Hello Everyone!
It’s been a challenging and busy summer for us all, and as we are now at the beginning of the 2020-21 academic year, we wanted to provide an overview of what Campus Services departmental activities will look like this fall.
Dining Services is has recently reopened a number of locations across campus:
- Richcraft Tim Hortons is now open to anyone on campus.
- The caf is now open to students with meal plans only.
- Oasis will be transitioning to be an alternative location to the caf during the day, and then a regular restaurant during the evening.
- The University Centre Food Court will be opening on September 8th.
- The University Centre Starbucks will also be opening on September 8th.
- Our new food truck, called Rodney’s Kitchen, will be opening soon!
Dining Services’ new food truck, Rodney’s Kitchen!
Dining Services will also be launching a new app called Hey Chef that lets you order your food in advance, skip the line, and get your food faster. If you want to know more about what’s happening, you can check out our COVID page here, and our res move in hours page here. Lastly, for a more in-depth dive into what’s happening with Dining, you can check out our new 2020 Dining Magazine! It’s now digital and covers a lot of exciting information.
While the Bookstore remains busy with on-line orders, the physical store also recently reopened to in-person shopping. A limited number of patrons can browse the store to make purchases and they are also able to pick up their online orders within the store. For our staff ordering and receiving textbooks, it has been busy as usual processing instructor orders of textbooks and managing the inventory that comes in daily. As online orders have expanded significantly, a dedicated section of the store has been created to process these orders and the shipping and receiving team has been busy packaging and shipping out orders.
Mail Services has temporarily relocated to the McIntyre Exam Centre (124 Paterson Hall). Campus mail delivery has been halted, so we’re asking departments to make appointments to pick up their mail. As a result of reduced building access, the Mail Services team is acting as central receiving for much of the campus. In order to ensure the team can manage this increased volume of mail and packages, a larger workspace and better storage facilities were required. In addition, the team is finalizing the implementation of a tracking solution to ensure that we can manage this increased volume of mail and packages.
The Print Shop has been busy producing informational and directional signage related to COVID-19 in order to support a safe return to work on campus. General COVID building signage has been installed by our team across campus and COVID signage more specific to individual departments is also being printed as requested. Orders can be picked up by appointment by using the Qless software or can be delivered on campus. As the University plans to begin a new academic year, the team has also been busy with offset and digital printing for the campus community. Users can send their orders to our team via email or e-Shop.
Our Richcraft Tim Hortons setup, including physical barriers built and installed by STC
The Science Technology Centre (STC) has been busy with the design and installation of a variety solutions to support the safe return to campus of our campus community. The summer has been spent working with Campus Services departments such as Dining Services, Housing, Campus Card and the Bookstore to ensure that these services are able to provide safe client interactions. STC has also created customized barriers for a variety of University Departments to ensure services can continue to be delivered. In addition to supporting the return to campus, STC has been busy supporting our dining locations in residence and a limited number of retail locations across campus to ensure facilities and equipment are ready for the new academic year.
All of the plans outlined above, and efforts made by our teams have been done with the guidance of the University’s Return-to-Work group and Operations Committee.
Many thanks to the various University departments that have supported our return to campus plans. This fall will be unlike any other we’ve seen and will require a lot of ingenuity on all our parts to ensure that the services we offer meet the high standards our community has come to expect from Campus Services. Luckily, we know we have a team that’s capable of rising to the challenge, as the past six months have shown us how so many of our staff have exemplified our values of Showing We Care, Being the Best, and Setting the Example.
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 in Bookstore, Dining, Mail Services, Print Shop, Show We Care, STC
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