philip.hunt: Noon everyone my name is Phil hunt on the new university registrar pleased to be here in Fargo and that India's in at in the issue. I will say,
philip.hunt: You know it's one heck of a time and get started. But I'm very, very confident that we'll be able to get through this together. I know that it's been a challenge.
philip.hunt: For a lot of folks as we move into some uncharted territory, so please know that while Cove, it is is giving us some things to consider.
philip.hunt: That we're going to do everything that we can best assist you and and our students as we are allowed and permitted to do so.
philip.hunt: So just going to go ahead and get started. I don't have a lot. I just want to kind of lay out the framework of what what we've been doing
philip.hunt: In terms of classroom scheduling and really just to open the floor up to ask any questions that you may all have or address any concerns. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to get started here. So as I'm sure that you've heard on some of the prior communications.
philip.hunt: My office through the request of the President and Provost we've been asked to explore the possibility and impact of moving our classes to 50% capacity. Why, because
philip.hunt: The administration wants to make sure that the faculty feel safe in the classroom and that they heard your, your concerns. So what does this mean
philip.hunt: Know that we're not placing a 50% seat cap on your sections. What we are doing within our office is we are merely finding spaces that can accommodate your full section size we're only using 50%
philip.hunt: Of the classroom space. So for example, if you have a section that's capped out 100 what we have to do is we went ahead and we programmed our scheduling optimizer to look for a space that can minimally fit 200 or more students
philip.hunt: Okay, so about a week or two ago my team that began running scenarios and looking at classroom space utilization
philip.hunt: And I'm happy to report that of the 4200 sections that we offer here at in the issue, we were able to find rooms without conflicts for 98% of them.
philip.hunt: Which is phenomenal. This means that of all of your sections for all of your sections, minus the folks that we've already started reaching out to and speaking with
philip.hunt: You have a room, you have a time and you have a space on the same day in time that you previously did. The only difference is the space may be different.
philip.hunt: And that's really my update. And so I want to kind of ask answer any questions that that you have. So I'm going to go ahead and open the floor.
philip.hunt: And I think who's moderating from a day. Christy you're moderating so let's just go ahead and get started.
kristi steinmann: One of the questions was,
kristi steinmann: Shouldn't we be working around a recommended six foot distance not class occupancy
kristi steinmann: If you can address that question. That's good.
philip.hunt: Yeah. Sure, happy to address that this was a conversation that
philip.hunt: I had a dress with a couple of different groups. I know I spoke about it earlier on when I got here with the chairs and the teens.
philip.hunt: ran through a couple of different scenarios. Looking at our data. And that was six foot 75% capacity 6550 and 55 based on six foot and our current class and space inventory that would mean for some let's take a section.
kristi steinmann: Let's take chemistry, for instance, that
philip.hunt: Has 391 students
philip.hunt: For us to accomplish six foot social distancing that meant we would have had to add seven more sections, just to make up for that one.
philip.hunt: And so because of that, that, that took the six foot off the table, mainly because we don't have the capacity to do it.
philip.hunt: And additionally, we
philip.hunt: The governor's guidelines had come out stating, you know that we were in green, and that it was permissible for us to go 75 but once again, looking to do what we think is best for faculty and the students. We wanted to go with 50 because we felt that that's what we could
philip.hunt: Still
philip.hunt: We can still do.
kristi steinmann: A couple of people have asked
kristi steinmann: When will they find out their room assignments or are they in campus connection yet.
philip.hunt: Yeah, so they're not yet in campus connection. We're still running tests just because we want to make sure that we get this correct. We hope to have that I would say, hopefully in a, in a few days, there are just a couple of
philip.hunt: scheduling conflicts that that we need to kind of tweak and we're still looking at adding some additional space inventory. So we have more options to spread people out
kristi steinmann: All right, and then
philip.hunt: Let me, let me add this as soon as that as soon as we go and we run that
philip.hunt: Report and everything is live a notification will be sent out to the faculty
kristi steinmann: Okay. And then there's a question of how students will be notified of that.
philip.hunt: Same thing, a notification will be sent out to students, letting them know that an update has been made and that to check their schedules to see where their new room assignments are
kristi steinmann: Okay, and our downtown buildings included in that same approach.
philip.hunt: Right now, yes. Yes, they are. They are there are some we are running into some constraints with Barry Hall, but we're working with those departments that are that are currently in Barrie right now and then. We're also exploring additional options for space downtown. Okay.
kristi steinmann: There was a question will scale up classes find themselves in an audio auditorium, or will they remain and like the scale up style.
philip.hunt: I'm not sure what you mean by scale up
Mark Strand: And I speak to that.
philip.hunt: Yes, please.
Mark Strand: Yeah, it is my question. So the scale up would be the rooms that are in the ag Hill Center, which has tables of nine seats around each table.
Mark Strand: The space in the room is probably at least twice the space of a similar classroom in terms of the number of seats per square meter.
Mark Strand: And so in my case, I have 99 seats and 73 students and I'm hoping to be able to do that based on a 75% capacity and given the fact that the room is so large and spread out.
Mark Strand: Is that something that can be allowed or negotiated or am I going to be required to either move that to offline or find some other venue to accommodate 73 students
philip.hunt: Yeah, so that's a great question. Great question. You know that they're there.
philip.hunt: The rooms in this building, give us a lot of opportunity, a lot of flexibility and we're actually able to accomplish better social distancing with more numbers in those classrooms. So we kind of had to take those out of our kind of template formula. And so those numbers will look a little
philip.hunt: Different but know that we were able to maximize capacity and space. And a lot of those classrooms, because of the
philip.hunt: Spacing of the room.
philip.hunt: Because even as the
philip.hunt: Pre cove it
philip.hunt: They, they weren't at full capacity, so to speak, because they're so large.
philip.hunt: That answer your question.
Mark Strand: Yes, thank you.
kristi steinmann: I am muted.
kristi steinmann: So the question. Do you mean the classroom will change. For example, previous classroom was for 100 students. Now we will be offered a bigger room instead of separating 100 students into two rooms. Each about 50
philip.hunt: Yeah, so that's the intent. We're trying to move you into one larger room. And then if we can't find that one largest place we still have the option of finding a space for you to teach concurrently it by using high flex
kristi steinmann: So then the question is the new room assignment, based on the classroom capacity with the whitelisted students
philip.hunt: It is not based on that.
philip.hunt: But here's what I would say to that. It depends on where where your class is so right now our caps at are at 75%
philip.hunt: Right. And so if you're weightless doesn't exceed the the pre covert cap which we're bringing to 100% it's going to include that number. So, yes.
philip.hunt: Because once we go and we hit the Go button on this your caps are going to go back up to 100% to where they were. And so we have adjusted for that.
kristi steinmann: Is there an official strategy for how we know what students want to be remote or what they'll need to go remote in which ones will be in person.
philip.hunt: Well that's been outside of my purview, so to speak. I know that there are some some courses, who the instructors were asked to go ahead and survey their faculty to get a sense of that.
philip.hunt: I'm not aware that there was any any standardized policy that went out across the university to do that.
kristi steinmann: And when what if a class has special interaction needs.
kristi steinmann: And that was a question from Bob here. You don't know if Bob can unmute and expand on that a little bit.
philip.hunt: Yeah. Bob, would you mind.
Robert Pieri (he/ him/ his): At all. But sometimes when I started talking. I can't remember to stop.
philip.hunt: Anyway, we have a moderator.
Robert Pieri (he/ him/ his): One of the things is like I'm teaching introductory
Robert Pieri (he/ him/ his): Freshman course and Mark kind of address this, too. I mean we we set up interactive classrooms. So the idea is that there'll be a group, they'll be working on some stuff.
Robert Pieri (he/ him/ his): Some in the classroom. Some out of the classroom and I've asked for Hill one to six because of the concrete floor the movable chairs, all of this stuff. You can't put that kind of class into a pseudo classroom.
Robert Pieri (he/ him/ his): Okay. And so that's what I was asking.
philip.hunt: Yeah, and so I, you know, I'll have to take a look at what we did, specifically, but it sounds like in speaking with our scheduler in here that yours would have not gone through the optimizer. So, but let's let's
Robert Pieri (he/ him/ his): chat about now you got 200 people mad at me now.
philip.hunt: Right. It all depends on what we were still able to look at some specifications for how courses are taught based on what the physical requirements, not what was wanted what was actually needed to teach in that space.
Robert Pieri (he/ him/ his): Sure. I'm glad I see bill law there. I'm glad he's happy he's probably not moving out of the music classrooms.
philip.hunt: Right. Oh yeah, we can chat offline to make sure we're where you need to be
Robert Pieri (he/ him/ his): Okay, that's great.
kristi steinmann: We've got another question kind of building off of that one ID studio speak spaces have been adjusted to accommodate to address 50% will additional communication be made to students.
philip.hunt: What is an IP space.
philip.hunt: Once again, I'm still learning so forgive me for not understanding all of the
kristi steinmann: Regular interior design.
Susan Ray-Degges: That's interior design and the spaces are now.
Susan Ray-Degges: Fixed to accommodate the students. My concern is, we've already talked to students. I know who's going to be here who's not going to be here. And we actually have a rotation.
Susan Ray-Degges: fixed up because that my understanding is, we have been told, because we're interior design spaces that we can adjust because we have specific spaces that are programmed spaces, nobody else's in those spaces.
philip.hunt: Yes.
Susan Ray-Degges: That was my concern is, I don't
Susan Ray-Degges: I don't want the students like getting different messages from all over the different places and then they're going to all be in an uproar.
philip.hunt: Know and and they won't. And what still in places. What was always been in place since beginning and that is for those labs and specialty spaces like studios, you can still have your students rotating in at 50%
Susan Ray-Degges: Okay, thank you.
kristi steinmann: It's great question a couple of classes about computer labs and what the plans are for those
philip.hunt: And I and my understanding is that computer labs are the same way. Right. And so in order to achieve that space. And because it's such a specialized space, you can still rotate your students in and out.
kristi steinmann: So a couple questions. The room assignment and campus connection is currently not correct. And we won't really know if they're staying in current rooms until we see updates. Is that correct,
philip.hunt: Where's that question. Who asked that question. Sorry, that
kristi steinmann: Was a little while ago. Um, I think. One was from carrion Platt, and another was Ronald day
philip.hunt: Well, let me say this, the information that you're seeing and campus connection so far as as as far as your enrollment numbers that information is correct.
philip.hunt: The only information that would not be correct right now would would be where your class will be located. Once we hit the book the Go button.
kristi steinmann: Will faculty be given a chance to agree with the change or will it be mandated that we move to the newly assigned space.
philip.hunt: Well, depends. I mean, how do you want to define agree.
philip.hunt: We, we are moving spaces.
philip.hunt: And we're going through this process.
philip.hunt: To find the best optimal space to accomplish the task at hand, which is 50% right and
philip.hunt: It takes
philip.hunt: Hold on. If the space doesn't meet your need, then yes, we can have a conversation about that and see if there's another space that's available to that may potentially meet your need.
Marty Douglas: The only reason I asked is, just because
Marty Douglas: I'm only over by a handful of students when it comes to the 50% and I know an 8am freshman lecture. There's gonna be lots of students who don't come each day. So I just don't know if I want to end up in a giant room when I had this
Marty Douglas: Room that might fit who comes on an actual day to day basis. That's the only reason I asked.
philip.hunt: A great question. Great question. Yeah. And once again we can we can take a look at where you are to see to
philip.hunt: To look at the space and see if there's if there's any leeway there, and also that that's the other big unknown. Right. We don't know how many students make art, just to say, on any given day. Hey, you know, I'm going to stay in my dorm room and watch class from here.
philip.hunt: But I'm glad you're thinking about that and we get we can definitely take a look at that. If you like to
kristi steinmann: A question.
kristi steinmann: Can instructors limit the number of students per class.
philip.hunt: You can it but here's, here's the thing that I'd be concerned about. One is, how are you planning on accommodating those students that need that course. Right. And so, you know, if you know normally that
philip.hunt: In your given section that you normally have 300 students that take that course. And that's been pretty consistent over the last couple of years.
philip.hunt: Especially if it's a first year course. How are you going to accommodate for that and we're not going to be limiting students. So if you already have, you know, 100 students enrolled. We can't just kick them out of a class.
Fardad Azarmi: Can I say something, it was my question.
philip.hunt: Yes, please.
Fardad Azarmi: Yeah, thank you. I'm teaching a large class with six sections of labs lab supposed to have like in each lab we supposed to have 16 students now based a new rules and capacity.
Fardad Azarmi: I'm thinking about maybe half of that. Now what I'm planning is like having teams students working in team and like every week, asking one student from one team.
Fardad Azarmi: Is allowed to come and see the lab work and and have been like a hands on experience and maybe take reports for for for other students. And I'm planning for this, but I am afraid that the end of the semester I received some some like feedbacks or professors kicked
Fardad Azarmi: Out of class didn't allow us to to participate and those kind of things.
philip.hunt: Now, and with a live class you're allowed to do that. So you're you're you're on good ground there you're able to make that adjustment. So yes, thank you for clarifying.
Fardad Azarmi: Thank you.
kristi steinmann: All right. Um, there's a question. How is the building circulation ILLUSTRATED FOR LIKE IN and OUT around rooms and corridors and I'm not sure if that's something that is in your wheelhouse, or if that's a mike ellingson questions.
philip.hunt: Not that's, that's my girl on some question.
kristi steinmann: I know Mike is on. I'm not sure if Mike's able to answer that one. I think the other day.
kristi steinmann: That one came up
michael.ellingson: On what we're doing in some of our buildings. If there's two sets of doors into a classroom, then we're doing an exit on one and or, on the other, but on a lot of the classrooms where there's only one door then it's you don't have any choice but to enter and exit at the same spot.
kristi steinmann: Um, I heard we might be getting maps of our classrooms seating to help create seating charts are these maps maps coming from registration and records or how do we get these maps.
philip.hunt: Mike, have we determine how we're doing that. I thought we were posting them somewhere.
Margaret Fitzgerald: The department heads and DNS and their assistance will have access to them and I'll be sending an email about the seating charts and our involvement in contact tracing as soon as I iron out a couple more details.
Margaret Fitzgerald: Right now the the seating chart show the existing arrangement of seating and I think Mike talked last week about
Margaret Fitzgerald: In some rooms facilities can remove chairs to limit seating and other rooms are going to cover like auditorium style seating to indicate where students can set, but then I think in some rooms.
Margaret Fitzgerald: That hose different sizes of classes marking may be a little more challenging but if
Margaret Fitzgerald: I'm speaking for Mike and he could probably speak for themselves. So
michael.ellingson: I'll jump in. Margaret, the original the plans that are currently out there, show the existing room as is and then the thought was, you know, you could have people said every other seat or whatnot.
michael.ellingson: That what's changed in the last week to week and a half is now we're fitting up some non traditional classroom, like in the great room or the
michael.ellingson: The plane room or the Memorial Union or the lower level of the library or different places. So now I'm having to find furniture and I'm going into some of these classrooms.
michael.ellingson: That have extra furniture and taking them out and relocating them, which is going to change the room arrangement that we previously have out there. So, are our draft or will have to be creating some new
michael.ellingson: Classroom layouts based on that.
philip.hunt: Thank you, Margaret. Thank you, Mike.
kristi steinmann: Here's a question kind of talking about some of those non traditional classroom, someone had a question. There's talk of moving classes to the shack, what will be done for extra time it would take for students to get to between class if that option is used
philip.hunt: Well, we're still exploring those situations where students may need extra time.
philip.hunt: And so that's that's that's still a TBD for us.
kristi steinmann: Okay, and then another similar question is should instructors plan shorter classes. So there's enough time for students to enter and exit rooms in buildings between classes.
philip.hunt: I think this was addressed previously in one of Margaret's calls where she where she answered that and Margaret. I don't mean to speak for you. But did you mentioned that some of that was instructor discretion.
Margaret Fitzgerald: I'm trying to remember which session that was. But yeah, it may be, if you're in a very large room that has one door, you may want to control the exit of your class go by rose or
Margaret Fitzgerald: Some strategy like that we haven't really talked about alternating the class schedule for the entire university because we're not sure
Margaret Fitzgerald: Yet how many classes are going to be in more remote spaces like the shack, or that cater Hall multi purpose room when we have a better handle on that will take a look at how many students might be affected, and what we need to do with scheduling.
Margaret Fitzgerald: Did that address your question.
carla.gross: Not sure who asked that question. Yeah, I asked it that it did. Thanks Margaret.
kristi steinmann: Another question. Should we start letting in whitelisted students now so they can be accounted for in those cap and the, the capacity numbers.
philip.hunt: Can you, but they are there, they are watching those waitlist so we can so we can accommodate them.
kristi steinmann: A question. Can you give us an idea when you expect to hit the button and have the new room assignments come out like end of the week, or what are you thinking on that.
philip.hunt: Oh, they were up to me, I would have had a few days ago, but
philip.hunt: We're still gathering room inventory. And with that, that means we have to put some of the specifications into our optimizer. There's a process for us to do that. And then, and then we run as as new space becomes identified. So, trust me. I want to get this
philip.hunt: Lot sealed and delivered to everybody, as much as you guys want to get it done. So I'm pushing to get this done. But at the same time being mindful that that we get it right and we have, we make informed decisions on what we're doing.
philip.hunt: And as information comes up that may impact certain departments on the be sure that will be reaching out to you as we've already started reaching out to some of them.
kristi steinmann: Um, the question. You mentioned classes would go back to their original class size once a new room has been found some of our classes have been reduced to 65 to 75% of room capacity. Does that mean they'll go back to their pre coven enrollment size. So in this case, it was from 90 to 135
philip.hunt: Yeah and that that's the plan. That's the plan primarily for those first year freshman lecture courses.
philip.hunt: Because we've got to get students in those classes because they need them to continue to progress. Now, if there are issues with those as you guys are hearing this, and we're having this
philip.hunt: Communication please reach out to me and let me know so we can figure out an alternative for how to address that. I just know that last week.
philip.hunt: With a 75% cap on some of those large freshmen courses we had to go in and manually adjust them back to their own
philip.hunt: Capacity cast and get students weren't able to get in and get the courses that they needed and that would definitely as you know impact them as they progress from semester. Semester.
kristi steinmann: Is the enrollment cap column in the course enrollment section status report currently based on 75%
Yes.
kristi steinmann: This is a question my class has a pre coven cap of 100 in a room for 103 when I checked. Today the CAP has been changed to the current enrollment with the waitlist turned on. Does this mean there was not a room available. So I'm kept until a room is found.
philip.hunt: No, no, that's, that's not what that means. I'm not sure I had to take a look at that. But we didn't make any additional adjustments more than what whatever already articulate it to to the to the section schedule.
kristi steinmann: Any suggestion to students if they need to commute to different locations from class to class or they required to do the social distance in the buses.
philip.hunt: That's that's outside of my wheelhouse at the moment.
philip.hunt: That's more of a question for either facilities or student student affairs.
michael.ellingson: Unfortunately, I'll be all fell up
michael.ellingson: And this is Mike again I'm mad bias is not our bosses, but through the city of Fargo, they do require face coverings. When you enter onto a bus. I don't think there's going to be a six foot distancing but that's why they're requiring face coverings.
philip.hunt: Right.
kristi steinmann: So another question about numbers for a class of someone says, We have a few CJ courses and thinking that's criminal justice courses that have enrollments above the classroom capacity.
kristi steinmann: So, for example, one course has 96 registered students, but the classroom capacity is 89. How do we deal with the overage of students.
philip.hunt: Well, that's a course that's going to be moved.
philip.hunt: That's of course that's going to be moved. If your pre Kovac cap was at that, you know, we need to once again we need to make sure that we accomplished social distancing. So if the room is not big enough to accomplish that, then your room will be changed.
kristi steinmann: Typically, students on whitelists are told to attend the first week working to enroll students, many first year, the only option is to get on multiple weightless. What would you suggest these students do
philip.hunt: Well, we are accommodating for students in the waitlist as long as it doesn't go over the pre enrollment cap so yes show up to class.
kristi steinmann: If we are moved to a remote site, site like The Shack or fargo Fargo dome. Will there be prioritized or reserved parking for instruction instructors will they need revised parking permits.
philip.hunt: Mike, I'm going to toss that one to you.
michael.ellingson: I was on and help you there.
michael.ellingson: We were working on the details on the parking it as we speak right now.
Margaret Fitzgerald: And at this time I am we're not really looking at the fargodome unless something changes, but
Margaret Fitzgerald: We're trying to stay within
Margaret Fitzgerald: A tighter radius of possible
kristi steinmann: Is there any requirement to report to your office if the class goes on goes remote due to attend a 14 day quarantine.
philip.hunt: No there's not. Because I assume at that point, you're just going to be exercising your high flex option and there's nothing that needs to be with us.
kristi steinmann: And I think if you are supposed to be in quarantine. You shouldn't be in your office, right, should you be home.
kristi steinmann: If you're supposed to be in quarantine.
kristi steinmann: Right. Yes. Okay.
kristi steinmann: This one is the little serving. I'm not sure if this is a question. So who ever dropped this one. And I'm wondering
kristi steinmann: If you want to expand the surveying that's been done indicates maybe 75% of students want face to face. Should we presume that a certain percent want remote, are we concerned about that as we're looking at these numbers.
philip.hunt: I think the students and you know clearly Margaret jump in here where you like but my opinion is, this is that the students who want to
philip.hunt: Use high pledge will do it. And that's why that option has presented itself and so
philip.hunt: If that's what they want to do. That's, that's why the institution, set it up in that manner to give students the option to either come in class or to use the high flex and so they have that option anytime they that they want to use it.
philip.hunt: And so what we need to accommodate for at least you know from my standpoint as a registrar. We need to accommodate for those students who want to physically be in class.
philip.hunt: And the best way for us to understand that is right now without there being a huge survey for each class is to look at what our historical numbers have been and prepare for that amount of students to be in the classroom.
kristi steinmann: Um, some other one the signs on the entrance to music or enter on the left and exit on the right.
kristi steinmann: Does this accommodate students from countries which drive on the left.
kristi steinmann: That was a I think of
My
MMccourt: tongue in cheek. I just, it just seemed so
MMccourt: Wrong. I mean, students are going to behave the way Americans behave we we drive on the left, you know, we get there on the left, so I just don't understand the logic behind that particular signage.
philip.hunt: I'm going to toss that one to my mark.
michael.ellingson: Yeah, and we're going to have to re evaluate that, because there's going to be a variety of buildings on campus. That's that people will have to
michael.ellingson: Enter on the left and exit on the left, because a lot of our doors on every building we have power door operators. So somebody in a wheelchair or somebody that
michael.ellingson: Is on crutches or somebody that doesn't want to touch a door handle
michael.ellingson: In order to get the door open. It's only one set of doors and it's on the same side. So they're going to have to enter and exit so
michael.ellingson: It is going to be a little confusing if we start putting signage on those doors. It says enter when the people on the other side are going to be exiting so I just I want us to use a little word of caution on those exterior doors because of that.
kristi steinmann: Alright, this one is a question designated probably for Margaret, we're trying to hire
kristi steinmann: PTS for classes, even if they arrive by this Friday. They need to quarantine for 14 days and can't even be employed until after classes start
kristi steinmann: HR requires a face to face visit to start their employment. They need to have access to any su email and Blackboard and this is creating a big challenge.
Margaret Fitzgerald: When they visit with HR about that and see if we can figure out a workaround so they could get started remotely on their jobs.
Margaret Fitzgerald: The exact Greg Carrasco so yep
Marc Wallman: Get them access to services.
Marc Wallman: Early as well. We just need them set up an HR events. I haven't actually started yet.
Laura Oster-Aaland: And Margaret, are these PTA students or
Laura Oster-Aaland: Professionals
Laura Oster-Aaland: Be the reason I ask is there was that change to the quarantine policy. And so I know for international students if they get at coven test and can produce the negative results within 48 hours.
Laura Oster-Aaland: They're not required to quarantine. But I don't know if it applies to professionals. Okay, I just see Craig same professional, but we could check into that.
John Woolsey: Hey this is john an HR. So I think that's the they mostly go through our payroll division. And I think I heard Sheila last week talking about this so I can try and get an update you and provide some feedback. I know we're aware of it. So,
Margaret Fitzgerald: THANK YOU, JOHN
kristi steinmann: Question about moving from the current 75% capacity to a 50% capacity will cause some specialized sections or labs and they use music as an example to be overloaded, may they contact Kim or someone else in your office to try to work out an alternative to moving to what would be problematic.
kristi steinmann: To a different classroom.
philip.hunt: As always, we're here to try to help you in the best way that we can. So, yes.
kristi steinmann: As far as I can tell, I think I've made it through all of the chat questions, unless I missed one. So if anyone feels they missed one either repost it or unmute yourself and ask it.
philip.hunt: While that's happening. I just wanted to take this opportunity to
philip.hunt: thank Mike Allison and his facilities to sort of work that they've done.
philip.hunt: I've been on multiple three our tours of facility. So with the last couple of weeks trying to get a good understanding of what our space looks like I inventory and I tell you what, you know,
philip.hunt: Not only here there's clearly some great people on this campus but you know there's a lot of opportunity here with what we have going on in some of the special sized classrooms, the spaces.
philip.hunt: And the great work that the departments in your faculty are doing and what you're teaching so I'm looking forward to seeing the university in action in the fall.
philip.hunt: And I also want to give a special thank you to the staff. So the staff and the Student Union as well, since we're going to be. It was kind of last minute for us to start looking at those spaces.
philip.hunt: To offer some some classrooms. And so I just wanted to publicly recognize those folks because it's it's been no easy task and trying to coordinate everything. So thank you.
kristi steinmann: Have a question about who the new space person is
kristi steinmann: In in registration records, who's responsible for the, I think it's an in that office right
philip.hunt: That question, whose face person.
michael.ellingson: Facilities Management has a space coordinator
michael.ellingson: Her name is Karen Hanson.
Thank you Mike.
kristi steinmann: Question. Can you elaborate a little bit about options for downtown buildings and things that you're considering
philip.hunt: Well, this is pretty much hot off the press target that you probably have a little more detail and I
Margaret Fitzgerald: Was gonna say it's
Margaret Fitzgerald: It's so hot. I don't think the facility even knows that we're looking at them but um I think President, Russia is going to talk with the planes Art Museum and see if we might be able to use some of like their larger space on third floor.
Margaret Fitzgerald: That, again, this is very premature because I don't know if he's talked to them were really struggling that business or well
Margaret Fitzgerald: They're about 37 bottlenecks within Barry Hall. Most of them are in business and to get those students up to main campus, given their schedules and transportation is challenging. So if we can find a place downtown that's workable will try to do that.
Margaret Fitzgerald: And please don't call the planes Art Museum and talk about us moving and
Margaret Fitzgerald: They will be very surprised.
Margaret Fitzgerald: I think he's gonna try to visit with them. Today, however,
philip.hunt: So we'll, we'll get a couple more. A minute or so to see if anybody else has any last minute questions.
philip.hunt: But if there's something that you think of, you know, after we end this session, please, please, please pick up the phone. Shoot me an email. If you need us to walk you through kind of what things are looking like
philip.hunt: For your course for your department, more than happy, happy to do that. You know this. This is a work in progress.
philip.hunt: And again, as I mentioned before. We'll get through this together. And I just want to make sure that I'm aware of the things that I don't know. Right. So the only way for me to know that is to sit down with you if there's something that comes up.
kristi steinmann: Couple questions just popped up. Do we know how many of our students and faculty self identify as wanting to learn or teach remote
Margaret Fitzgerald: We know which of our faculty are planning to teach remotely and have a schedule that will release to advisors in the near future, in case students are asking questions about whether a
Margaret Fitzgerald: Faculty member will be physically in the classroom or not.
Margaret Fitzgerald: A lot of those faculty will be high flexing into their class.
Margaret Fitzgerald: As far as students. I don't think that we do have a
Margaret Fitzgerald: handle on how many Well hi flux hell mailing, you will be face to face.
Margaret Fitzgerald: And and it'll probably change throughout the semester, as well as they get a little more comfortable with FIVE FLEX we might see more of them pursuing that option. We've still been hearing that that our students are excited about face to face are excited about getting back to campus.
Margaret Fitzgerald: You know, knock on would that our enrollment numbers are good. We'll see what happens.
kristi steinmann: There's a question about will NDS you be notified of try college students that
kristi steinmann: test positive
philip.hunt: I don't know the answer to that.
Laura Oster-Aaland: Yeah. That is a great question. I am in close contact with the other VP for Student Affairs at those campuses and we, that is one thing we have not discussed. So I will put that on my list to follow up on
kristi steinmann: Another question for Margaret, if we have a class that requires an overflow second classroom. Could we instead have half the students come one day in the other half another day.
kristi steinmann: The other half on a given day would remote in individually, preferring something like that over having a separate classroom promoting in
Margaret Fitzgerald: We've been allowing lab and studio sections and other experiential learning
Margaret Fitzgerald: Type classrooms to do that type of rotation, where some of the students come one day in some come another day just simply because of the space restrictions and a lot of our
Margaret Fitzgerald: Buildings. We've been reluctant to let other types of classes be scheduled that way because we do have students that want to be face to face every day that the class meets
Margaret Fitzgerald: So we're, we're trying to figure it out.
Margaret Fitzgerald: To be able to accommodate those students that do want to be face to face, and we're trying to do it by finding one larger classroom that works. Now if we find we can't get there. We'll look at some other options, but we're still trying to accommodate through larger classrooms faces.
philip.hunt: Any, any more before we
philip.hunt: end the session.
philip.hunt: Alright, well, it was a pleasure to see some faces that I know and then some new ones on here and I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you over time. And thank you in advance for your patience.
philip.hunt: For your understanding.
philip.hunt: As I kind of get my feet wet and hands dirty here on campus.
philip.hunt: So looking forward to it. In the meantime, please reach out if you have any questions.
Mark Strand: Okay, take care.