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Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Following the conclusion of the summer pilot phase for our routine COVID-19 testing program, the University launched an even more comprehensive fall testing program on Monday, Aug. 24. I write today with an initial update to the community on our results to date, as students and employees approved to be on campus continue to visit our two testing locations with the start of the fall term approaching. Since Aug. 24, we have enrolled in the testing program 6,375 members of the Brown community who are studying, working or living on campus as part of our phased return to in-person operations. By the end of the day on Tuesday, Sept. 1, we had completed approximately 6,000 tests at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center (OMAC) and One Davol Square testing sites. As of that same timeframe, results for more than 5,400 of those tests had been returned, with the others still to be processed. Out of those approximately 5,400 tests, we have had a total of five positive results. Among those five, some of these positive results represent not newly detected cases, but prior infections of COVID-19 diagnosed at earlier points within the past 90 days — during that timeframe after diagnosis, a person can shed virus particles that are detected by a previous test, even though the individual is no longer contagious. (And consistent with CDC guidance, individuals who test positive should generally not be tested for the next 90 days.) While the low rate of positive asymptomatic tests is reassuring, it is by no means an indication that our individual or community vigilance with regard to health and safety measures should relax. It is an indication that the efforts we are all making every day -- wearing masks, washing our hands, maintaining social distancing, staying home when sick or exposed, participating in the testing program -- are working and that we need to continue those efforts to best protect ourselves, the Brown community, and our broader Providence and Rhode Island communities as well. In general, the feedback we have received regarding the testing sites and process itself has been positive, and we have continued to make improvements based on participant feedback and suggestions. We have also been monitoring the timeliness of results closely. The Broad Institute picks up test samples from both of our testing sites twice a day, and those samples arrive in their Cambridge, Massachusetts, lab facility in the late afternoon or evening on the same day each test is conducted. For the most part, the Broad Institute has delivered results within 24 hours of the sample arriving at the lab -- so typically with 24 to 36 hours following the test. That is consistent with what we anticipated but remains a metric of success that we will assess on a daily basis. As some participants are aware, we have some challenges with the online scheduling process. A significant system update to the Healthy at Work / School web application was implemented this week, and we believe that challenges to the scheduling process have been resolved. Some of these were related to the change in testing cadence from the summer pilot, when we were sampling the population and selecting participants at random for tests -- as opposed to the fall program, through which all participants are tested either once or twice a week. Concurrent with the launch of the testing program, we are also in the latter stages of finalizing a public dashboard that will share data on testing results and the prevalence of the virus on campus. We look forward to sharing that dashboard with the full community shortly. In the interim, you can find additional details and a growing set of FAQs on the Testing & Tracing section of the Healthy Brown website at https://healthy.brown.edu/testing-tracing. I want to thank all students, faculty and staff who have participated in routine testing to date for their diligence in completing the symptom tracker, scheduling and taking tests, and for their patience as we work through the successful launch of a program with significant scale and complexity. Similarly, I deeply appreciate the efforts of the many colleagues at Brown who are working hard every day to support the program for all participants. Sincerely, Russell C. Carey Executive Vice President, Planning and Policy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown Daily Herald Description An account of the resource This collection consists of articles published by the Brown Daily Herald, the undergraduate daily student newspaper, in regards to COVID-19 at Brown. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Five out of 5,400 COVID-19 test results of Brown community members were positive as of Sept. 1. 6,375 members of the Brown community who are studying, living or working on campus were enrolled in the University’s testing program, which began Aug. 24, according to a community wide email from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 sent Wednesday. By the end of Tuesday, Sept. 1, the program completed “approximately 6,000 tests” at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center and Jewelry District testing sites, of which 5,400 have been returned as results. Community members enrolled in the program receive routine testing either once or twice a week, depending on whether they are classified as high contact or medium contact, The Herald previously reported. The five tests corresponded to results from five different community members. The email did not specify the exact dates when the tests that delivered positive results were administered, only that the testing period was between Aug. 24 and Sept 1. Only 10 of the tests were “indeterminate,” according to University spokesperson Brian Clark. Indeterminate results are tests that could not be processed for various reasons. “Some of the positive results represent prior infections of COVID-19 over the past 90 days, during which time a person can shed virus particles that are subsequently picked up by the test, even though the individual is no longer contagious,” Carey wrote in the email. “Consistent with CDC guidance, when an individual tests positive through routine or other testing, they will not be tested for the next 90 days.” Carey also wrote that administrators have “experienced challenges with the online scheduling process,” causing problems for community members when signing up for a test. He attributed some of these challenges to a system update in Verily, the 3rd party vendor that schedules the University’s tests. That update took place Tuesday night. Other challenges “have been related to the change in testing cadence from the summer pilot, when we were sampling the population and selecting participants at random for tests, to the fall when all participants are tested either once or twice a week,” he wrote. The Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collects tests from the two testing sites twice a day. The samples arrive at the laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the evening of the day they were collected, Carey wrote. “While the low rate of positive asymptomatic tests is reassuring, it is by no means an indication that our individual or community vigilance with regard to health and safety measures should relax,” Carey wrote. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. 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Title A name given to the resource Five positive COVID-19 tests among 5,400 results in Brown community Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clara Gutman Argemí Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Brown Daily Herald Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Brown Daily Herald Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 2, 2020 fall 2020 fall on campus positive case quiet period testing https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/51613/archive/files/97b24b714aac2f9477ffe2fa90399907.png?Expires=1780531200&Signature=FSLNFcI3caClOlWTAF1xkgwB1V%7ELA90LHTzinL-8PZPX-if3wYD3HJtKW7rvTkJpOXH%7EhdRku5C2J-SJTE412mmzH2ITzxIxYMmdV3rzOIMjh60YZVOKYcuM0C0llw0KF5It8%7EBTDUwnqFDy7caYKihDfMJzipTW48PErgzkvs8idvmCbRZWcEtzYzOMFVwvY9FZUjkQMVjDXtSi5Bd1jBw7rjrN%7E0o0UizsqL7KtIKY2OdhGwMJfj9lzLL2-wqBj%7EEREHXEp5J6Pv7D8NYTqlwCs27hCM-KDESDjAy9g0itIvlEupH3NDSRUBfLycEsx4KqusAwcVjex8sXgYxSrA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM f349ffe8e032391a96bfa85d2514b6aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown Daily Herald Description An account of the resource This collection consists of articles published by the Brown Daily Herald, the undergraduate daily student newspaper, in regards to COVID-19 at Brown. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document For Shanghai resident Tiffany Chan ’23, coming back to Brown from China this fall requires an unusual, extra long layover: 14 days of quarantine in Hong Kong. The stop is necessary because of current travel restrictions banning non-U.S. passport holders from entering the U.S. directly from China. Chan plans to live in her grandmother’s apartment for those two weeks later this month — where she must quarantine alone. “I (have) to kick my grandma out of her house, and she has to live with the rest of my family (in Hong Kong), because Hong Kong is very serious about quarantining alone,” she said. “The process (is) difficult,” said Chan, who hasn’t lived in Hong Kong since the age of three. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, travel restrictions are in place for many international students wishing to return to campus this semester. Most travelers who have been to certain countries in the past 14 days — including Brazil, Iran, China, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Schengen Area, which includes most countries in Europe — are barred from entering the United States because of presidential proclamations instituted during the spring. This restriction does not apply to U.S. citizens and F-1 or M-1 visa holders traveling from certain countries including Ireland, the United Kingdom or the Schengen Area. Almost 30 percent of international students planned to study remotely as of Aug. 10. For international students finding a way back to Providence who do not fit those exemptions, the process has been strenuous and anxiety inducing. “Some students are taking the option of quarantining in a third country that the U.S. doesn’t have a restriction on,” said Christine Sprovieri, director of international travel risk management for the office of global engagement. For three students interviewed by The Herald, quarantining in a third country in order to return to College Hill is worthwhile. The main motivation behind Chan’s decision to return to campus is the 12-hour time zone difference between Providence and Shanghai. “I am not the type of person who can flip my circadian rhythm,” she said. And beyond returning to Eastern Daylight Time, Chan said she expects that the College Hill atmosphere will support her studies. “I will be able to focus better and be in an academic environment,” she said. Fabiana Sarkis ’22, a Herald designer, shared the desire to return to an academic environment. Sarkis is from Brazil and quarantined for 15 days in Mexico before coming to Providence. She said she considers physically returning to Brown crucial for the quality of her education, which remains her priority. “I am at Brown essentially to learn, to be educated and to take classes. I don’t think I would have that experience back home,” she explained. Sarkis reached this conclusion in part based on her experience with remote learning at the end of last semester. Taking classes from home in the spring was “fine, but I didn’t think I learned as much. Even if I am in my dorm, I learn more than if I am in my room at home,” Sarkis said. Lucas Camillo ’21, also from Brazil, stayed in Sweden and Poland for 19 days before entering the U.S. with his student visa. Camillo’s decision to return to Providence was tied to his upcoming position as a teaching assistant in the biology department. That is “the main reason I am here,” he said. But the decision to come back was not without its financial drawbacks. “Yes, it was costly,” Sarkis wrote. “I know a lot of people who couldn’t return to the States because of money.” The financial burden of quarantining in a third country was echoed by Camillo. “Quarantining in Europe and then going to the U.S. cost me and my family probably twice as much as going to the U.S. in terms of plane tickets,” he wrote. The three international students all expressed concerns about being so far from home during a pandemic. Despite no longer grappling with time zone differences, they now face the possibility of not going home for a year and uncertainty about when they will next see their parents. “I am afraid that if we aren’t careful and campus closes, then I will have issues getting home,” Sarkis said. “Rushing home last time was very stressful and anxiety-inducing. It isn’t easy for (international students) to get home.” Chan is primarily concerned about what would happen to her if she were to get sick while in the U.S. She is hoping for more guidance from the University on that front. “At what point would I be sent to a hospital?” she asked, adding that getting sick in a foreign country would worry her parents. “I hope that American kids understand that it’s going to be a hard semester for us,” Chan said. “It’s a lot to navigate right now.” Sprovieri acknowledged that the process of returning has been challenging for students, but stressed the resources the University provides to help international students navigate their plans for this upcoming semester. Sprovieri encourages students to use International SOS, a travel security firm that provides medical and security advice to anyone traveling on University business. She also encouraged students to reach out to administrators. “There is definitely no lack of support at Brown. We have a really great group of staff and colleagues that are standing ready to support international students,” Sprovieri said. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Online newspaper article Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown Daily Herald Description An account of the resource This collection consists of articles published by the Brown Daily Herald, the undergraduate daily student newspaper, in regards to COVID-19 at Brown. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Where students once climbed onto the roof for an evening of soccer under the stars, where athletes huddled together to chat with their teammates during practices and navigated the track and courts, the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center has now become a primary gathering spot for the Brown community — in a very different way. There, many University students and staff are learning to follow a set of equally spaced-out arrows along the floor and swab their nasal passages, instead of dribbling basketballs, as the University tallies positive and negative test results. There have been five positive tests from 5,400 results that have come back thus far from Brown community members who have already initiated their asymptomatic testing at the OMAC or Brown’s second testing center, 1 Davol Square. Over 6,000 University community members have received tests at the two locations from Aug. 24. through Sept. 1 as part of the academic year testing process, according to a Sept. 2 email from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91. To date, 6,375 University students, faculty and staff have enrolled in testing. “While the low rate of positive asymptomatic tests is reassuring, it is by no means an indication that our individual or community vigilance with regard to health and safety measures should relax,” Carey wrote. The University’s current testing process was built off of information gathered during the University’s summer testing pilot, which reported under five positive results from around 3,100 total tests, according to an Aug. 28 Today@Brown Announcement from Provost Richard Locke P’18 and Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Barbara Chernow ’79. “We have worked hard to improve the test scheduling process, speed up turnaround times for test results, strengthen the process for delivering test results to participants, and refine the approach to the web-based screening survey through which participants report symptoms,” they wrote in the announcement summarizing summer testing results. Still, due to the transition from randomized testing to required weekly or semiweekly testing, some testing participants had difficulties with the scheduling process over the past week. Some returning students mistakenly received emails, reviewed by The Herald, indicating that they had not followed testing and symptom tracking procedures and stated that if they did not remedy the alleged mistake, the matter would be “referred to the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards and you may face disciplinary action.” But Carey added that Verily, the company working with the University to manage testing logistics, has updated their system, mostly resolving this issue. “The feedback we have received regarding the testing sites and testing process itself has been positive, and we have continued to make improvements based on participant feedback and suggestions,” Carey wrote. Claire Miller ’21, who lives off-campus, shared such feedback about her experience registering for testing, which requires setting up an account on Verily’s website after receiving an email from Campus Life. The directions were “super, super clear,” Miller said. “Honestly, I think they’re doing a really good job with the explanations. I was a little nervous when I went in just because I hadn’t done it before, but it was so organized.” Upon arrival at the OMAC, students must follow arrows dotting the floor and stand at socially distanced spots while waiting in line for a temperature check before showing an ID to check-in. Staff then direct community members to private booths separated by black curtains, where health care personnel wearing long gowns, face shields, masks and gloves instruct them on how to administer the test. For asymptomatic individuals, the University has opted for an “easier and significantly less uncomfortable” — yet comparably accurate — anterior nasal test that uses a swab and does not go as deep into the nose as the nasopharyngeal test, according to the Aug. 28 University statement. Mia Santomauro ’21, who is also living off-campus, went in to receive their first test Aug. 24, the first day of academic-year COVID-19 testing at the OMAC, after it transitioned from a prior location on Meeting Street. Santomauro, who like Miller completed the entire process in around five minutes, said the process was “super easy,” and, given the vast space, it “wasn’t overly crowded.” The University specifically chose the OMAC because it is spacious and well ventilated. Verily will notify participants getting tested once or twice a week to schedule a subsequent test three days or one to two days, respectively, after their last test. In both cases, it is recommended that people space out their tests every three to four days. “For the most part, the Broad Institute is turning around results within 24 hours of the sample arriving at the lab, so typically a day and a half after the test,” Carey wrote. Students who test positive will not be tested again for 90 days in accordance with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The University is in the process of finalizing a dashboard to communicate collective and anonymized results with the public on its Healthy Brown website. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Online newspaper article Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Student Art + Media Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Materials Given to Providence-Area Undergraduate Students At the Start of Quiet Period Description An account of the resource Images and scans of two packages of materials I received near the start of Quiet Period (during my second coronavirus test at the OMAC, 9/2/20.) Similar bags were distributed to all undergraduate students who were living in the Providence area and getting tested at around this time, although there seems to have been some variation in mask numbers, type, and quality. The envelope labeled "Quiet Period Kit" contained a pamphlet titled "A Guide to Forming Your Pod," a pamphlet titled "Quiet Period Tips and Activities," six postcards, a poster titled "Stop the Spread of Germs," four Brown Takes Care stickers, and a box of colored pencils. The plastic bag contained three cloth tie-on face masks, two four-ounce tubes of hand sanitizer, and a package of 50 alcohol wipes. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown Daily Herald Description An account of the resource This collection consists of articles published by the Brown Daily Herald, the undergraduate daily student newspaper, in regards to COVID-19 at Brown. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document As some students return to campus and Providence, the University has launched the Brown Takes Care campaign to encourage personal responsibility for public health by providing both physical and online resources to stay safe and maintain the community. The campaign aims to engage Brunonians on- and off- campus with public health guidelines while staying true to “values that are uniquely Brown,” including a community of care and empathy, said Tanya Purdy, director of BWell Health Promotion and co-chair of the Prevention Education Subcommittee of Healthy Brown 2020. Through social media campaigns, student-created content and activity kits, Brown Takes Care will urge students to think about their roles in managing the pandemic — as individuals, parts of smaller communities and members of a broader population. “The campaign is designed for there to be many different entry points and for it to be adaptable” to the range of student living situations — on-campus, in Providence or remote — Purdy said. As other colleges have opened up in different parts of the country, dozens of institutions have struggled to discourage students from socializing in large groups, which have then become clusters of infection. This campaign aims to facilitate the changes in norms necessary for living and socializing while managing the risks posed by COVID-19. According to the press release, the campaign is designed to provide “guidance” while “letting community members ‘lead.'” The campaign includes a new Healthy Ambassadors program where staff members will be trained to use “bystander intervention and empathetic communication skills” to protect public health. Students in campus leadership positions will also be trained by BWell Health Promotion to use “motivational interviewing” as a technique for encouraging community members to discuss challenges and priorities of keeping everyone safe from COVID-19. In the press release, Purdy anticipated that over 200 peer educators and over 50 Healthy Brown Ambassadors would participate in the training program before Oct. 5. The campaign will also include outreach efforts that extend into the surrounding Providence community. Brown Takes Care messaging will be placed in advertising space around the city. The Office of Government and Community Relations also held a forum on Aug. 20 to have a conversation with local residents about returning students’ impact on the community. Additionally, the University has created an email for neighbors to raise concerns or give feedback. Purdy said she hopes that the campaign will provide opportunities for students to have difficult conversations about their presence on the East Side. The campaign’s resources will be available on the Brown Takes Care website and will include educational worksheets, instructions for students on how they can create a pod, and social media tools like filters, profile photo frames and daily challenges. While virtual resources are accessible to everyone, some physical resources are designed specifically for certain groups of students. For example, during the two-week quiet period students living on-campus will receive activity kits that include “resources and ways to still feel connected to the student body, while adhering to the quiet period when they first move on to campus,” said Alexis Jackson ’21, the presidential intern for the University’s Prevention Education subcommittee. “We’re not looking for any one strategy or one tool to be the thing that makes us successful,” Purdy said. “It’s about being able to have all these different pieces, working in concert with one another so that we can be healthy.” Though students returning to campus and Providence are required to complete an educational module and sign a 12-part student commitment to COVID-19 community health and safety obligations, students will not be mandated to participate in Brown Takes Care, according to Associate Vice President for Marketing Communications Carly Kite Lapinski. “This isn’t a compliance campaign,” she said. “It’s really tapping into people’s care and compassion for one another so that they can do the right thing and keep the community safe as a whole.” Listening to the concerns of students and developing the campaign with both staff and students has been a focus since the campaign was conceived in April, Purdy said. Maria Guerrero Martinez ’21, undergraduate representative for the Healthy Brown 2020 committee, said she spent a lot of time “talking to students, then voicing all of those concerns in task force meetings.” The campaign may evolve in the coming weeks and months. “As a public health major working on a public health campaign, it’s shown me that a campaign has to be adaptable and malleable in order to be successful,” Jackson said. Purdy agreed that the campaign would have to shift and adapt due to changing public health regulations and outcomes of the fall semester. “The launch is just the first step,” Purdy said. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown announces educational campaign on COVID-19 public health guidelines Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Katie Chen Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Brown Daily Herald Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Brown Daily Herald Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 27, 2020 Brown Takes Care BWell fall 2020 providence https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/51613/archive/files/7cb0613783180eaefe8a9c1f98e17c37.png?Expires=1780531200&Signature=D075hnishDxZUYGd8NTswvoWedOowGasfgUFu6ICHUwBC-1JKDJA1meIl-wWrtnOKqa7tQTR7GQ5Cdvze%7EkzYVuLhEQ2RkHTIWtUTTE2yp5JqUNDYEWjjMWkUrL8MBFcQCIN0y3u7Hr2yN-J3YC5FiraYirLE4hK7MTe982L8PS8yutyRQfCho%7E7cPHGHeBX40bukgmwKP2%7ECqezoaywCGJaXM%7EU6huoPDooQiPHEYIMvwMswmbxL36z3IHZizZQH9xWZo5kRDawOZ3NN-bM1zDOkszvs9onE8Efcy8W9ZY-aNu7cfYNviV9X53dQAkgMp-URc60dndTYDPnX74mYw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM f1470e7b3f68f891bf597458465d9be8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown Daily Herald Description An account of the resource This collection consists of articles published by the Brown Daily Herald, the undergraduate daily student newspaper, in regards to COVID-19 at Brown. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document None of the 44 student leaders Rhode Island School of Design welcomed back this month in preparation for in-person learning tested positive for COVID-19. While colleges around the country, including Brown, have reversed or reconsidered their in-person fall plans, RISD has maintained its original plan to bring students back to Providence and get them back into the classroom this September. The plan, announced June 15, notes that studio- and shop-based classes will be held in person with social distancing modifications set in place, while other courses will be offered virtually or in a hybrid online, in-person format, The Herald previously reported. 2,100 to 2,200 students have enrolled this year, compared to 2,500 in previous years, according to RISD Senior Public Relations Specialist Danielle Mancuso. Of enrolled students, between 400 and 500 will study remotely — meaning approximately 1,600 students are planning to return to Providence. Online classes are set to begin at RISD on Sept. 10, with in-person classes beginning Sept. 17. After students arrive and have been tested, on-campus students must follow a 14-day quarantine period, while off-campus students must follow Rhode Island Health Department guidelines for returning students. Afterwards, 10 percent of the student body, around 300 people total, will be tested each every two weeks. The test procedure involves a “self-collected swab of the anterior nares,” Mancuso wrote in an email to The Herald, with test results given to both RISD and the student within 24 hours. All arrival testing expenses are covered by RISD. On-campus students will be tested from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2, off-campus students from Sept. 3 to Sept. 9, and faculty from Sept. 10 to Sept. 16. Currently, on-campus staff is being tested from Aug.19 to 28. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Online newspaper article Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown Daily Herald Description An account of the resource This collection consists of articles published by the Brown Daily Herald, the undergraduate daily student newspaper, in regards to COVID-19 at Brown. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document “Why Brown?” Thousands of prospective students have answered this question as they vied for a coveted spot in the next class of Brunonians. Once the lucky ones were chosen, we all said “yes” for different reasons: the unmatched academic freedom of the Open Curriculum, the ability to connect with world-renowned professors, the incredible diversity and richness of the student body and many more. After having committed to Brown, we meet on College Hill and as we immerse ourselves in all that the University has to offer, we get to experience the reasons behind our original “why Brown” and discover many new reasons why Brown is the place for us. Regardless of what determined our decision, each Brown student wants to indulge in the environment that they agreed to be part of when they were admitted; however, with the COVID-19 pandemic knocking at the Van Wickle Gates, this dream is unfeasible. From the moment most students evacuated campus on March 17, 2020, we all knew this year was going to be different. Finishing the rest of the semester online was not a good substitute for in-person classes, as students contended with technical issues, time zone differences and major resource inequities, among many other challenges. When President Christina Paxson P’19 announced the trimester plan for the 2020-2021 academic year on July 7, it seemed somewhat reasonable to expect that that the COVID-19 pandemic would subside enough to allow for small, socially distant classes by September; however, it has become increasingly clear that the pandemic has not subsided, but has worsened. On March 17 when we evacuated campus, there were 11 new cases in Rhode Island, with a three-day average of 5 new cases. On July 7, there were 47 new cases, with a three-day average of 43 new cases. On Aug. 12, when the Brown administration communicated that students would not be welcome on campus for in-person classes until at least Oct. 5, there were 100 new cases and a three-day average of 100 new cases. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, 102 private, nonprofit colleges and universities in the US are operating fully online for the fall 2020 semester, including peer institutions like Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. Some of these announcements have come only in the last few weeks as institutions have realigned their plans with the state of the pandemic. I support the University in providing a petition process for students who have extenuating circumstances to come to campus, whether for logistical (e.g. not being able to return home), financial (e.g. prohibitive living expenses) or personal (e.g. not having a safe learning environment) reasons. But in failing to declare a fully remote semester for the rest of the student body and instead holding out on its final decision regarding reopening until mid-September, Brown increases the anxiety that students already feel during these tumultuous times, shreds any ability for students to plan ahead and ultimately puts the lives of students, faculty and staff at risk in order to better serve the University’s ego and coffers. As students, we have been left to wallow in a freakish purgatory, where we are asked time and time again to decide whether to operate virtually or risk our lives for the mere chance at returning to a shell of what once was the in-person Brown community. The moving goalpost of our return to College Hill forces students to make, undo and remake travel plans, which is both stressful and costly. So far, the University has offered no services for helping students plan their travel, which can be especially tricky for students from rural areas or foreign countries where flights to Providence are more difficult to book. There has also been no effort to ameliorate the cost of travel, which includes the base cost of tickets and luggage charges as well as change and cancellation fees. Whether students choose to study remotely or attempt to return, we are being required to pay the same tuition price that we would for a standard semester, a price which increased by 3.75 percent this year to $59,254 (not including room, board, books and other fees). In her April 26 opinion column in The New York Times, Paxson stated that certain aspects of the college experience “just aren’t the same on Zoom,” and she was right. “[T]he fierce intellectual debates, … research opportunities in university laboratories and libraries and the personal interactions among students,” don’t occur when we operate from home, so we shouldn’t be paying tuition as if we are still partaking in such activities. The only justification the University could potentially have for charging such exorbitant prices for a lesser experience is the possibility that students will return in October. Without this unrealistic attempt at returning to in-person learning, there would most certainly be a (fully justified) student uprising to lower tuition. As it stands, the University has a precedent for not refunding tuition for a partially in-person semester since they did not give any tuition refunds after the evacuation in spring 2020. Instead, the University awarded $150 travel stipends and a small, prorated refund of room and board charges. Brown derives millions of dollars of funding from tuition and is quite literally protecting that income stream with student lives. There is an obvious financial benefit to the University if administrators continue to dangle the shimmering but unattainable carrot of in-person learning in front of our noses. Beyond that, offering the possibility of reopening campus this fall also strokes the egoes of University administrators who have stated that they’re doing everything they can to ensure students can return to campus. Paxson in particular has been vocal about this goal, writing the aforementioned opinion column and even testifying in front of the Senate. If Brown conducts a fully remote semester when there is even a slim chance that students could return, both Paxson and the University have to accept that they were wrong. It appears that Paxson is more willing to risk student, faculty and staff lives than be caught with a bit of egg on her face. In short, though I and everyone else connected to the University desperately want to return to our beloved Brunonia, an in-person semester is not worth the safety of those who have built the Brown community. The preservation of life supersedes all other concerns — financial, educational and personal. The Brown community will endure this pandemic even if we are scattered across the world, but we cannot return to education if we are not alive to participate. Emilia Ruzicka ’21 can be reached at emilia_ruzicka@brown.edu. Please send responses to this opinion to letters@browndailyherald.com and other op-eds to opinions@browndailyherald.com. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource University Communication Description An account of the resource Mass communication sent out by Brown Email A resource containing textual messages and binary attachments sent electronically from one person to another or one person to many people. Email Body The main body of the email, including all replied and forwarded text and headers BROWN Bookstore Textbook Ordering Order your textbooks for Fall 2020! Fall Textbook Ordering will be available on the Brown Bookstore website starting August 24th. For information on how to order your textbooks, watch the video below: BROWN Bookstore If the option is available, we highly recommend selecting digital textbooks to ensure you get them in a timely manner. Student Charges are now available as a form of payment at checkout on the Brown Bookstore website! 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource University Communication Description An account of the resource Mass communication sent out by Brown Email A resource containing textual messages and binary attachments sent electronically from one person to another or one person to many people. Email Body The main body of the email, including all replied and forwarded text and headers Dear Students, Thank you again for your patience with the new two-stage pre-registration process. Initial course matches are now visible in Banner Self-Service and Courses@Brown. You can view your course matches by logging into Courses@Brown (https://cab.brown.edu) and refreshing your Primary Cart (CTRL-R on a PC, Command-R on a Mac). Depending on the course preferences you shared last week, you may have been registered for up to three initial matches. Please note that we were only able to register you for courses in which you meet all prerequisites and included all required course components (e.g., conferences, labs, and sections), and we only attempted to match you in this first-stage to courses with high demand. Specifically, we prioritized registration for courses in which initial student interest exceeded course capacity, because you will be able to register for other courses (including enrollment-limited courses with capacity) during the add/drop period. Therefore, if you were not registered for a specific course, please check CAB to see if seats are available. This is still the case for the vast majority of courses, and this is the most common reason why students were not matched for their initial preferences. The add/drop period will begin tomorrow, August 17, at 12pm EDT using our traditional staggered approach as outlined in the Academic Calendar). Please note that we have doubled the staggering period between each class year, and shifted the start time to Noon Eastern, in an attempt to help minimize stress and improve accessibility across multiple time zones. Graduate Students and Senior Undergraduates will be able to add and drop courses beginning 12pm EDT tomorrow, followed by Juniors at 12pm EDT on Wednesday, August 19, and Sophomores at 12pm EDT on Friday, August 21. First-Year undergraduates will be able to add and drop courses after meeting with their academic advisors and Meiklejohn peer advisors in early September. If you are a first-year undergraduate not initially matched for a course, or not matched for your top preference, please know that many courses are still open and will be available to you. After the add/drop period begins for each class year, it will remain open until the end of the Shopping Period on Tuesday, September 22. Thank you again for your continued patience, and thank you to all the students, staff, and faculty whose ideas and efforts allowed us to implement this new system so quickly. We understand how challenging and frustrating pre-registration can be, and are committed to making this process better. If you have any suggestions about the preregistration process or feedback about your initial course matches, please use this Google Form. Sincerely, Rashid Zia Dean of the College Andrew G. Campbell Dean of the Graduate School Subject Line The content of the subject line of the email Course Matches Visible in Courses@Brown, Add/Drop Period Begins this Week From The name and email address of the person sending the email Rashid Zia, Andrew Campbell Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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