A summary of some new news related to CUNY's and CSI's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. See https://csi-covid19.github.io for the archive.
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link The College Council and Faculty Senate Executive Committees sent a letter to the President and Provost with the plea:
Please find a letter backed by the overwhelming majority of the executive committees representing the entirety of the college governance at CSI. We urge you, as we have in the recent past, to adopt a different system to handle the unprecedented challenges we face as a community. Together we can work though this, divided, we stand little chance of emerging as a strong and vibrant institution.
link (with password: 3T+15673) Link to the zoom recording of the Faculty Senate Town Hall. Next best thing to being there....
link Library resources email
link Links to World on Wednesday lecture series
link New Blog entries at the UFS (with one on the budget outlook as of last week).
link An Op-Ed by Matt Brim for the Gotham Gazette.
link Governor Cuomo says:
The state and the Gates Foundation will consider what education should look like in the future, including:
How can we use technology to provide more opportunities to students no matter where they are;
How can we provide shared education among schools and colleges using technology;
How can technology reduce educational inequality, including English as a new language students;
How can we use technology to meet educational needs of students with disabilities;
How can we provide educators more tools to use technology;
How can technology break down barriers to K-12 and Colleges and Universities to provide greater access to high quality education no matter where the student lives; and
Given ongoing socially distancing rules, how can we deploy classroom technology, like immersive cloud virtual classrooms learning, to recreate larger class or lecture hall environments in different locations?
Rumors from Baruch are that the second half of the CARES funding can be used to replace the expected state cuts (to some degree). This is not official.