-- 
Jennifer Winters:  Good 
afternoon, welcome to the 
university of Oregon's virtual 
Town Hall! 
My name is Jennifer Winters and 
I'll be your host for the next 
60 minutes, as we approach the 
beginning of fall term, we're 
sure there are a number of 
questions and concerns that you 
may have and we hope that 
today's Town Hall will help 
provide some information, 
guidance and reassurance as we 
get ready for the new term. 
Today we'll be joined by 
president Michael Schill, 
provost Provost Phillips and 
some other members of the UO 
faculty and staff, to help 
answer your questions from you, 
our students, and your families.
We've received more than 200 
questions in advance, and we 
would like to you to know that 
you can ask a question at any 
time also during this program. 
You can e-mail us at 
townhall@UOregon.edu. 
But first we're joined by 
president and professor of law 
Michael Schill, who will begin 
with some comments about the 
decision last week, that 
instruction for fall term will 
be primarily remote or online. 
President Schill Michael Schill:
Thank you Jennifer, and thank 
you, everyone for joining us at 
this virtual Town Hall. 
I want to start by acknowledging
that COVID-19 has changed us, in
ways we couldn't have imagined, 
just six months ago. 
All of us have had to adapt to 
new realities and rethink all of
aspects of our lives I know it's
true for each of you and your 
families, I'm truly impressed 
with your resilience, 
determination and patience, it's
true at university of Oregon 
where the faculty and staff have
used the summer adapting by 
carefully planning and preparing
for fall term unlike any other 
that has come before. 
From the start, our every 
decision about the fall has been
guided by our concern for health
and safety. 
And by science. 
Michael Schill:  Our decision to
move to predominantly remote and
online classes this fall is 
rooted in this commitment to 
safety. 
We made this decision in 
consultation with public health 
authorities, and after listening
to you, our faculty and staff, 
as well as community members, 
now the decision to move to 
mostly remote education, was not
an easy one, and we continue to 
work hard to preserve as many 
aspects of in-person experiences
and interactions as possible. 
While, at the same time, 
safeguarding your health. 
Now, many campus buildings and 
services will be open to our 
students, faculty, and staff, 
following strict safety 
guidelines. 
For our incoming students, we've
created a boat-load of enhanced 
virtual and in-person 
experiences. 
They will allow you to make new 
friends, develop relationships 
with professors, and get a real 
collegiate experience. 
-- Michael Schill:  In short, we
are not going to let COVID-19 
take away from your experience 
of becoming a Duck. 
As you're going to hear in this 
Town Hall, many of our campus 
facilities will be open for 
students, such as the libraries,
Erb memorial union, the student 
recreation center. 
We're also taking some of our 
classrooms right now, and we're 
retrofitting them, as study and 
gathering spaces. 
All of our students, from our 
freshmen to our seniors, to our 
grad and professional students, 
are welcome to use these 
facilities. 
Our campus will be far from a 
ghost town. 
Staff will be available, to 
discuss your courses, tutoring 
will be provided in person, 
health services, Counseling -- 
they'll be open and ready to 
help you. 
Librarians will be on staff, and
a lot more. 
And I'll be in Johnson hall, and
walking through campus, with my 
new dog, Max. 
We have closed our campus to the
general public. 
And that's going to allow us to 
focus our efforts on keeping our
facilities and resources 
available to you. 
Our students.
As well as our faculty and our 
staff. 
We're also going to invite our 
incoming students to live on 
campus, by instituting a robust 
testing contact-tracing, and 
isolation and quarantining 
program, in our residence halls.
All of this is going to be under
restrict safety protocols. 
Such as reduced density, 
physical-distancing, enhanced 
cleaning, required mask-wearing,
and other measures to protect 
the health and well-being of our
campus community. 
-- Michael Schill:  Now with 
respect with our curriculum. 
Our professors have been working
hard over the summer, to get 
their classes ready for remote 
and online delivery. 
And I've got to tell you:  Their
raring to go and while most of 
our classes will be either 
online or remote, some small and
specialized courses will be in 
person. 
Now I know that some of you have
questions about tuition and 
fees. 
And I want to address them right
off the bat. 
Even as we shift to 
predominantly remote experience,
the cost of providing a 
university of Oregon education 
hasn't changed. 
And neither has the value of a 
UO degree. 
We still have to pay our faculty
and academic and career 
advisors. 
We still have to maintain our 
facilities. 
In fact, we end up with 
increased expenses, associated 
with providing the technological
infrastructure for remote and 
online education. 
Retrofitting our classrooms, 
Producing online content, as 
well as investments that we're 
making in testing, healthcare, 
risk-reduction strategies and 
on-campus programs. 
And I know each of you supports 
us doing all of those things. 
-- Michael Schill:  And for 
those reasons, and to maintain 
the long-term financial 
viability of the Institution, we
cannot reduce tuition. 
Now, that doesn't mean that we 
can't help people. 
So we have a number of financial
aid and scholarship programs 
that will continue to be 
available for those who qualify,
including PathwayOregon, which 
covers all fees and tuition for 
qualified Pell eligible 
Oregonians; also, for those 
students who are experiencing 
financial hardships, related to 
COVID-19, we have a variety of 
grants that are available 
through the office of the dean 
of students, as well as our 
office of student financial aid 
and scholarships. 
They provide direct financial 
support for qualifying needs. 
Indeed, this past spring, we 
gave out more than $6 million, 
in additional assistance from 
these sources. 
We will do everything possible 
that we can, to support you, 
during this unprecedented time. 
And as we're going to talk about
more, in this Town Hall -- we 
are so excited to welcome 
students back virtually, and in 
person. 
And we look forward to the day 
when we can all be back 
together. 
-- Michael Schill:  And I look 
forward to our panel today 
answering your questions, so 
thank you, and go ducks Jennifer
Winters:  Thank you, president 
Schill. 
Based on the questions that 
we've received so far, we have 
identified a number of topics to
cover and will take additional 
questions throughout this Town 
Hall. 
Now, if we don't get to your 
question in this Town Hall, 
don't worry. 
We have up to date information 
and a comprehensive list of 
FAQs, on the UO's COVID-19 Web 
site, which you'll find at 
coronavirus.UOregon.edu. 
And you can continue to submit 
your questions through our Web 
site. 
Now, to give you a brief 
overview, these are some of the 
topics that we'll be covering 
today based on the questions 
we've already received in 
advance. 
We have a number of people 
joining us and we'll be covering
remote education. 
Prevention. 
Academic support health and 
wellness, student support, and 
housing. 
We have a number of people who 
will be joining us to help 
answer all of those questions, 
and cover those topics, we've 
already heard briefly from 
president Michael Schill. 
Also, Patrick Phillips provost 
and senior vice president. 
Kimberly Johnson, assistant vice
provost for advising; Kassy 
Fisher associate vice president 
for campus services. 
Debra Beck, assistant vice 
president and Executive Director
for health services. 
Roger Thompson, vice president 
for student services and 
enrollment management. 
Kris Winter associate vice 
president for the division of 
student life and dean of 
students, are all here to join 
us. 
Thanks so much, you guys for 
being here, let's go ahead and 
get started with how we're 
preparing campus for fall term. 
Kassy Fisher is a key part of 
the team that's been overseeing 
the university's COVID 
operational health and safety 
planning, now, Kassy while we 
will be primarily remote for 
instruction, we'll have many in 
person services as president 
Schill mentioned. 
We've received a lot of 
questions, about how the 
university is safeguarding our 
campus and community. 
What are some of the physical 
and policy changes that UO has 
made in order to create a 
healthy environment? 
Kassy Fisher:  Well, actually, a
team of 200 people have spent 
the last six months getting our 
campus all set up to provide a 
safe and healthy environment 
this fall and as president 
Schill mention adgood number of 
our facilities, the EMU 
libraries rec center and some of
our academic buildings will be 
open to all students, but we 
have made changes and I can walk
you through them briefly. 
Physical distancing and 
barriers, we set up the inside 
of our buildings in ways that 
reduce density by spreading out 
seating areas and moving 
furniture and designating 
pedestrian flow in and out to 
maximize physical distance. 
We've installed or are 
installing Plexiglass in high 
traffic front desks and service 
counters and also put in place 
starboardized floor markings and
a lots of other signage and 
reminders and classrooms have 
been evaluated and modified in 
these ways as well. 
Enhanced cleaning, our custodial
staff is giving special 
attention to high touch surfaces
handrails elevator buttons door 
handles light switches and, of 
course, restrooms and eating 
areas, we have electrostatic 
misters disinfecting entire 
rooms, put out cleaning supplies
in offices and classrooms for 
individual use. 
And we have outdoor hand-washing
stations set up all around 
campus and sanitizer stands 
inside all the building 
entrances and our facilities 
team has been really busy 
updating all the restroom 
fixtures, sink faucets the towel
dispensers so everything is 
hands free, improved air 
handling is another measure and 
every building where possible 
we've adjusted the air handling 
system to maximize the 
circulation of outside air into 
the buildings. 
And last, we're working to get 
everyone student, staff, and 
faculty, to do their part. 
Staying home when you notice 
symptoms is key so first and 
foremost, this means checking 
ourselves daily for symptoms 
before heading out to meet 
friends, head across campus or 
go to work, and second we're 
distributeing two 
specially-designed U of O cloth 
masks to every employee and 
every student. 
Our students masks will be part 
of a welcome kit complete with 
hand sanitizer a brochure of 
resources, and a thermometer 
they can take their temperature 
with as part of self-check 
Jennifer Winters:  Thank you so 
much Kassy Fisher for providing 
that information, I expect we'll
hear more from you as we move 
on. 
Now let's move to provost 
Patrick Phillips our chief 
academic officer, Patrick 
students want to know what their
classes are going to be like 
this fall? 
Will it be different from spring
when we had to rapidly move to 
remote education? 
What can they expect? 
-- Patrick Phillips:  Well, I 
want to first reiterate the 
president's message that we're 
all all very excited to have the
students to return, and the 
faculty have been working very 
hard throughout the summer, and 
we have a lot of lessons learned
in the spring I would say about 
how to do this and we've made 
huge investments, hundreds of 
thousands of dollars in 
investments in improving our 
educational experience. 
And so much of it is going to be
somewhat similar. 
But we have advanced online 
courses, and then we are also 
ensuring that there's even 
greater student engagement in 
remote courses that will be 
delivered. 
It's essentially the same as 
taking a normal course, you show
up to class, you interact with 
your fellow students, listen to 
lectures, ask questions of the 
faculty member. 
It's just you're doing it 
through a computer instead of 
being in the classroom. 
And these environments. 
I will say that we also are 
focusing, especially -- and this
is a major difference from the 
spring -- to make sure that 
students have access to 
specialized facilities such as 
art studios music performance 
locations, laboratories, so that
those real specialized 
experiences are -- are provided 
to the students. 
Jennifer Winters:  Well, I know 
that some of the questions we've
been getting a lot about, is 
when they'll know what their 
classes will be exactly like. 
And if a student prefers to take
all their classes remotely, can 
they? 
-- Patrick Phillips:  Yeah, so I
remember one goal, of course, is
the health and safety of 
everyone so that's what our 
focus has been and we've worked 
with all our facilities folks to
make sure that that's happened. 
But in equal priority, of 
course, is -- and this has been 
stated from day one, way back in
March, is that we want to ensure
that no student is impeded in 
their progress to degree and 
success they built at the 
university of Oregon. 
And so we're still committed to 
that. 
We will always be committed to 
that. 
And so, students who want to 
take a full remote experience, 
they -- we will certainly make 
that possible. 
I will say that, right now, it 
looks like about 15 to 20% of 
our courses will have some 
in-person experience part of it.
So even though we're primarily 
remote, or -- there are still 
lots of opportunities, but it is
going to vary from course to 
course, I recognize that. 
And we have had to make a big 
shift in the schedule, so 
especially continuing students 
who look through the course 
catalogue, I -- it's just the 
situation we're in, and the 
world right now. 
So that we are shifting things. 
So we're going to release an 
update to the entire catalogue 
tomorrow. 
And so students will have a 
chance to look through, and see 
how that impacts their 
schedules, but for sure, they 
can work with their advisors, if
they see any challenges, 
about... fulfilling their 
degrees, and/or if they need to 
be remote and there's something 
that's a problem for them in 
terms of an in-person course 
schedule -- Jennifer Winters:  
Thanks so much, Patrick and that
actually is a great segue into 
our next guest as Patrick 
Phillips mentioned the course 
catalogue will be updated 
tomorrow and that can clarify 
which classes will be remote 
online or in person. 
Joining me now is Kimberly 
Johnson, the assistant vice 
provost for advising. 
Kimberly, how is your team and 
all the advisors going to be 
able to help students during 
this time as they get their new 
courses and as we get into fall 
term? 
-- Kimberly Johnson:  Yes, thank
you so much. 
We have an incredible advising 
team here at the university of 
Oregon. 
Our offices moved really quickly
to offer remote services over 
spring as we transitioned and 
have maintained really robust 
advising services for our 
students. 
We managed that with how the 
student wants to interact with 
us, whether that's by video, by 
phone, by chat. 
We also have been utilizing some
targeted outreach to students 
that we know, might need 
additional support. 
Whether that's phone calling 
them or looking at the courses 
they're enrolled in. 
We are going to continue to 
maintain very robust services by
also expanding some in-person 
services for students who need a
little bit more support to sort 
of manage their experience. 
The thing that's been a really 
great benefit this summer is 
that while our orientation 
programs have never been remote 
before, one of the assets that 
we have is that students 
actually now have access to 
figure out how do you actually 
access advising via remote? 
While some of those services 
were in group or they were 
individual one-on-one, most of 
the services that we actually 
offer in the fall are one-on-one
advising appointments, mostly 
remotely. 
While we will still have in 
person activities for students. 
We've also expanded our advising
hours across campus and so we'll
start to see some shifts in the 
fall that we haven't been able 
to offer before, as we try to be
really flexible with our staff 
schedule and some 
responsibilities that they might
have at home when they are 
working remotely, so we'll see 
extended services for our 
students, we'll see extended 
office hours, we're also going 
to be offering some additional 
engagement experiences, and we 
know that we have some students 
who will be here on campus, some
students who will still be 
remote, and so all of our 
efforts, are going to be trying 
to offer programs 
simultaneously, either 
asynchronously, so students can 
engage in having small groups in
person, other aspects will 
continue to be updating 
students, we'll be utilizing the
Canvas community as a way for 
students to know how they 
actually can look at all of the 
kinds of different kinds of 
experiences they have. 
As the beginning of the fall 
term starts, we also know that 
there are a lot of new students 
who have never navigated Canvas 
before, and so we're going to be
increasing the amounts of 
programs that we offer remotely 
so that they're safe, but also 
some small pod activities, where
students can get connected and 
learn a little bit more about 
the services that they can 
benefit from campus. 
The other thing that's really 
exciting is we will be having 
additional tutoring support for 
students. 
And so we'll have those 
in-person for some of our 
program areas, and also remotely
so that it allows the students, 
who want to be able to connect 
with someone in person they can 
do that. 
While still offering very robust
offerings, and we're utilizing 
some of our classroom spaces, 
that have now been built out, 
for safe distancing, social 
distancing. 
I'm excited to welcome our new 
students, I'm excited to welcome
back our continuing students, 
and I know that our advisors 
miss our students. 
And we've been able to really 
benefit from the fact that we 
can see them wherever we are, 
whether we're in our home, or 
we're in our offices like I am 
today. 
So... Jennifer Winters:  Thank 
you so much Kimberly, we really 
appreciate that. 
And next we have assistant vice 
president and Executive Director
of university health services 
Debra Beck with us. 
Deb, Kassy earlier talked about 
how we hope to prevent the 
spread COVID-19, of course, 
there's been news of outbreaks 
on college campuses elsealwer 
and we know parents and students
are worried understandably about
how UO will promote student 
wellness, as a health 
professionals can you explain 
what processes and procedures we
have in place for health and 
safety for students -- sure, 
thank you for having me, as a 
nurse, I first want to say thank
you to all the healthcare 
workers helping our community 
during this time. 
Debra Beck:  I should say how 
excited we are to welcome some 
of our students back to campus, 
I am happy to say the university
health services is fully ready 
and open to help our students 
for any of their healthcare 
mental health care or wellness 
needs. 
While they reside on or 
off-campus. 
We are fully open and our team 
of professionals provides 
wrap-around care for all kinds 
of healthcare needs. 
We have been working on many 
prevention plans this summer, 
including our corona core team, 
which started their work on July
one. 
This time works on 
contact-tracing for the entire 
UO community as well as the 
Eugene community and they are 
doing a great job. 
We also have a COVID care team 
that will be working to provide 
a complete array for services 
for students, in the event they 
need the service due to COVID-19
concern. 
This team will make sure all 
students have regular contact 
with medical professionals, have
their healthcare needs met, 
including meals, and housing. 
The team will assure students 
are not alone in the event of 
self-quarantine or 
self-isolation. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  Well, Deb,
we know how important it is that
we all do our part to help 
reduce the spread of COVID and 
take care of ourselves -- yes --
how as an institution are we 
promoting the key behaviors, 
mask wearing hand washing 
maintaining physical distance 
and doing those symptom checks 
before we come to campus or go 
out? 
Can you talk about that and how 
we're doing that -- Debra Beck: 
Sure. 
I would be happy to. 
It is critical that we make this
a priority. 
It is proven that these steps 
help reduce the spread of 
COVID-19. 
All of these four things do not 
take a great deal of time or 
effort and completing them is 
protecting those who may be at a
higher risk, as well as keeping 
our entire community safe. 
We will be doing a lot this year
to remind and encourage students
to take these precautions while 
on campus, and while remote. 
These behaviors are very 
important for all of us to 
practice. 
Wearing a mask or face covering 
is a state policy; and we are 
supportive of that, as we work 
to stop the spread of COVID-19. 
We will ask everyone in our 
community to do a daily symptom 
self-check. 
There will be more information 
on this soon, but this is always
a good practice. 
We will encourage and ask folks 
to wash their hands regularly, 
and maintain a safe distance 
from others. 
These are all critical steps for
all of us, to help stop the 
spread. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  All right,
thank you so much, Debra Beck --
sure -- Roger Thompson is our 
vice president for student 
services and enrollment 
management and he's going to 
join us now, so Roger, move-in 
for freshmen and upper classmen 
is just weeks away, can you tell
us about the safety precautions 
the university is going to be 
taking to make sure that all of 
those students are safe? 
And what will this year's 
process look like? 
-- Roger Thompson:  Yes, thank 
you, Jennifer. 
And to all the students, and 
families out there, our new 
students coming we cannot wait 
to get you on campus! 
So welcome to the university of 
Oregon, move-in is always a big 
time on our campus. 
We welcome all of our students 
and families. 
And this year it will look a 
little bit different. 
So that we can make ourselves, 
as safe as possible to mitigate 
the risks that COVID-19 
presents. 
So all students will have a 
COVID-19 test. 
Upon arrival. 
Our faculty here at the 
university of Oregon are some of
the best in the world and 
they've developed a very quick 
test, that will enable us to 
test you for COVID-19. 
Once clear from that test, we 
will, then, have you move into 
residence halls, again, as Debra
Beck mentioned. 
Face coverings, keeping some 
distance, but there will be 
plenty of people here to welcome
you to the university of Oregon 
and help you get situated in 
your residence hall. 
If by chance you test positive 
for COVID, we've got that 
covered too. 
We'll take you to a special 
building, where we can ensure 
that you're isolated. 
And have the opportunity to 
recover if you're experiencing 
symptoms. 
And once you're clear from COVID
we will, then, move you right 
back into your residence hall. 
We think the move-in experience,
while different from past years,
is going to be terrific. 
You're about to start a big 
adventure on campus. 
And we're going to be here to 
make sure it's safe. 
And healthy, and ready for you 
and your families. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  One 
question, Roger that we have 
coming in is will students be 
required to quarantine before 
they come to campus? 
And then also, what will that 
testing be like? 
If you can answer those two 
questions? 
-- Roger Thompson:  Sure 
absolutely, so students don't 
have to quarantine before they 
come to campus. 
We would encourage you to be 
extra cautious before you come 
to the University. 
But when you get the test, this 
is a nasal swab picture a Q-Tip 
right down to gather a sample 
from your nasal area. 
It goes in, it will be tested. 
We'll turn the test around in 24
hours. 
So during that time period, 
between when you've been tested,
and when you're cleared to move 
in to your residence halls, we 
would ask you to be extra 
cautious, until we get the test 
back. 
But prior to coming to campus, 
there is no need to quarantine 
or self-isolate. 
But I would strongly encourage 
all of our student families to 
recognize that this COVID-19 is 
a contagious, spreadable 
disease. 
And so to take some natural 
precautions that you're probably
doing anyway in your household 
before you travel to Eugene. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  Sure. 
Another question we've received 
is we've talked about an 
enhanced first-year experience. 
What -- why is that important 
really for this class? 
And for their start of their 
academic year? 
-- Roger Thompson:  Yeah, I 
think it's really important, 
because, you know, I've said for
years, every freshman class, 
what makes a freshman class, is 
a shared experience. 
Right? 
The freshman class that entered 
in 2018 versus 2014, they had 
different experiences, so what 
makes a freshman year is 
something that's shared. 
It's done together. 
And so while this freshman class
may not be exactly like last 
year's, due to COVID, it will be
a shared experience, and it will
be an opportunity for students 
to quite frankly, no offense to 
the families, get out of your 
parents' house and come to the 
university and meet new people 
with all the safe precautions 
we've discussed. 
And to begin to create your 
university of Oregon experience.
Your freshman experience which 
will be unique to you and 
particularly unique to this 
entering class of 2020. 
So Jennifer, we have so many 
wonderful things planned from 
our orientation team to our 
colleagues, Kris Winter who 
comes up next and others, there 
are many great plans in place to
make this freshman year an 
incredible one. 
Different than others, but it 
will be wonderful. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  Thanks so 
much, Roger, stand by. 
I know we'll have more questions
for you about housing and 
students, and, of course, we've 
got lots of questions also about
what it will be like on campus, 
the student life aspect and 
joining with -- joining us now 
is Kris Winter who is our dean 
of students, so Kris, the 
president has said there will be
both virtual and online academic
social and recreational 
activities. 
What can students expect for 
example can they go to the 
library? 
In the EMU? 
-- Kris Winter:  Fantastic 
question Jennifer we're hearing 
a lot of that from students, 
they really want to say what 
fall term is going to like like 
for them. 
Yes, we're working very hard to 
ensure students have some 
engagement opportunities once 
they rejoin us on campus or once
they join the duck family leer 
at U of O, our student union 
will be open for dining options 
there's options there, estudios 
and craft center, moving 
workshops outside. 
Our recreation center will be 
open, students can use lap swim,
some of the fitness rooms will 
be open. 
You could even go boldering as 
well. 
Our library will be open. 
I don't know if you knew this 
Jennifer but our outdoor program
was the first program, this side
of the Mississippi and Oregon in
the fall is a wonderful place 
for students to really get 
outside, and explore so you can 
rent paddleboards, canoes, 
hiking equipment, tents for 
camping out so there's a lot of 
opportunities for students to 
really engage on campus as well 
as locally as they explore their
new home. 
We're also focusing on some 
identity based virtual social 
hours, we really think it's 
important for students to 
connect with each other in a 
variety of ways and we also know
some students have varying 
comfort level with the in 
person. 
So we will still have some 
remote opportunities for 
students to meet with each other
and to learn a little bit more 
about each other as they adjust 
to their new home or rejoin the 
university community. 
I also think it's important to 
note we keep having new things 
added all the time. 
For students to engage with and 
participate in. 
So a couple of resources I want 
to talk about one is the remote 
resources Web site. 
That is updated very frequently,
listing services, supports, and 
activities for students. 
And I also want to let students 
know they should check their 
e-mail every Thursday for quick 
quacks, those are e-mails that 
are sent out to talk about 
engagement opportunities for 
students on campus. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  All right.
Thanks so much. 
So before I let you go, though, 
of course, the state of Oregon's
working really hard to mitigate 
the spread of COVID-19. 
We're actually fortunate in Lane
County, to have a very 
relatively low number, in the 
state. 
And we definitely want to make 
sure that it stays that way and 
that people are healthy and 
safe. 
How is the UO promoting safety 
to our students, both living on 
campus and off campus? 
Kris Winter:  We have been 
putting a lot of work into that 
this summer, our students are 
not only members of our campus 
community, they're also members 
of the Eugene community and so 
we are launching an educational 
campaign for students that 
explains not just the community 
expectations that we have. 
And expectations around how 
students can slow the spread of 
COVID as deb went through; but 
also how to talk with COVID 
issues with your roommates. 
So what conversations should you
engage in before you move in 
with someone, and no 
expectations -- inviting people 
to your home and wearing masks 
when you're in your home. 
We'll also have some more 
information going on about how 
to host safer small gatherings 
for students preferably outside 
so that students learn a little 
bit and have some educational 
exposure to what we would want 
them to engage with. 
If they choose to do that this 
fall when they're here. 
I have personally held meetings 
with property managers, our 
religious directors association 
that works with a lot of 
religiously affiliated coops off
campus. 
City leaders. 
City officials. 
Our fraternity and sorority life
community to talk about 
resumption plans and to build 
better connections and 
partnerships so that we have a 
web of support for our 
off-campus students, we think 
that's really important. 
We know our on-campus students 
have fantastic colleagues on 
housing but we also want our off
campus to know they are not 
alone as they navigate this new 
normal for folks, and finally, 
we're very excited about a very 
new partnership with peace 
health and lane county public 
health, where we will be 
engaging some of their help with
our fraternity and sorority 
chapter houses as well as some 
large apartment complexes to get
some more guidance from them 
about things that we can do to 
make those locations as safe as 
possible. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  That's 
great. 
How about enforcing of mask 
wearing and distancing? 
I know that is a question we get
a lot. 
How if someone is not wearing a 
mask do we handle that? 
-- Kris Winter:  Part of the joy
of my work I get to dip in the 
realm of the student conduct 
piece. 
So I think it's important we -- 
this is a shared responsibility.
Our whole community, is 
responsible for being 
accountable to themselves and 
accountable to others and 
following some really simple 
guidelines that we have. 
Set out that aren't that hard to
follow to stop the spread of 
COVID. 
We're following a state law and 
so it's important to know that 
it's not just something the 
university is saying our 
students should do. 
It is a state law that we have 
also made into our campus policy
so it is important to note that 
as well. 
This isn't unique for us.  You 
know, we have a student conduct 
process that's been in place 
since the institution started. 
Back in 1876, I believe. 
So this isn't new for us. 
This is something that we have a
process in place that if a 
student is not able to adhere to
policy or law, that we have a 
follow-up accountability option 
for students. 
It is always going to be 
educational in nature, we are an
institution of higher education.
But we do have the option, if 
students aren't able to follow 
those community standards of 
going into the conduct that is 
beyond education that helps 
students to understand that 
there are some severe 
consequences when they're not 
able to follow those pretty 
simple steps that we've laid out
for them. 
If a student falters, again, 
we're able to address it through
these processes. 
It is an individualistic 
approach. 
We don't have a blanket 
statement for every situation. 
And we have very dedicated staff
that are committed to helping 
students understand that 
consequences of their behaviors.
We also -- on our dean of 
students Web site a reporting 
form, so if you have a concern 
about next door neighbor or a 
fellow student that's not 
following policies or 
guidelines, you can report that 
through our dean of students Web
site -- Jennifer Winters:  
Kris, I'm sorry I interrupted 
you there. 
That was a really important 
point, I really appreciate that.
I would like to now address what
happens if a student feels sick 
or tested positive for COVID? 
We know that is a big concern, 
and we've had many questions 
about this. 
And for this section we're going
to bring in four people we've 
already heard from. 
Deb from health services, Kris 
from student life, and Roger 
Thompson with enrollment. 
And enrollment management and 
student services rather. 
So Deb, let's start with what 
happens if a student doesn't 
feel well? 
Can all students go to or call 
the health center ahead of time?
Debra Beck:  Yes, all students 
can -- whether they're on campus
or off-campus, access the 
student health services. 
The services are set up so we 
ask if they're not feeling well 
to call us first, this will 
allow us to talk to them, assess
their symptoms, and decide the 
best course of action for them. 
Students who are exhibiting 
signs of COVID-19 or signs of 
illness that we consider might 
be COVID before we clinically 
diagnose them, will be asked to 
go to a separate entrance off of
Aggott street and this entrance 
will allow them direct access 
into a clinical environment that
keeps them desire while there 
and keeps our well students away
from those who are exhibiting 
symptoms. 
So we definitely have a great 
practice in place. 
The call-first campaign is out 
there for nonroutine 
appointments or for those who 
are ill same day -- Jennifer 
Winters:  All right. 
Thank you, so if a student is 
living in housing, Roger, and 
they get COVID, what is the -- 
how will we support them and 
what is the next step? 
-- Roger Thompson:  Yeah, if a 
student is in university housing
and they test positive for 
COVID, we're going to move them 
into a residence hall that we've
set up for students who have 
tested positive. 
Once they arrive in that hall 
they will have tremendous 
support not just from Housing 
and University Health services 
but many other areas across 
campus. 
So while the student is in a 
different residential facility, 
and a bit isolated until they 
clear through the symptoms and 
have negative tests, they will 
not be alone. 
I don't want people to interpret
isolation as alone. 
There are many support services 
that we will place around that 
student. 
To ensure that they can continue
to succeed academically. 
That they can get better and 
healthy. 
And once they're cleared and 
we've had negative tests from 
COVID, then they can move right 
back into their residence hall 
where they were before the 
positive test showed up. 
So I guess what I would say, 
Jennifer, is we've tried to 
think through all the ways that 
we can be supportive of students
who test positive. 
And to ensure that three meals a
day are delivered to their new 
residents hall, that we have 
teams reaching out to support 
them; both in terms of physical 
and mental health. 
As well as lots of other support
services. 
So for those students that do 
test positive, I think we've got
a good plan in place to ensure 
that they're well-supported 
academically, and socially -- 
Jennifer Winters:  Thank you so 
much. 
Kris, if -- for the students who
are living off campus and even 
for those who are living at 
home. 
How can the university support 
these students if they have a 
health issue, and, obviously, 
they need to be able to continue
their education and continue 
progressing towards graduation? 
Kris Winter:  Sure just because 
a student lives off campus or 
remote. 
We still care. 
We talked about the coronavirus 
response team, they are people 
on the front line, take a call 
refer students to a place to go,
to get the support they might 
have need for. 
So we can help make sure that 
they know how to get food 
delivered. 
We can connect them with our 
financial assistance if they 
can't pay the delivery fee for 
that food. 
We can help them figure out an 
isolation plan, if they're at a 
place where they need to find 
some separation. 
So we can even help them with 
accommodations and communicating
with their faculty if they're 
worried about their illness, and
academic success so we will 
absolutely have some supports 
for students, even if they are 
living off campus or at home -- 
Jennifer Winters:  Thank you so 
much everyone, I do want to 
point out, I know we're getting 
lots of questions and we 
appreciate you sending them in. 
We've received more than 100 
questions just during this 
program and we're trying to get 
to all of your questions as 
quickly as we can, I also know 
this is a lot of information, so
please use our Web site, 
coronavirus.UOregon.edu, we have
it all segmented out with all of
this information, so that if you
don't catch something or you 
want to watch this video later, 
we'll have that information for 
you. 
Now, we would like to turn to 
president Schill for another 
question that we've received. 
President Schill, some students 
and parents are asking:  Why is 
the university inviting students
to live in the residence hall 
but not having in-person 
classes? 
-- Michael Schill:  So Jennifer,
one of the reasons why we're 
doing that is because, as Roger 
Thompson said, it's so important
for students to be able to 
experience the freshman year, to
make friends, to be able to make
-- create networks, to be able 
to get launched to become a 
Duck, and to be able to flourish
here during their next three 
years. 
So we believe that the 
residential experience is really
important. 
And we want to give our student 
-- all of our students, the 
option of having that 
experience. 
And, you know, Kris Winter 
talked a lot about many of the 
activities that are going to be 
taking place, we're also -- it's
not just going to be all fun and
games, right? 
We're going to have faculty who 
are going to be there to develop
relationships, we're going to 
have faculty fellows program. 
We're going to have lectures 
there. 
All of that sort of thing, so 
it's going to be a very robust 
experience. 
And we believe that we can keep 
the students safe. 
We think that we can do testing,
periodic testing. 
We can really maintain all of 
our safety rules, in the -- in 
the residence halls. 
We would love to be able to move
to in-person classes, and 
indeed, we're likely to phase-in
towards there, as we get closer 
to the winter quarter. 
But one of the things that we 
don't have right now is the 
ability to test all of our 
students who live off-campus. 
We will get that capacity. 
Probably around November, or so.
But what we -- right now, what 
we want to do is we want to give
all of our incoming students -- 
and this goes for transfer 
students as well as for freshmen
-- the opportunity to really 
become part of the community. 
And really develop relationships
and friends. 
And we think we can do that. 
And what we know is, students 
who come and they live on 
campus, tend to do better in 
school. 
And we care very much about our 
students doing well in school. 
But, at the same time, we want 
to offer options. 
So students who don't want that,
who are concerned. 
Who want to stay, wherever they 
live. 
We can accommodate them also -- 
Jennifer Winters. 
 . 
All right, thank you, president 
Schill, another question we've 
received and I'm going to go 
ahead and bring in our Provost 
Phillips for this question. 
We talked a little bit about how
some classes or studios may be 
in person, and we really want to
kind of hone in. 
People want to know about 
classroom space, we've said 
that, we've got some safety 
measures. 
What does that actually look 
like for a student who will be 
in a classroom or a studio or a 
lab? 
-- Provost Phillips:  
So that's the nature of those 
particular spaces, is they are 
fairly unique. 
We have well worked out, the 
safety procedures for all the 
classroom spaces in terms of 
distancing, and podeiums for 
faculty, and all of those sorts 
of things. 
If you think about any of those 
spaces, and what we know, there 
are two essential items:  Really
that we have focused on. 
One is to make sure that our 
mask policies, are consistent 
and adhered to by students, 
because what we know from a 
public health perspective is 
that is the No. 1 thing. 
The other thing is air 
circulation:  And so that we're 
really paying attention to that 
as a -- as a primary driver. 
And then, finally, of course, 
distancing, is really important.
And so, we'll be -- making sure 
that students are spread out in 
the spaces, and so we have 
analyzed every single space on 
campus for what the appropriate 
density is. 
We actually had the fire marshal
come through and verify all the 
placements. 
We have taped down on the 
floors. 
So that's how we do that. 
And much more specialized 
spaces:  
It may be that the student would
go in and for instance use an 
art studio space just by 
themselves. 
To make sure that they have 
access to all the -- the tools, 
but then we don't have to be 
concerned about the safety 
transmission aspects, but we are
making everything available to 
the student. 
So it's really a case-by-case 
basis. 
If we were just talking about 
classroom spaces I could make 
more had it cleared with our 
emergency management team. 
We've had it cleared with the 
health department. 
We've had it cleared with the 
fire marshal so we've really 
paid a lot of attention and 
that's how we have used our time
since the end of the spring is 
to really focus on these things 
-- Jennifer Winters:  I don't 
want to get too far of 
ourselves, we're not even into 
fall yet but now we're really 
starting to think about winter, 
because we do hope we have that 
testing ability and be able to 
welcome more and more people 
back to campus, when and how 
will we know how winter term 
will look? 
-- Provost Phillips:  I know, I 
think the hardest part of this 
is uncertainty. 
I was actually just on a radio 
show and a graduate called in 
and said how come you're 
changing things on us? 
And it's our intent to provide 
information. 
To make decisions, as soon as we
can. 
And I think we all know that, 
there's a -- a great experiment 
going on, in some campuses and 
we're looking at those very 
carefully to see what works; we 
know what we can do, we're 
actually very confident of our 
own safety procedures, I think 
when you layer on top the 
county's public health ability 
to do contact tracing at a very 
high level, which we're really 
investing in supporting them in 
that. 
And then layering on top of it, 
testing, so I think the 
combination of facilities, 
testing, contact tracing, and 
then how students work with us 
so that's a critical element. 
The students need to come here, 
they need to be committed to 
their own success. 
That is, of course, we want them
to be committed to keeping 
everybody safe. 
But really, it's their 
opportunity to keep the 
university open, and to build a 
-- a university that can open, 
in the winter. 
And that will be an important 
component of all of this. 
As well. 
So we will make those decisions,
as we can. 
Can't commit to any given date 
now, and I totally appreciate 
that everybody would love to 
know... tomorrow, exactly what 
we're going to do. 
But, we'll continue to monitor 
that. 
We have a lot of dynamic things 
going on. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  Thanks so 
much. 
Patrick. 
So I would like to bring back 
Kimberly Johnson now. 
Talk a little bit about what 
students have some questions 
about what both with advising, 
and also grade options. 
Kimberly, can you tell us about 
the options for students, well, 
we have the same kind of grade 
options we did in spring? 
-- Kimberly Johnson:  Yeah, so 
for a lot of our new students 
who aren't aware, is that, in 
the spring, and we actually are 
going to be moving it forward 
for the fall, too, because we 
know students are getting used 
to the way in which their 
courses are being offered, that 
they want to be able to make the
most informed decision about 
whether to take a class graded 
or pass-no-pass, and so we 
actually have extended our 
policy, to give students 30 days
after the -- up to 30 days after
the term is over, to change 
their grading option if they 
decide that, they would actually
like to take a class graded or 
pass-no-pass, the only 
adjustment, though, are for 
seniors, we want to make sure 
that our graduating seniors 
graduate on time. 
And so they still will have 
until the end of the term but it
will be December 21st, we have 
saw that really be successful in
the spring, to allow students 
the flexibility so they can dive
into their courses look into new
areas they're not necessarily as
familiar with. 
And feel confident that they can
have these options at the end of
the term, when they actually 
receive their grades. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  So that's 
actually a really good point. 
We've talked a lot about our 
incoming class, our freshman 
class, but, of course, our 
sophomores, juniors and seniors,
they're thinking about 
graduation, so what kind of 
support do they have especially 
our upper classmen in ensuring 
that they can graduate on time? 
-- Kimberly Johnson:  Yeah, so 
our advisors have been 
maintaining all of our advising 
services, part of our advising 
services are proactive. 
Outreach. 
And proactive work with our 
students, and so, even if a 
student hasn't contacted us for 
advising we still are doing 
degree checks, and using our 
degree audit system, and 
processes to reach out to 
students. 
This occurred over between 
winter and spring term last 
year. 
As we wind down with our 
orientation advising for 
students in the summer, we'll 
start to pick up again across 
advising to review students' 
schedules. 
The other thing is that I always
encourage students to be 
proactive. 
The degree audit is a system 
that students can actually 
access for new students, we have
tutorials for that. 
An advisor typically will go 
over with that with you. 
That's one of the benefits of 
doing a video phone or video 
appointment with a student. 
You actually can see the 
advisor's screen who can move 
through or at least talk you 
through what degree process is. 
And then for students who are 
nearing towards graduation they 
should always make an effort 
that even if they already know 
what classes they're planning to
take is if they review the 
degree audit and then check with
an advisor to schedule an 
appointment, just to make sure 
they're on track, especially for
programs that have a higher 
course level -- Jennifer 
Winters:  Celebrity they think 
so much Kimberly we know they 
can go to the advising Web site,
find out information about how 
to make an appointment or get 
help. 
I would like to move now over to
Kassy Fisher, who is going to 
join us again, remember Kassy 
works for our campus operations 
and she has been part of the key
group of people, 200 people from
our incident management team 
that's been planning for our 
health and safety here on 
campus. 
So Kassy, as people begin to 
come back to campus, what are 
the state mandates related to 
gatherings in Oregon and how 
will that relate to our campus 
in terms of things like events? 
-- Kassy Fisher:  Right. 
Well, we know gatherings are 
unfortunately a great way to 
spread COVID-19 and so we're 
following Oregon's rules really 
closely on this one. 
University events are going to 
be limited to 50 people indoors 
and 100 people outdoors and, of 
course, that involves lots of 
safety measures like sign-in 
sheets and required masks and 
distancing. 
Things like that. 
Also I'll point out that social 
get-togethers, more private 
get-together in Oregon are 
limited to ten people. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  All right,
thank you very much. 
And, again, we still have plenty
of questions coming up Let's go 
now, to looks like we have Roger
who can come back in again. 
Roger, when will students expect
to get some -- additional 
information about move-in? 
About also, Information about 
what they can bring and whether 
their parents can see them? 
Things like that? 
There's a lot of details that 
people are clamoring for, and I 
know we're still doing a lot of 
planning, Roger? 
-- Roger Thompson:  Yeah, 
absolutely Jennifer! 
And thanks for that question. 
As a parent of college-aged 
students myself, I have to tell 
you, that move-in is a time of 
great excitement. 
As well as a little anxiety. 
And that all gets sort of 
highlighted and underscored in 
this COVID world so a couple of 
things that I would say:  We're 
going to have significant 
information out to you in the 
next couple of days. 
Probably hitting your mailbox 
early next week. 
That will have details about how
our move-in, testing, that 
entire process that helps a 
student transition into our 
residence halls. 
That is coming. 
And one of the things that I 
would say to the families, and 
to the students, is that, we're 
really excited to have you! 
And we hope that you're excited 
to join us. 
So know that while we're going 
to have masks on, there are big 
smiles behind that mask. 
We are really excited to get our
students back. 
In terms of moving your student 
in, we would ask that you do 
that in a very efficient kind of
way. 
We're spreading move-in over 
about a 9-to 10-day period 
instead of what would normally 
be a 4-to five-day period. 
That's to enable us to have 
social distancing, allow our 
students and families to spend 
some time together before the 
families head back home. 
And I -- I just want to reassure
our students, and families, we 
are doing extensive cleaning 
throughout our residence halls. 
You will see cleaning of common 
spaces happen multiple times, 
not just throughout a day, but 
over the course of the week. 
All of our dining facilities 
have adapted to meet CDC World 
Health Organization, state of 
organization Health authority as
well as Lane county guidelines 
so a lot of our food and dining 
facilities are going to be a 
little more grab-and-go, and not
quite the old buffet style that 
we used to have. 
We'll still have places where 
you could eat as much as you 
care to. 
It's just going to be people 
serving that food to you 
instead. 
So Jennifer, I would just say, 
you know, move-in is an exciting
time. 
It's a great time for our new 
students to be taking this 
critical step, in their lives, 
and I'm really proud of our 
students. 
Because I think they're -- by 
coming to the university of 
Oregon, they're saying they're 
not going to let COVID win. 
They're ready to come, and I 
think most of our students 
recognize that the experience 
will be a little bit different. 
But it's going to be wonderful, 
and we'll be there to support 
you the whole way through so I 
hope that helps give a little 
guidance to students and 
families. 
We have a significant amount of 
information that I think will 
clear up most of the issues 
around move-in coming very soon 
-- Jennifer Winters:  
Excellent, thank you so much, 
Roger. 
We would like to go back to our 
dean of students, now, Kris 
Winter. 
Kris, we have a lot of questions
that are coming in, regarding 
the -- how, again, we talked a 
little bit about how we're going
to work with off-campus and 
fraternity sorority life is 
something that people are 
interested in. 
Will there be testing 
requirements for folks who are 
living in fraternity, sorority 
life? 
And what will the process for 
supporting those students, 
obviously, those are houses that
aren't on our campus, but we are
-- are affiliated with us. 
-- Kris Winter:  That's a great 
question, we are not mandating 
testing, because -- but we will 
offer optional testing for 
students, in fact, any student 
that needs testing can get one 
at the health center. 
FSL, testing we're making sure 
that is an option for the 
community. 
We are working closely every 
chapter house had to turn in a 
resumption plan with details 
around what are their isolation 
plan looking like, what does 
their cleaning schedule look 
like? 
What does their food service 
look like? 
We have gone over those with a 
fine-toothed comb and 
communicating baback with the 
chapter houses, again, with 
public officials from lane 
public health and peace health. 
These are privately owned homes 
you hit the nail on the head 
Jennifer, while we don't have 
the type of sway that we would 
with our residence halls, we are
able to help them and give them 
guidance to make this as safe a 
possible environment for 
students, we also have really 
dedicated staff in our 
fraternity and sorority life 
office that are connecting with 
students to see what help they 
need from us. 
How can we help them figure out 
a better isolation plan, what 
can we do to help them through 
this so we can continue with 
this connection that's really 
meaningful for them, in a way 
that is as safe as possible. 
I will also say it's not just 
fraternities or sororities, this
is any student club or 
organizations, we have group 
living that aren't fraternities 
or sororities that any student 
is able to get that same level 
of support -- Jennifer Winters: 
Great, I have another question, 
to you Kris and then I'll go to 
our provost Patrick Phillips. 
Kris we've talked a little bit 
about some of those on-campus 
things, but can you tell us a 
little more about what those 
experiences will be like? 
I mean, can -- and we are 
getting lots of questions, very 
specific questions, like, can I 
ride a bike with the outdoor 
program? 
Et cetera? 
What are some examples of things
people can do -- Kris Winter:  
Yeah, a huge part of the college
experience, of course, prez 
Schill and provost Phillips the 
question was a part of important
part of the college experience, 
I think students will say 
outside of the classroom is what
puts the cherry on top for a lot
of students with the college 
experience, so we are focused on
offering both in person, and 
virtual intellectual 
recreational and social 
activities for students. 
Some of the things that I can 
think of that I know are 
happening off the top of my 
head, are fall term career fairs
moving forward we're also having
a nonprofit connections fair 
virtually so students can 
connect with nonprofits to learn
a little bit more about those 
options. 
You can rent a bike from the 
outdoors center. 
I talked a little bit about our 
outdoor and PE and Rec center 
and EMU. 
But students can also tour the 
art galleries on campus, they 
can join a student club or 
organization. 
They can join an exercise class 
that we'll be offering. 
We have study sessions in the 
library that students can join, 
and we'll also offer a lot of 
workshops on campus as usual, 
some may be virtual. 
Some smaller numbers in person, 
things like resilience, time 
management and organization, we 
will continue that out of 
classroom experience for our 
students -- Jennifer Winters:  
Excellent, I do want to talk a 
little bit more about the 
in-classroom experience, and I 
just want to also do a time 
check for folks, we had said we 
would be with you for 60 
minutes, we're going to extend 
that time just a little bit 
longer, so that we have more 
time to answer your questions. 
And to hear from all of our 
panelists. 
Again, so let's go back to our 
provost, Patrick Phillips. 
Patrick, I have a question here,
people want to know what the 
difference between online, and 
remote education is. 
And really what they can expect 
-- Provost Phillips:  
Yeah, that's a -- a common 
question, because, these are 
kind of an insider's term of art
thing. 
But before I answer that 
question, I just want to 
amplify, on a couple of things, 
that the dean of students said, 
Kris -- and I was just 
recruiting a new student into my
lab just earlier today and we 
were going over -- she's from 
the Southeast of the United 
States, and we were going over 
everything that Eugene has to 
offer. 
I frequently say we're the 
university of Oregon, but our 
greatest strength is we're the 
university in Oregon, and in 
this particular time, being able
to enjoy the outdoors, and low 
population density, and quite 
frankly, the low incidence of 
disease right now -- is -- is a 
great thing that we can amplify 
on; and that is something that I
know me and my family take 
advantage of all the time. 
That we can. 
So, in terms of the -- the -- 
what do we mean by remote or 
online? 
Online is -- has a very 
particular definition which 
means that it's a course that is
designed to be taken online, 
frequently, that will mean 
potentially, asynchronous 
delivery of materials, but what 
we've done is make sure that 
every online course has gone 
through a very stringent design 
process with a course designer, 
to make sure that it really 
functions well in -- for 
students who need a wide variety
of modalities. 
And that. 
And so we've really made 
investments, 50 new courses, 
have been redesigned this summer
to add on a really robust set of
offerings that we already had. 
So that's really what that 
design is. 
By remote, we -- we mean 
essentially, it's your normal 
course. 
It's just that you're -- you're 
experiencing it in a remote 
modality. 
So the experience is the same, 
and the engagement is still the 
same. 
You're still talking to your 
professor, you're still hearing 
that lecture. 
That math professor is still 
writing their equations, except 
instead of being on a 
chalkboard, it's going to be on 
a Dilay, sort of tablet, 
instead. 
But you're there, engaged with 
other students, you'll have 
breakout groups.
Students now are so 
sophisticated about these Zoom 
breakout groups and things like 
that. 
They know what that means. 
But you're still engaging with 
the faculty, with the students. 
I think another question -- and 
maybe we'll -- you're going to 
get to this, but I'm going to 
preempt is well, what is the 
engagement of faculty? 
What about office hours? 
You know, office spaces are not 
the best COVID environment right
now. 
But we do require all faculty to
make office hours available. 
I know our faculty are very 
dedicated and you can always 
schedule additional appointments
as well. 
And so to some degree, it's -- 
you have even more access to 
faculty. 
Using these electronic means 
than you do, when you had to 
schlep around campus and find 
them in their office. 
So we are here for students, the
faculty are committed to 
students, and we are -- the 
upper administration level, you 
know, committed to making sure 
that the engagement model is 
followed by all courses. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  And I just
want to make clear, asynchronous
is when it's -- as if it's 
recorded, you can go and join it
at any time. 
It's not necessarily happening 
live. 
At that moment, right? 
-- Provost Phillips:  Yeah, so 
what that frequently means it's 
not, like, an hour worth of 
material. 
The course is designed with bits
and pieces. 
And you can do some online 
exercises -- Jennifer Winters:  
Got it -- Provost Phillips:  Get
the lecture material so it's 
really a different kind of 
experience than your normal kind
of lecture course -- Jennifer 
Winters:  That totally makes 
sense, and another question you 
talked about office hours. 
But we have a question from a 
parent who wants to know, how 
would you encourage students to 
stay in contact with their 
faculty? 
And engage them and -- and 
really get the most out of that 
experience? 
-- Provost Phillips:  Well, I 
think, One of the things we 
learned from the spring, and 
that we've been working with our
faculty on, but, also, you know,
want to work with our students 
on to make sure, is we heard 
this from a lot of families, 
actually, I got a lot of e-mails
-- in March about this from 
family members. 
Can you please make sure that 
we're teaching on a schedule? 
My student needs to have a 
schedule. 
So that they wake up, and they 
come to class, and they know 
what they're doing. 
We fully recognize the 
experience, and -- the 
challenges, that students have. 
And some of those are 
motivational. 
I know that I experienced those 
myself. 
And so partially it's just 
keeping a regular schedule. 
And this is what we say to all 
students:  The best clue for 
your success is to engage in the
class. 
Engage in the coursework. 
Show up to class. 
And then use office hours, make 
appointments with your faculty 
members And in this case, in 
many cases, especially for, 
like, laboratory courses there 
could be graduate students, 
students feel really comfortable
engaging directly with graduate 
students who are closer in age. 
So, yeah, take advantage. 
I do have to say that the more 
the students are in charge of 
their own success, and take 
advantages of what we're 
offering, it is sitting here for
you, but you do have to step 
into it sometimes, and that's 
what our strongest advice would 
be. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  For sure. 
They have to be advocates for 
themselves, and really engage. 
I know we both have college-aged
kids, actually, a lot of us do 
and we're always telling our 
kids, "Go, you can do it."  All 
right. 
We have a bunch of questions 
that have come in, we would like
to talk a little bit more about 
testing so I would like to bring
back Debra Beck, from health 
services, Deb, has been leading 
a team of people. 
They've been round the clock 
practically, open all summer, 
supporting the students, 
supporting the contact-tracing. 
I would like to look at one more
question that we have here. 
So what -- if a student 
contracted COVID-19 while on 
campus, would they be allowed to
quarantine in their dorm room, 
or would they have to be 
completely removed from campus? 
-- Debra Beck:  Sure, so any 
student who tested positive for 
COVID-19 would go to a separate 
place on campus, a separate 
residential hall, to stay 
isolated, until they were 
cleared by a medical provider. 
This does not mean that they 
will be alone. 
They will have full resources, 
as far as healthcare, dining, we
would make sure all of their 
needs were met personal, and 
health-wise. 
But they would be in a separate 
area, in a hall, specifically, 
for those who need to be 
self-isolated, and well-cared 
for. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  For a 
student who may test positive, 
we talked a little bit about 
corona core, what happens next 
to ensure we try to isolate or 
keep that student and -- and 
that spread from continuing? 
-- Debra Beck:  Sure, so we have
a deep corona core team. 
They're a team of 
contact-tracers; and what they 
would do is they would call the 
student and they would find out 
where the student had been. 
And who they have been in 
contact with, and decide if 
those are really close contacts 
and if those folks should be 
tested, at the university health
center and reviewed by a medical
provider, and if they do indeed 
need to quarantine as well; so 
close contacts may be asked to 
quarantine for a period of time 
to make sure that they do not 
get the virus and spread the 
virus to other members of the 
student body, or of the UO 
community; those who are testing
positive do need to isolate for 
a period of 14 days, and this is
important to make sure that they
are no longer contagious, when 
they reengage, either in the 
residential hall or with their 
small group of friends, or 
whether they're out on about on 
campus. 
Despite using masks, 
social-distancing and washing 
our hands, we still need to take
care of those, who are testing 
positive, and keep them out of 
the -- the main UO community. 
For a period of time. 
Just to keep everyone safe. 
And mitigate our risk -- 
Jennifer Winters:  Absolutely. 
And in terms of informing 
campus, we have some pretty 
clear protocols, don't we? 
About if a student that's 
affiliated with the University, 
or if a faculty member, who's 
been on campus, tests positive 
for COVID, what are we committed
to doing? 
-- Debra Beck:  So we're 
committed to taking care of that
community member while they're 
in isolation and ensure they 
have all their needs met. 
We are very careful. 
We completely adhere to all the 
HIPAA privacy rules, and we make
sure that we do not single out 
any person in isolation or a 
contact; we make sure that their
identity is kept anonymous, and 
only a few people know, but we 
are there to help them, and we 
want to support them, and we 
will ask them to consider 
engaging with our mental health 
folks, with our medical folks, 
with their faculty and staff, 
and let them know that they are 
in isolation, if they choose to 
do that. 
So they can fully study 
remote; But we will make sure 
that their privacy needs are met
as well. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  So their 
privacy needs are met but we 
also inform a campus if there is
a case, we have a page on our 
Web site the cases page, so 
people have an awareness of the 
prevance we have on campus for 
cases that are known, I 
appreciate that Deb. 
I want to move now to Kris 
Winter, we have questions about 
health behaviors is, what we 
call, them. 
Doing our part in -- to keep the
spread of COVID from happening. 
Kris Winter, our dean of 
students, can you tell us about 
some of the measures that the 
university will be taking to 
discourage gatherings that we 
know can be a source of spread? 
Or educating people about the 
kinds of behaviors that, while 
we can't control it on campus, 
off campus we really want them 
to do their part? 
>> Kris Winter:  Absolutely, as 
we looked across the country and
see counterparts on semester 
system, this is an issue for 
schools across the country. 
-- Kris Winter:  And so we are 
working hard right now in our 
planning stages, to introduce a 
harm-reintroduction prevention 
model. 
I know that sounds wordy. 
But it's basically, an 
educational campaign for 
students to help them understand
the importance of following 
these simple guidelines to help 
them understand how their 
actions impact community. 
We're also in close partnership 
with our friends over at lane 
County public health, again, as 
we mentioned, and in working 
with them to do some preparation
with our friends at peace 
Health, around those off-campus,
those larger apartment complexes
and group living situations to 
talk through and help them set 
their plans on what their 
visiting policy looks like for 
visitors and social gatherings 
policy looks like, we will hold 
students accountable. 
As I mentioned we have a process
in place for students, that if 
they're not able to follow our 
community expectations, that is 
a route that we're prepared to 
go down, but we're hoping that 
students are able to understand 
the importance of this, not only
the actions on themselves, but 
the rest of the community as 
well -- Jennifer Winters:  For 
sure. 
And we know that our community 
will be watching and they care a
lot about our university and our
students, and they know about 
the impact. 
If a community member were to 
see a behavior that is 
concerning, what should they do 
about either reporting that 
information? 
Or -- or engaging? 
 -- Kris Winter:  I would say 
community member faculty or 
staff or students are able to 
let us know if they have a 
concern about actions or 
behaviors they're seeing with 
COVID, as I mentioned on our 
dean of students Web site, also 
also on the coronavirus Web 
site, there is a link to a COVID
concern form. 
So anyone can go into that form 
and fill out if they have a 
concern about an individual 
student, a student group, an 
employee or department or unit 
on campus, so if someone walks 
in to a department and they 
notice someone not following 
policy and not wearing a face 
covering and want to let us 
know, they can go oonline, fill 
out the if urm and the 
appropriate person can talk to 
the person to talk to them about
what was reported what the 
implications, it's frontward 
facing open to community 
members, as well as students, 
faculty and staff -- Jennifer 
Winters:  I think we also heard 
something about, a welcome 
packet and I think, that this is
probably a good question for 
Kassy. 
She's been helping, again, lead 
that team that is preparing 
students, and, of course, 
faculty and staff for the start 
of the fall term. 
Kassy, can you tell us, again, a
little bit about how we're going
to prepare students, and about 
this welcome packet? 
Kassy Fisher:  Sure thing, so we
are putting together welcome 
kits for all of our students 
that will include, a whole bunch
of information, from information
about the self- -- the 
self-health check process I 
mentioned. 
As well as contact information, 
and resources from the health 
center, to dean of students, and
all of the things that some of 
my colleagues have been talking 
about already. 
Also, in those welcome kits, 
students will find their two 
specialized university reusable 
cloth masks. 
And thermometer as well so they 
can engage in that self- -- that
part of the self-check as well. 
Kassy Fisher:  Yeah.
I think that's it -- Jennifer 
Winters:  That's great. 
I've got my mask right here 
Kassy. 
This is one of the masks -- 
Kassy Fisher:  That's the one 
Jennifer Winters:  The subtle 
gray one, I love this so much, 
and, again, everybody will be 
getting two of them. 
This one is mine, probably not 
quite as easy to hear me. 
So another question that
we have, And this one is 
actually a good one for Deb, so 
I would like to bring deb back, 
we know in our residence we're 
going to have no more than two 
students, if one student tests 
positive for COVID, what will 
happen with their roommate? 
Would they immediately be 
quarantined? 
-- Debra Beck:  So, no, we would
do a contact-tracing process to 
find out the amount of time that
the -- the two roommates have 
spent together. 
Have they been adhering to 
social distancing? 
It is likely they may have to 
quarantine, because that is 
similar to a family pod 
situation that you would have in
your own home. 
And most oftentimes that is a 
situation we would, however, 
move the student who tested 
positive, out for 
self-isolation, Do a health 
check on the roommate, and as 
well as do the contact tracing, 
measures on the roommate to 
determine that before we would 
move a roommate to quarantine. 
But it is likely that that could
happen. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  Wonderful.
Thank you, so much. 
Deb, for that information. 
We have really gone through a 
ton of questions here we know 
that probably we cannot get to 
everybody's question, during 
this Program so we do encourage 
you, to continue to visit our 
Web site. 
We would like to before we come 
to the end of our Program, give 
a chance to have all of our 
guests, be able to say some last
words, to our community, with 
some closing statements; we're 
going to, first, start out with 
our provost, Provost Phillips, 
Patrick? 
-- Provost Phillips:  Well, I 
want to reiterate how much we're
looking forward to having the 
students rejoin us, I also want 
to emphasize our commitment to 
high-quality educational 
experience. 
Our faculty are dedicated to it.
We're dedicated to our student 
success and despite the 
challenges, it is really 
important to get started or to 
continue your education. 
We know that that is the major 
inflection point, in everyone's 
life, and we certainly -- are 
going to be here to help you do 
that. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  All right,
thank you, so much, Patrick. 
Debra Beck, any final words from
you, please? 
-- Debra Beck:  Sure. 
We're excited to have our 
students back, whether they 
reside on campus or off of 
campus; the university Health 
Services, is there for all our 
students. 
We want to support them in any 
way possible and we believe that
we have all the measures in 
place, to help them physically, 
and mentally, as well as with 
all their wellness needs, we 
look forward to having them 
here, and helping them to be 
successful -- Jennifer Winters: 
Thank you, Deb, Roger Thompson, 
we would love to hear from you 
-- Roger Thompson:  Yeah, thank 
you, Jennifer! 
I guess I would say to the 
students, and families, we can't
wait for you to get here. 
Come on! 
Let's go! 
We're ready for you. 
We have done all sorts of things
to prepare this campus, and I 
just want to emphasize to our 
students:  I believe in you. 
I know this is going to be a 
challenging time. 
But I really believe in our 
continuing students that are off
campus and our freshmen students
that are going to be on campus 
living with us -- we're all in 
it together. 
And if we work together, if we 
do the things, like covering our
face, and keeping some social 
distancing. 
And washing our hands, if we do 
all of those things, then we'll 
get to be on this spectacular 
campus. 
This arboretum, this gorgeous 
place, where you are going to 
launch your future, and so, I 
just can't wait for our students
to get back. 
And for the families, the 
parents out there -- as a -- as 
a parent, myself, my daughter 
just graduated from the 
university of Oregon, I have 
more kids, college-age -- I want
you to know that we're doing 
everything we can to create the 
great environment that made you 
entrust us at the university of 
Oregon in the first place, and 
so know that we're working to 
mitigate, to meet the 
challenges, that COVID presents,
and to have a great experience 
for your students, inside and 
out of class, so I can't wait to
see you at the end of the month,
go ducks -- Jennifer Winters:  
Thanks Roger, all right Kimberly
Johnson we would love to hear 
from you too -- Kimberly 
Johnson:  Yeah, I just really 
want to emphasize that academic 
advisors, they're not there just
for you to help pick out 
classes. 
They are going to be and 
continue to be there for you, as
you think about your skills, 
your interests your passions, 
who you want to be in this 
world. 
How those courses can be 
enhanced, by new learning 
models. 
How you can be connected to 
accessibility services, if those
are support areas that you need.
The advisors really are there to
help you navigate all of these 
things, I know for a lot of our 
new freshmen, and transfer 
students, those that aren't 
familiar with the University 
Campus and how things operate, 
that really is often the role 
that advisors help you play. 
We help you -- help you 
navigate; help you transition, 
help you understand how to be 
very successful and how to 
utilize your resources, and so 
regardless of whether COVID was 
here or not. 
That's our core mission and it 
just gets enhanced by the fact 
that things slightly change. 
The other thing that is just 
important to emphasize, we're 
going to continue to maintain 
our inclusive and equity lens 
we're using as a campus and 
enhancing those. 
Our multicultural services and 
programs, the things we offer 
for some of our identity-based 
programming -- those are the 
robust things we bring to you as
students so that you not only 
are engaging in academic, and 
ways that you can, you know, 
think about your career; but 
just who you are, who your 
identity is. 
How that connects to the larger 
broader community here at the 
university of Oregon. 
I'm really looking forward to 
meeting our new students, really
looking forward to maintaining a
connection, with our continuing 
students. 
>> Jennifer Winters:  Thanks so 
much Kimberly. 
Kassy Fisher, some final words 
from you -- Kassy Fisher:  Sure 
I'll add that I'm proud of the 
health and safety measures we've
put in place, it's really 
important our campus is as safe 
as possible, a place that it can
be for our students. 
This year, is going to be 
different in many ways, but the 
sense of excitement that we get 
this time of year, is the same. 
And I am absolutely thrilled to 
welcome our students, new and 
returning, to campus. 
Very soon -- Jennifer Winters:  
Thanks Kassy! 
And finally, Kris Winter our 
dean of students, let's hear 
from you -- Kris Winter:  Thank 
you, Jennifer. 
I just want to acknowledge that 
this was not the college 
experience that most people 
thought they would be going 
through. 
But here we are. 
And we're in this together. 
As Roger mentioned we've done 
all of this work to prepare, and
now we need your help to help us
continue to be a safe space for 
all of our fellow Ducks, let's 
look out for Ducks, and so we 
need people to continue with 
that. 
Students are of the utmost 
importance, we wouldn't be here 
without our students, it's that 
simple so please know we are 
working hard to ensure we can 
have a safe space that allows 
for engagement and intellectual 
growth as well as social 
connections. 
We're very excited for the fall,
and we can't wait to welcome you
back for the experience that we 
think you deserve. 
Even in these unprecedented 
times, and I can't wait to get 
back to precedented times! 
-- Jennifer Winters:  No 
kidding. 
Thanks so much, Kris Winter. 
Now to close out our Program, I 
would like to welcome back our 
president, Michael Schill. 
Mike? 
-- Michael Schill:  Thanks 
Jennifer, and I just, you know, 
after watching this, I just feel
so proud of everyone here. 
There are so many -- you just 
met six or seven of our 
administrators, and staff who 
are here for your students, and 
here for you students, too, and 
we just can't wait for you to be
back, and I want to thank 
everyone who joined us this 
morning, and echo the sentiments
that you just heard from all of 
our colleagues. 
We miss you! 
We can't wait to welcome you 
back to our campus. 
Virtually, and in-person, 
safely, and responsibly. 
We continue to prepare, adapt, 
and keep up with the latest 
science, and best practices, to 
make your time with us, both 
valuable, safe, and meaningful. 
And fun, I hope! 
I also want to take a moment, to
speak to the parents and family 
members who have joined us 
today. 
As Roger said, we know that you 
are, and continue to entrust 
your students to us.
And we take that responsibility 
seriously. 
Everything that we're living 
through right now, amplifies any
feelings of 
concern, tenfold know that each 
of us is going to work as hard 
as we can, to take care of your 
students, and to
help them succeed.  
These are difficult times in our
country. 
And we will support you, our 
students, and our families, 
wherever you are, whether you're
on campus, whether in Eugene, 
whether in your families-homes, 
whether you're in a different 
country. 
Your health, and your safety are
top priority. 
Period. 
Our decision, for the fall term,
was not an easy one. 
But please know it was made with
care, and extreme planning. 
In addition to everything that 
we can do to make you safe, We 
are working hard to make this 
academic year truly awesome, as 
well as memorable. 
I look forward to the start of 
the fall term at the University 
of Oregon and to an opportunity 
to meet each of you here. 
Thank you. 
-- Jennifer Winters:  Thank you,
president Schill, and, again, 
thank you, to all of our 
panelists. 
We would like to thank all of 
you, for joining us, for this 
time. 
We know we probably didn't 
answer every single question out
there. 
So, a couple of things you can 
do:  First, check the FAQs and 
that coronavirus Web Page. 
If you don't find your answer 
there, you can call our hotline 
or submit of question through 
our Web Page. 
Also, remember, we're going to 
be e-mailing information out to 
you, on your U Oregon e-mail 
account so be sure to check that
plenty too for the latest 
information about move-in. 
We look forward to welcoming you
back to our campus, very soon, 
and we hope that you stay well,
