{"id":1232,"date":"2020-05-19T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2024-09-24T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:39:15","slug":"preparing-fall-bright-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/2020\/preparing-fall-bright-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the Fall with a Bright Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Preparing for the Fall with a Bright Outlook\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Visit Carleton’s COVID-19 website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 19, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good morning everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you had a wonderful long weekend and that you were all able to relax a bit after two very challenging months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you know, today marks the beginning of the first stage of Ontario\u2019s Framework for Reopening our Province<\/a>. The main impact for our sector, as can be seen in the detailed list of stage 1 openings<\/a>, is the restart of research and development in a number of fields, notably in science and engineering. Accordingly, we are ready to safely start to broaden the scope of our on-campus research activities, in line with principles and procedures<\/a> developed by our Vice-President (Research) Rafik Goubran and our great decanal team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The past few days also brought good news for our students. Since Friday, May 15, students have been able to apply for the Canada Emergency Student Benefit<\/a>, part of the $9-billion aid package for students recently announced by the federal government. In addition, we received good news for international students<\/a> who can now begin their classes online from abroad in fall 2020 and complete up to 50 per cent of their program via distance learning without negatively affecting their eligibility for the post-graduation work permit program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work has started in earnest on implementing the 10 recommendations of the recent report of the Carleton University Scenario Planning (CUSP) group<\/a>. As you know, the first guiding principle in our planning is to place the health and wellbeing of students, staff, faculty, and the broader community above all other considerations. As such, we are preparing for a fall that will be mostly online, and we have already guaranteed to our incoming students that all first-year courses will be online. Registration starts June 23, and returning students starting to make their plans for the fall \u2013 with the exception of graduate students needing access to specialized research facilities \u2013 can also expect that their courses will be online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One important recommendation, in line with a recent message from the Provost and AVP Teaching and Learning<\/a>, is to further enhance technological and pedagogical support for course instructors. I would ask all course instructors to start early in preparing courses for the fall in order to spread demands on our support staff in Teaching and Learning Services, as well as within faculties and departments, over a longer period of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are also putting everything in place to support student success in these exceptional circumstances. For example, we can assure all students that Carleton will provide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n