[ COVID-19 Response ]
A REMOTE UNIVERSITY
Student Compassion Fund
Millersville University Rises to the Coronavirus Challenge
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$2,808,651
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Student Fees refunded
CARES Act funding available
Raised
BY K ATE H AR T MAN
WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY?
Governor Tom Wolf rolled out all of these requirements for Pennsylvania as a whole, and Lancaster County specifically.
Is it a place? Is it a collection of students and the staff that supports them? Is it the research and academic work that is completed? Is it a feeling of pride?
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When put to the test, like Millersville University was during the spring 2020 IT Help Desk Tickets addressed semester, it is easy to see that it is all of these things and more.
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Courses added for remote instruction
While Millersville’s response to the pandemic came in waves as more information was released by Governor Wolf, changes happened very quickly.
37,331 Zoom sessions
On February 28, Dr. Wubah issued his first communication to campus detailing how the Incident Response Team (IRT) The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, had been formed to track the course of dominated and changed the trajectory of life for all the pandemic. In the coming weeks, MU students who members of local, national and international communities were studying abroad were called home, and by March 9, this spring. The Millersville community was no exception. a decision to remote-learning modalities for a short period of time after spring break had been made. On March 16, “The health and safety of our students, faculty and staff was with consideration of the directives coming out of the our immediate concern,” says Dr. Daniel Wubah, president Donated to first responders governor’s office, the Department of Health and Office of of Millersville. “While no decision was easy to make, we the Chancellor, it was officially decided knew the University needed to act quickly in order Faculty participated in that all face-toface instruction would be suspended through Pairs of PPE gloves to protect our community. I am proud of the remainder of the spring 2020 semester. the way we were able towebpage think onviews COVID-19 our feet—transitioning all of Training “This issessions a challenge that PPE respirators our classes to online for remote instruction Millersville University has learning, and the never faced before. The majority of our staff prospect of transitioning to remote work.” classes and revising syllabi in the middle of According to the Centers for the semester is no easy Disease Control, COVID-19 is a new task, but I knew our disease that had not previously faculty members were been seen in humans. It appears Students, that it surfaced in Wuhan, China, Degrees awarded capable of making that faculty and change. Our biggest and quickly spread to nearly every staff added priority was ensuring country in the world, with the the continuity of World Health Organization (WHO) Bachelor’s degrees New videos academic support classifying it as a global pandemic. for our students, making sure they could In order to slow the spread of the virus, meet the requirements of their courses, many countries around the world, and Minutes of video degrees andGraduate for those set to graduate, that they states within the United States, instituted would be able to do that on time,” explains a variety of restrictions, including stay-atDr. Vilas Prabhu, provost and vice president home orders, social distancing guidelines for Academic Affairs. and mask requirements for public settings. Stats as of May 2020
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