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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wanted to follow up on the President’s message today about Fall semester because things are still very uncertain. There is always a chance that things are back to normal by August, but the reality is we are probably looking at one
of the following scenarios:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Online—in this scenario, the university offers a fully online fall term with no in-person instruction<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Shift—in this scenario, the university begins with in-person instruction and then shifts to remote/online at some point in the term by plan or by necessity or the university begins
with remote/online and shifts to some in-person later in the term<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Modified FTF—in this scenario, the university permits in-person instruction with some restrictions like
<span style="color:black">social distancing requirements in educational spaces and/or density reductions for education spaces at the room, building or campus levels
</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The university has a working group that is gathering data on what is feasible to offer in each scenario, and we need to look at our Fall courses and see what might work in which format. Associate Dean Sarah Poggione and VP of Research
Joe Shields are co-chairing the group.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ll be working with Martin and the rest of you over the next month to set up a coherent departmental plan for these scenarios. I think the best case scenario is that our service courses will need to move to a hybrid model, but it’s not
clear what that would look like. I had already asked my leadership team to start thinking about ideas for how we can pull this off, but it will take a collective effort<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">What I need from you now is to take a look at your fall courses and think about the potential obstacles to offering them in each of the three scenarios above. Right now, the university
needs to know if there are required courses that would be impossible to handle. I will contact you over the next week about your particular courses, as the college is asking me for data.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More information about the university’s preparation for the Falls semester can be found at
<a href="https://www.ohio.edu/news/2020/05/preparing-fall-semester">https://www.ohio.edu/news/2020/05/preparing-fall-semester</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Todd<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS: Despite the freshman class running several hundred students below last Fall, the number of incoming mathematics majors has more than doubled from F19. It’s up to 21, but that’s a bumper crop for us.<o:p></o:p></p>
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