Spring 2021 Wellness Days, Mitigation or Voluntary Testing, Student Health Center Closed, Emergency Equity Fund

Spring 2021 Wellness Days

From the College’s Wednesday update, more on the spring 2021 wellness days:
“To respect the intent of the wellness days, instructors also should not add material to other class sessions. Wellness days are intended to reduce pressure on students which, by necessity, means some loss of coverage. In the College, certain exceptions are allowed in special accreditation cases or where scheduling additional class sessions is absolutely necessary to meet the essential learning outcomes of the course.”

Mitigation or Voluntary Testing

From the IU dashboard-
“No mitigation or voluntary asymptomatic testing will be conducted during the weeks of Dec. 20 and 27 in observance of the holiday break. Symptomatic testing through the IU Health Virtual Screening Clinic will still be available, and other COVID-19 testing options can be found outside of the university. IU will continue contract tracing efforts throughout the holiday break, so please cooperate with contact tracers to limit the spread of COVID-19.  Apply for an intersession testing exemption: Will you be away from campus through Jan. 3? You may qualify for an exemption from mitigation testing. Submit he intersession exemption form to apply.”

Student Health Center Closed

The Student Health Center, including CAPS and access to our embedded counselor, will be closed from 12/21-1/4

Emergency Equity Fund

VPR has established an emergency equity fund for rapid awards up to $2.5k to cover needs in support of women conducting research.  Eligibility:  Female Indiana University tenure-track faculty of all ranks (e.g., assistant/associate/full professors, librarians, scientists, and scholars) and full-time researchers (e.g., non-tenure track research faculty, research scientists, research associates, postdoctoral fellows, curators, and artists) who meet all three of the following criteria:

• a demonstrated financial and/or professional need;
• are experiencing a negative impact on their research productivity as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic;
• have exhausted all other sources of funding to meet stated request.