A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Apart Yet Together As journalists and IMC professors, we understand how to adapt to new situations pretty quickly, and that mindset has allowed us to move all of our in-person classes online using Blackboard and other multimedia tools in a short time. This has required teamwork and innovative thinking, and it has allowed us to stay together as an educational family even though we are temporarily separated. We’re together, though we’re apart. We’re still a family of students and educators. We will persevere. Life and school will go on even though we face temporary challenges.
RAPID CHANGES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DURING THE 2020 SPRING SEMESTER A look at how the response to the Emerging COVID-19 Crisis unfolded.
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Some of our professors are offering words of wisdom about coping with these new changes. Will Norton, Jr., Ph.D., said faculty and staff are here to help students any way they can, and they will be offering many interesting courses in the summer and fall, whether they are in person or online. “I am grateful for the hard work our faculty members have done to adapt to the current situation,” Norton said. “Faculty worked long hours to get lectures online and contacted students so that they could finish the semester. “I also am grateful for the many adjustments the students made so that they could complete
MARCH 8 Spring Break begins and students and faculty leave the campus.
MARCH 12 Study Abroad requests all students return to US immediately and all spring and summer Study Abroad programs are canceled.
ILLUSTRATION BY ELLEN KELLUM
THE FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND NEW MEDIA CONTINUE THEIR MISSION OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION IN THE FACE OF UNPRECEDENTED CHALLENGES POSED BY THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES
