work groups, to the phenomenal exercise dance exercise routine professor Beth Megill, I appreciate and thank you all for our outstanding engagement and you know the student

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video from the

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the learning center again, another proof of the great work we do here at Moorpark College and how our students have been able to make meaningful, meaningful,

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meaningful art out of that

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learning.

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I also want to go ahead and just share with you know, some of some of our enrollment information enrollment data so that you're aware of it. Moorpark College is

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up in terms of there's an increase in head count in comparison to last year, the same time last year, we're up 1.91%, kudos to our Outreach folks kudos, kudos to our marketing folks, kudos to each one of you. One of the reasons that I believe that we are

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really increasing in our head count is really the reputation of the college has.

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Folks believe in the ability, of Moorpark College to prepare them and their family members for transfer for high reach high skill careers and to prepare them for a meaningful life.

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and we see that, that a lot of our new students, the students who either were at a four year institution and have chosen to stay home and so they come back to us or they're students who would gone to a four year institution,

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and they chose to stay home and come to us, to begin their higher education and we are the beneficiaries of that because we have that reputation

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of being the best community college preparing for transfer to the four year institutions. Our unit count is, is down by

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0.63%, the district wide is down by 5.31% so if students are taking fewer units, this

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[background noise] a pattern or trend for the past few years, our hope is that we can keep informing our students that if they can take 15 units, then they need 15 units to finish in time. If they can't, we understand, but then we encourage students we can to take 15 units in time.

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I'm excited about the opportunities that the fall semester present us and given in a in a Covid context and with 90% of an instruction online and 10% on ground,

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we are still we are still meeting the needs of our community and the needs of our students and doing the very best we can,

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and I appreciate each and every one of you as you live with and live through current context and situation. I will pass the mic, so to speak, to Dr. Jennifer Clark, Vice President of Business.

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Jennifer Clark: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the first day of class of the fall semester 2020.

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Little different, but hey, but it's going we're up and running, things are going very well. Thank you Julius for you, your kind words, as far as our program, our screening program is concerned, yes, everything is going well.

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I'm not going to say a whole lot. I just want to stress a couple two or three reminders to everybody.

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John Everlove is going to go over just in a few minutes, some more details about this morning's operation.

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But I did want to say that, please remember that if you are regularly scheduled to be on campus, whether you are an essential employee and you've been sort of working in an office once a week, twice a week, whatever that approved

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rate or frequency is you're you're on the list, so to speak,

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you don't need any prior approval to come onto campus so you don't need to contact your dean or your supervisor, because your, your time on campus has already been approved;

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however, you do need to have to park in one of the open parking lots. Please help us with this effort. We did see that there were some cones moved

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some people were parking in areas where they should not, please, please, please help us set a good example. Follow the follow the signs, park in the designated parking spots.

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I realize, some of you are accustomed to parking in a different place, maybe it's more convenient for you closer to wherever you work. We beg you, we ask you, please, please, please, you must comply

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and park in either parking lot F or G, down near the Campus Center, or in the on the other end of campus in the M parking lot or in the, the PA parking lot. So those are the park- the large parking lot up by EATM and the music building, the performing arts building, those are fine to park in. [background noise]

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Please keep in mind that if you are not regularly scheduled to come onto campus, if you've been coming in periodically or to pick up your mail,

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if you have office hours, that kind of thing, that's not, you know, like a regular it's not part of your regular time here on campus,

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please, you need to go through your dean, you need to let your dean know, you plan to be on campus, get their approval,

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with a copy to Lynda Dobson so she's aware so she can let Campus Police and our custodial staff again know, you know, who's been on campus and what areas so that we can be sure to make sure that those areas are disinfected, that is super important.

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And then also, once you have that approval, then you again park in one of the designated parking lots,

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and that you go through one of the screening tents. There are two screening tents up the top of campus by EATM and the PA area. There are two there, and then there's one down by the at the top of the stairs by the Academic Center.

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I was on campus for a few hours this morning, got my wristband, things were going very, very well.

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We didn't have any hitches whatsoever. I'm very happy to say, and we've been hearing from people this morning that they're very impressed, that the process has been very quick. They were surprised that it was so quick, very efficient.

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So, you know, we haven't we haven't seen any queues, any long queues or anything like that.

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Probably one o'clock, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen, probably about one o'clock this afternoon. So we'll wait and see what happens. That's going to be probably the worst of it,

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but for the first few hours this morning, absolutely, it was great, quick, efficient, no problem, everybody had a smile on their face thankful and grateful for the process  it was really, really good.

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I did want to also just remind everybody that there are no exceptions to the being screened first on campus rule.

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We even, we have students, for example, that are coming on campus for 5 or 10 minutes only to pick up books that they've pre-ordered,

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all of those persons must be screened before they come on campus, even though they're only going to be on for 5 or 10 minutes

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just stopping by a window and then going home, they must go through one of the screening tents. Again, it's a very, very quick and efficient process. It will only add an extra minute or two.

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But please spread the word that we ask everybody comply with those rules. That is all that I have, I'm going to now, thank you very much, I'm going to pass the mic back over to Mary.

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Mary: Thank you, Jennifer. I think this is so exciting. I think we've been waiting for a little bit more of our

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back to normal kind of a thing, for most of us the campus is still where 90% online, and you all are providing absolute excellence in education, the usual "moor-parking it,"

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we do have some on ground courses or courses with some on ground component, I should say. We have about 10% of our courses that have some type of an on ground component.

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There was a question in the Q&A that said "Because Ventura County is on the watch list, what, how does that impact what we do here at Moorpark?" Because Moorpark it because Ventura County is on the watch list, there are no lectures on ground,

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no lectures on ground, we have our courses that are all online. We have the courses that do because they are essential classes or because they're in the tier ones and tier twos.

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We do have activities and lab courses which are approved by the county to continue their on ground presence, following PPE and social distancing all of the safety requirements as defined by the county.

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So, we have also been asked by the county because of our current status on the, the watch list to wait for the month of August,

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for our ICA, our Kinesiology, our performing arts, our Dance, our FTMA courses are all online for this month and then we the county will re evaluate where we are after Labor Day for those particular courses.

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So we are have our 90% online. We have, approximately 10% have some component of on ground, and some of those courses are starting off this semester completely online because of

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excuse me, because of Ventura County's current status on the watch list, we want to make sure that those numbers get down before we bring additional students onto campus.

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There was a question about "Do we need apps to visit campus?" and I'm not really sure what that means, but we have two different ways of coming to campus. If you are a

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tier one or tier two course and or an essential employee on campus, then you need to have downloaded the app onto your phone or computer,

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and you need to fill out the pre-screening that says, goes over and John Everlove will go over all of that shortly here.

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And then when you come on campus, you will go through the pre-screening for your temperature, and then you will be given a wristband that says that you're okay

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for that particular day to come on campus for that particular time. If you leave campus and then come back, you need to go back through the screening tent,

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okay, so hopefully that works. Just as a reminder that you need to wear a mask. There's some wonderful signage all over campus, it says "Masks are required on campus,"

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okay, masks are required on campus.

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So wanted to remind people of that. Another, just a quick reminder is this is a whole new experience for most of us, with so much of an online component, we've been doing it in the spring, when we all move remotely, the summer for some of

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the some of us that were around over the summer, our offerings over the summer we're also all online. The fall, we have the online and

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few 10 percentage-ish that have some kind of a on ground component.

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In our class schedule, we define our expectations for the students. When the students, sign up for a course, they look at the course they're signing up for and they either sign up for a hybrid where they realize that there's going to be an online, and an on ground component,

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or they sign up for an online course,

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and we have two variations what we're offering, currently. We have a asynchronous, which is your classical online in that the students can take part in the

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educational opportunities at their own, the students own schedule or we have synchronous classes,

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and the synchronous classes are recorded in the class schedule as far as where it says "location", it'll say "Zoom" it has a specific date and time for the students so that the students know

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that they need to participate in that particular course, at that day... of the week at that particular time via a

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online or remote pedagogy, but there's a specific day and time required to that. if your courses listed as just a an asynchronous, I shouldn't say just, is listed as a online

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asynchronous course, then your student correctly has no expectations that they need to be, and be online at a particular Tuesday at 10 O'clock type of a thing.

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So I want to make sure that we're, we're really clear on that so that our students understand what our expectations are,

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and our expectations are lined out for them, are laid out for them on the course schedule and in your syllabus. So do make sure that your syllabus clearly states the expectations, that the rooms, if you are

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on ground that are correct, so that we make sure for police and for cleaning custodians that we have it all set up properly.

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The next slide then, thank you.

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Just to go over, one of the big things for our students because we have such an online presence this fall for so many of our students,

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and we want to be there and provide for them, and many of them have cell phones but once they really get into the class, I think that

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there's a big concern, will they have the appropriate technology in order to be successful. If your students do not have a computer,

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if your students do not have the internet access, to be successful in the class, we want to be able to provide those resources for your students.

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So if your students do need a lender laptop, we do want to lend them a laptop, okay? So, faculty, staff, please if you hear about a students in need,

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please email the division office. The dean will then send an email request to the to my office to the Academic Affairs office and then we will approve that request and contact IT and

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also contact Linda Resendiz, who lovely keeps a big track of all of our lending activities going on. And the Moorpark Help Desk will send out an email to the students that tells them how they will sign up for a time to come on campus in order to pick up their laptop.

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So we do have laptops, we also have Chromebooks. So if, when you notify

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the division office about the needs of your students, if you have an understanding of what the need is that will be help, be helpful.

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Many students a Chromebook will be provide what they need, and if so that's what we would like to do, if they need the laptop,

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absolutely, and some of them are going to need a laptop which particular software.

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We do know that there are many of our programs that require fairly complex software and we want to work with our students and work with you to make sure our students have what they need to succeed. I want to call out that many of our programs have been extremely innovative as far as

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we have loaner laptops, we also, looks like we're going to have loaner

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what is it called, spinning wheels for ceramics, sewing machines,

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some equipment in the Biology, different areas where they

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the students have particular things that they need in order to be successful, things that we have here on campus and we are going to do our best to try to make sure that we're able to get resources to students so that they can succeed.

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So do reach out. Also do encourage your students to

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reach out to Financial Aid, if they have not filled out a FAFSA form, please encourage them to do so, that opens up so many resources for our students, and too often we're just overly concerned that this is too complicated, a process to fill out.

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I've done it with my daughters.

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They will, Financial Aid is more than willing, they've got videos, they've got trainings for how to help people fill out these forms. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes to fill out this form.

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and it opens up such resources for our students. We have several grants, CARES grants and a block grant, now, which provides direct aid for our students. So please encourage if you have students, and we know we do students with specific needs,

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do reach out and help them to fill out these forms, help them by forwarding their request for computers or equipment so that we can help meet those needs for our students. Next slide. Thank you.

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Speaking of resources, we've got other resources, for both our students and for our faculty and staff.

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The DE Department has done incredible work as you all know, for providing the support that so desperately needed both for the faculty and for the students. The Faculty DE Support go to "Moorpark online faculty help" that's "Moopark online faculty help" just a run on at vcccd.edu. [on screen text: mconlinefacultyhelp@vcccd.edu]

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There is DE Support drop-in, we could even call it office hours,

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Michael from 4 to 5, Monday through Thursday, Tracie from noon to 1, Tuesday through Friday. They're there to help the faculty and the staff

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get comfortable, make sure to answer any of your technology and your Distance Ed questions.

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For many of the students, this is a new world as well and they also need the technology support. So we have a wonderful support system for the students.

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Go to Moorpark or "mc online student help". So for our student online support, you go to "mc online student help", [on screen text: mconlinestudenthelp@vcccd.edu] there's also a phone number there,

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so that our students can reach out and get technical help, so that they can succeed in their online courses, okay, so we have resources for faculty and staff and for students, to help people adjust to the online world. There was a mentioned about the next slide.

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Great, sorry.

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Amanuel, one more second here. About office hours.

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People should not come into campus for office hours.

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I can understand people might want to, but we need to be very clear that people need to, faculty and staff come onto campus only if you're essential worker, only have your class that's already been approved, and you don't come in for additional time or office hours,

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only come in for your class. Okay? I hope that things will open up in the future we might be able to add this as a resource available to our faculty

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and staff, but it is not currently. We need to limit the number of people on campus, so we can do this as safely as possible. So please do not come in for your office hours.

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They need to be done remotely online.

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The office hours as according to the contract, at least three hours at designated times and two hours can be by appointment, but we want to make sure that there's no barriers for our students do

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come in to be part of office hours. Thank you. Amanuel?

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Amanuel Gebru: Thank you Mary...

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good afternoon, everyone. Just a few quick updates from the students support side, ACCESS is accepting applications through email, all the forms are online,

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and if you have any students as requesting accommodations, please refer them to ACCESS, Silva, and her team are still willing to accommodate them.

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In addition to that, confidential memos will be emailed to all faculty, as they are requested by students, so please check your email for that information,

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and I will also be posting this information on the chat, so that you can have access to Silva's information as well as the ACCESS office for any questions you have, in regards to supporting our ACCESS students.

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Also Raider Central we've hired a part time provisional employee 16 hours a week, Tim Lumas,

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who will be supporting our students who are in need and also our partnership with Ruben Castro.

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So I will post that link for any students who need additional food or resources, please refer them to the link for our Raider Central information and that will be posted as well.

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We sent a student services syllabus last week, so we made some updates and changes to it. We've also made it accessible. So we will resend that information, if you haven't gotten it, but I will also post that in the chat, so you can have access to that information as well.

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As we have, many of our services open, students who have questions for counseling, registration, any type of support services that they need,

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please refer them to our students services web page. In addition to that, our online student services help desk with a phone number

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I will post that in the chat so that you can refer students who may have some challenges, questions, or any concerns. We want to be able to support them. So, welcome back. Thank you for all that you do to help our students. And that's all I have Mary.

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Mary: Thank you.

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Thank you, Amanuel. I appreciate it.

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Next, going through the questions we've had

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questions, there was some problem with Zoom this morning. We do appreciate people's flexibility

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and working through alternate ways on that. Wi Fi for camp- for students. Jennifer, there was a question about Wi Fi availability for students on campus.

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Jennifer: Yeah, I was looking at those and over the summer, of course, we had the WiFi available on the parking lot,

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at this point that the parking garage is not available for students. So we're gonna you know at this point, no, the parking lot is not somewhere where, you know, students can park to access the WiFi,

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you know, that isn't something, we'll have to come back and maybe update the campus on that if there's a workaround. Right now, really, there isn't, and we're not encouraging that students, you know, hang around a lot on campus,

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so that's something that we're going to have to try to work through.

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Mary: So we'll be working on a solutions for that and options and then get back with people.

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There was a question about web cams whether we be able to be providing web cams for students.

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Jennifer: Well, again, I, I think, just like now web cams, web cams unlike laptops are actually difficult to procure. Those are one of those items that are very, very difficult to get

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a hold of. To my knowledge, we do not have any extra ones hanging around. I know that we've tried on many occasions to buy some...

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we will continue to do so. And if we at whatever point have enough so that we can start to loan them out to students, you know, we will let the campus know but at this time it's very, very difficult to get these things.

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Mary: Jennifer. My understanding is the computers that are being led to do have web cams?

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Jennifer: I. Yes, that's correct. So if they do have a laptop that they've borrowed from the campus those laptops all do have cameras. So, that is also an option if students

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you know, have an old piece of technology at home doesn't have a camera, maybe it's a little slow, we can certainly learn them a laptop. We have plenty available. So that's another option at this point. Mary: Thank you.

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There was a question about spring and I love it. We're, we're not even we're half a day in and and we at Moorpark are planning ahead. Thank you Ruth. I love

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Yes, what are we going to be doing for spring? Right now we're going to plan, just the same as for fall. We're going to plan that we have a 90%-10%, 90% online, 10% on ground.

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John Everlove do you want to join us and go over some of the screening?

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John Everlove: Yes, thank you Mary, I'm on campus. So that's the first time I've done a presentation with Zoom by phone. So hopefully, it turns out, okay.

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I just wanted to point out to everybody that over my shoulder to the left, you'll see our PA screening tent location. This is next to a performing arts building and our comm building,

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it is staffed with approximately four personnel now and as I turn this way, you will get a look at our M building screening location.

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That location is set up by our, our other for personnel for our music parking lot location. It's also helping to serve the students going to EATM.

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The screening process as many people have pointed out is going very well it

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is supported by the technology put together by the IT department from the community college district and we really appreciate their efforts and then also the Moorpark College staff IT department that was able to put together

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an infrastructure to support our app. The app itself, we had a couple of

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learning opportunities, this morning, nothing that was significant though, and certainly nothing of what we had expected given the short turnaround time and the hard work, everybody put in

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everything went very, very well. So we've been able to screen and capture everybody coming on campus, effectively. Just want to remind people of a couple of things that are going to be very helpful as you come on campus.

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Please complete the screening app prior to coming on campus so that we can ensure that that process is faster and more efficient when you actually show up.

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When we get to the, to the screening portion itself, we want to make sure that we were able to take someone's temperature,

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be able to record that temperature, and then move on to the next participant without having any challenges. So you'll see the participant

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process, when you come, prior to coming on campus.

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You'll see the icon on the top left, which enters into the screening checklist and allows you to answer those pre-screening questions before you walk on campus, so we can

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merely have you scan a QR code and take your temperature, put that temperature inside the the app and then

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issue you a wristband so that you can continue on with your daily routine.

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That process is working very well, and as you can see we have students coming on campus here at Moorpark and we've had guests. We've had people picking up their books.

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All of them are participating in this process, and if they can't, we've got that backup form process where we can issue a piece of paper and a pen had people complete this checklist on their own

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then take their temperature and record it and complete the screening process in the same way.

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Our purpose in this process is to make sure that everybody coming on campus is screened

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to provide an on campus environment that is safe for everybody that's participating and so far we've been able to effectively do that.

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So here are the questions again regarding symptoms, and again, we're just going to remind people, if you're feeling symptomatic, please don't come to the campus. If any of these boxes check off yes for you,

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please don't come to campus either confirm with your health care provider or the Student Health Center before you make any attempts to come here.

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The face covering and mask wearing process has been fantastic. Everybody's doing a great job of complying with it.

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We're doing a really proactive job at our screening locations to make sure that if you come of campus, you have an appropriate face covering

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and that you're not wearing something that's going to be ineffective regarding everyone safety. Department of Public Health guidelines still being adhered to and we're capturing all those people that we

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that we're looking to come on campus and making sure that they're safe.

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As a reminder, based on the screening locations, there are a couple of places to park on campus. I know you've been told these before.

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We are seeing people though that are parking in areas that are not designated and missing some of the screening locations, because of it.

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We want to make sure that everybody gets screened. So the green boxes on the campus map show exactly where the screening locations are again over my shoulder is the M tent,

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and as we turn our pan over towards my left shoulder than that is the PA tent that is located over by the comm building,

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and then the other tent location is over by the Academic Center on the other side of campus.

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There have been no queue issues, meaning no one waiting in long lines to get on campus.

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In fact, we're screening people within approximately 20 to 30 seconds, once they complete the app and they take their have their temperature taken. So there's no delay.

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And right now it's a beautiful day at Moorpark, and although it's a little lighter than we'd like to see the campus population,

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we're very grateful to be a part of bringing everybody on campus that we can. I just like to thank all the support staff.

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All the people that are working behind the scenes and not on camera, that are really putting in the heavy lifting on this to make this happen. So

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thank you to FM & O, thank you to the executive team, the faculty, the classified staff, everybody that's got their fingerprints on this because this has been a complete college commitment and fortunately we're seeing good results.

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Mary: John, a couple of questions would you go back a little bit further and tell us how we get this app?

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John: Yes, thank you, Mary. So the VCCCD app can be downloaded on your phone by going into either the play store on an Android device or the iTunes

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section of your iPhone. If you don't have that, we also have QR codes at our tent locations where you can scan the QR code and it will bring up the app. We're very hopeful though that you'll complete the process at home first, download that Ventura County Community College District app,

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and then you'll see that once you log in and create a profile, you'll see the icon for the screening process,

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as part of [background noise] the app itself.

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Mary: Thank you.

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There was a couple of questions about

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students clearly needing computers, students needing Internet access, and perhaps needing a place like [background noise] the library for computer access, if we could get more information on the extent of need for a

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computer center where students would need to come on to, we'll look into providing that, we need some information as far as how many students, and what their specific needs are. So please [background noise] notify your deans about specific request, people have.

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Currently the library is not open.

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It is open, I shouldn't  say that, it's not

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currently open for students to come into the library. Resources are available there are amazing resources available online from our library.

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As well as our loaner library, our loaner textbook system is still ongoing, and we are providing loaner textbooks to our students.

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So we have a lot of activity going on there. If we do need to set up a computer lab, we just need a little bit more information on what kind of

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computers are needed, what kind of time of day, and the number of students and we of course will try to work on what we can do to provide those needs. So please notify us and let us know so that we can

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can deal with that. Amanuel, there was a question about fillable forms and signing and things like that. Can you kind of update us on where we are on all of that?

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Amanuel: What's the question, Mary in regards to fill out forms?

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Mary: Sure for ACCESS, there's some questions about the forms, if we can provide them online to make it easier or what we're doing? I think it's a bigger question,

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beyond the ACCESS as far as what we can do to make our forms, more accessible digital digitally?

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Amanuel: I'll touch base with Silva and see what we come up with and then maybe we'll send something out to the campus.

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Mary: Thank you.

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So, so also just sharing Cranium Cafe is what counselors use. Do you want. Can you explain that a little bit Amanuel about what our counselors are doing to help our students?

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Amanuel: Sorry, can you hear me?

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Mary: Yes.

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Amanuel: I'm having some technical issues, so, our counselors are able to meet with our students via Cranium Cafe, via live online version, via chat, and then also for those that don't have those type of access, also by phone.

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And that's the same Cranium Cafe's what we'll also be using to also answer questions for students who

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will be using our virtual welcome center when that's up and ready should be going the next couple of days.

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But in the meantime, that's why I posted the Help De- Help Desk information for students to be able to reach out to Counseling and any other services in regards to appointments or questions they have.

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Mary: Thank you so much.

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Julius, do you have some last some additional comments for us?

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Julius: Just want to wish everyone a safe and productive fall semester.

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Students expect that their lives will go on, and we are know, also know that our lives will go on irrespective of the pandemic. This is another way of making sure that to get back to the normalcy and I know that is a challenge.

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And that, you know, we, we are, we're getting adjusted to this new normal, so to speak, and for everyone who is attempting to reach out to students,

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for everyone who is attempting to make sure that the services that they provide online equals what they've done on ground and in person, we understand, we're here to support you, we thank you.

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We know it's going to be tough semester on a lot of levels, but we also know just from this morning, we can also see how there's so much enthusiasm and there's so much hope, and part of it is making sure we keep that front and center, you know, the productivity front and center, the

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enthusiasm front and center. We are doing, you know, phenomenal work, irrespective of the contents, you know, enrollment as a college, in terms of our headcount is up,

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and so I think we continue to do the best that we do, offer our students and be available for one another.

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Communication, communication, communication, please let me know, let us know if something is a problem, please share that information with your supervisors, share with your colleagues, share it with me,

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Mary or Amanuel, or Jennifer, or the dean or whomever, let us know how we can help make things better, that is our responsibility to you and that is our responsibility to our students, as a group. Thank you so much and have a great, great, great fall semester.