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I know many of you still have questions about what fall term will look like. With change happening so quickly, I want to share more detail about our plan for the fall term so you can plan for September with confidence.
As of today, you can view details of every faculty’s plan for instruction for the fall term on our website.
You may have had additional questions about what September will look like since we were last in touch. We wanted to take a few minutes to catch you up on all the ways we're working to ensure your first year at Waterloo is a fun and successful one, regardless of where you're studying.
For several weeks, teams in every Faculty have been working to plan in detail what their approach to the fall term will be. With change happening so quickly, I want to let you know more details about our plans for the fall term.
We are sharing these details with incoming and continuing students today so they can plan for September with confidence.
The Central Planning Group of the Integrated Co-coordination and Planning Committee, including the President, Vice-Presidents and Deans, has been active in developing a phased plan for restarting research on campus, with support from the Research Restart Working Group.
Last week, the Province opened the door for institutions to begin to implement phased returns to on-campus research activity by announcing that professional services related to conducting research and experimental development may begin to resume activity. This announcement has moved us into the first Phase of our planned return and as such, we will be expanding the criteria for permission to access to campus to conduct research activities.
I was so energized to hear from so many of you this week during our virtual town hall meeting. Thank you to those of you who participated and asked questions. Next week the team will post answers to the questions we didn’t manage to fit in during the event.
More than 1,600 of our community attended the town hall. That means many of you will have heard me describe the planning that we are doing to prepare for a measured return to campus.
