Interview with Dr. Steve Scott

Well, first of all, we've got tremendous amount of cooperation and support and work of collaboration throughout the campus to make the decisions we've made and to respond to those decisions. So summer, as you mentioned, we're going to be fully online for the summer. We do have some workshops we're going to run in July, which we're going to be seeing those as a. In some ways, as a test, how we can operate in the midst of a pandemic and still protect people and do the kinds of things that we know are important. So we'll be we'll be doing some of that July and right now our efforts are really focused on how do we how do we get underway and more fully operational way and fall. And that's being done through three group of week for academic issues, how do you provide instruction, how do you modify instruction or it's needed. The second group is going to look at student life, student activities, the top group, their kinds of activities as well, student housing, what changes need to be made student housing. And the third group is focused on the financial implications of of the pandemic and the state shortfall and revenue, the potential changes and enrollment patterns.

And so those three groups are really working hard several of them have I think two of them at least have formed sub groups have been working on various issues and thinking about the decisions that have to be made and. So fall is a ways off, but if we're going to have enough mass for everybody, we better be ordering them now, which we've actually done that. If we're going to need flexible at screens to provide some space between protection between our staff online staff and students or visitors, we've got to get after that, which we've done. So certain things we need to be doing right now or be ready for the fall and we're taking those steps and really working working very, very hard to make that happen.