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Key Communicators Meeting / 4.2.20

Agenda

  • Updates / Sharon Martin
  • Enrollment Update / George Zimmerman
  • Virtual Decide WVU Day / Mike Esposito
  • Day of Recruiting / Ally Cannon

Coronavirus COVID-19 - 24/7 - 32 days + counting

MARCH 4, Watch
Virus Appears

  • Communicate prevention of spread and individual preparedness 
  • Stockpile Supplies (nonperishable food, water, sanitation, hygiene supplies) 
  • Stockpile medical supplies 
  • Review Emergency Operating Procedures 
  • Review Employee Policies 
  • Employee Training 
  • Establish MOU’s for facility use 
  • Put essential personnel on alert 
  • Prepare residence halls 
  • Review travel policies 
  • Assess study abroad students  
MARCH 10, Warning
Virus Spreads
  • Communicate prevention of spread and individual preparedness 
  • Communicate health care options 
  • Ready supplies 
  • Stage facilities 
  • Determine essential services 
  • Evaluate events, classes, etc. 
  • Implement travel restrictions 
  • Establish student hotline 
  • Prepare residence halls 
  • Prepare contingency location for students unable to go home
  • Assess labs, especially those with animals and develop contingency plans  
MARCH 18, Emergency
Virus in Area
  • Communicate prevention of spread and individual preparedness 
  • Communicate health care instructions 
  • Close campus except for essential services 
  • Cancel events 
  • Implement emergency residence halls procedures 
  • Implement patient treatment protocols  

Communications

University Command (receiving information from  CDC/DHHR, Medical Command, HSIC, Communications, JIC) communicates  Planning and  Next Steps/ Logistics to:

Academics

  • Instruction - On Campus, Teach Out planning, Absence Policies, Grading, Exams
  • Faculty - Tenure, Training
  • Travel - International, Domestic, Study Abroad
T&C 
  • Employees - Emergency Leave policies, Essential Services, Security, Telework, Supervisor Support
  • Travel - International, Domestic
Students

  • Students - Res Hall, Dining, Off-campus, Wellness, Conduct, Reimbursements, Student Supports
  • Enrollment - Retention, Recruitment
  • Financial Aid
  • Graduation
Administration
  • Facilities - Maintenance, security, cleaning/sanitation
  • Finance - Reimbursements, Cash management, projections
  • Procurement
  • Transportation
Healthcare

  • HSC campus
  • Student Health
  • EH&S
  • Infectious Control
  • WVU Medicine
System

  • Divisional campuses
  • Farms
  • Extension
  • Jackson’s Mill
  • Athletics
  • Alumni Association
  • Foundation

COVID-19 Updates

Key Decisions

  • Alternative learning environment for rest of semester
  • Majority of workforce teleworking
  • Personnel policies and guidelines
  • Increasing ITS bandwidth
  • Student Support Systems
  • Postponing Commencement & Adding Virtual Ceremony
  • Healthcare information

Key Decisions to Come

  • Summer Session 
  • Summer camps
  • New Student Orientation
  • Refunds for Residence Halls and Meal Plans, Apartments
  • Revised Academic Policies (i.e., Pass/Fail)
  • Pathways for HSC students
  • Pausing Capital Projects

What we are beginning to think about

  • What does fall look like?
  • Welcome Week
  • Engaging with students over the summer
  • New opportunities for new ways of working 

What this crisis has reinforced

  • We have a strong Leadership team
  • We can change the way we do things
  • We are a leader in the State of WV (we have a czar!)
  • Our culture  

COVID-19 Crisis Communications   

Executive Communications 

  • letters and videos from Dr. Gee, letters from Dean of Students, College/School Deans 

Campus Communications 

  • Website 
  • Banners on all websites to push people to website
  • coronavirus@mail.wvu.edu (more than 500 emails have been answered) 
  • Inside WVU Today 
  • Social media messaging (more than 300 messages over the past 2 weeks from UR-owned social media accounts) 
  • Travel guidelines

Human Resources Communications

  • Employee 
  • Supervisor 

Parent Communications 

  • Special E-newsletters, social media 

HSC Communications 

  • Partnered with WVU Medicine to help with messaging, including several videos featuring our rock star Dr. Kathy Moffett 
  • PSAs on proper handwashing techniques 
  • Social media graphics    

COVID-19 Connecting Communications

Executive Communications 
  • Mini “GeeMails” 
  • Op/Eds, Media interviews 
  • Weekly letter from Provost to all faculty 
Campus Communications 
  • Videos on how to prepare for online learning 
  • Faculty Instagram story with messages of support for students 
  • Social media tips on social distancing, mental health, online learning 
  • WVU Zoom backgrounds   
Human Resources Communications 
  • Teleworking resources 
  • Technology updates 
  • Tips for supervisors 
  • Parent Communications 
  • Tips for parents to help their student succeed in an online-only learning environment 
  • Class of 2024 Facebook Page 
  • HSC Communications 
  • Supportive messages for our heroes on the front lines 
  • Print advertising to share support and gratitude  
Media Communications  
  • 40-plus media pitches 
  • Op/ed with Dr. Gee in Education Dive 
  • Mountaineer Nation Communications 
  • “Country Roads” video 
  • Mountaineer Graduation Day – May 16  
Thank you.   

In Other Updates

  • Announced our new Dean of Extension: Jorge Atiles, OSU
  • Loulie, Valerie and William Canady Creative Arts Center
  • Would You? campaign
  • Alumni Leaders Institute – virtual event on May 8

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