mid-week message
Bill Maurer
Wednesday Apr 8 16:33:27 PDT 2020
Dear social sciences staff, faculty, graduate students, and lecturers,
Feels like it was Wednesday just a week ago! But seriously--I wanted to
wish everyone well in this mid-week check-in, and also to remind everyone
that now is a time for compassion, flexibility, and understanding. It's
the best gift we can all offer each other. That, and, well, I suppose
toilet paper (with thanks to Holly Hapke).
I wanted to remind the grad students that Vice Provost Hayes keeps an
archive of her Covid-19 related messages here, with many, many links to
resources ranging from financial assistance to meditation classes.
Our own School message archive is here, along with Zoom stuff and other
tidbits.
People teaching this quarter: Thank you for all that you are doing! I'm
advising a 4th year undergrad right now on a research project, and in
our call yesterday she was singing the praises of her social sciences
instructors, and complaining that her professor in another school (OK,
it's ICS) does not seem to have gotten the memo.
All told we're teaching over 13,000 students right now. Just think
about that, and what it means for our students and their families
and communities, even as many of them are struggling. I know there
are lots and lots of struggles right now for all of us, too, in many
different ways and for equally many reasons, but remembering that we're
there/here/wherever we are in this distributed space that the university
has become, helps me envision the light at the end of the tunnel.
Be well,
Bill