[Faculty] Recording of 6/24 Town Hall on Biosafety in Teaching Spaces

[Rutledge, Bethany S - (rutledge)]

Good afternoon -

Here is a link to the recording of yesterday's Town Hall with Chris Kopach regarding biosafety in teaching spaces.  Please use the dropdown menu on Panopto to select NetID and log in using those credentials: https://arizona.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6c840c80-5479-4279-9491-abe40150f458

Thank you to Tristan McKnight for his important question regarding how to report an instance of a student self-reporting to you that they have tested positive for SARS-COV2.  Jim Hunt - thank you, Jim, for your quick work! - spoke with a colleague in the Dean of Students office this afternoon.  They are working with Campus Health to develop an automated reporting system for faculty to notify both teams if a student self-reports that they have tested positive.  Details are forthcoming.  In the interim, please advise the Dean of Students of the student's name by email (DOS-deanofstudents at email.arizona.edu<mailto:DOS-deanofstudents at email.arizona.edu> or directly to Dean Washington White, kwashing at email.arizona.edu<mailto:kwashing at email.arizona.edu>) so DOS can reach out to the student to offer resources that might be of help.

Also, there were a couple questions yesterday about cleaning and equipment needs in classrooms at the Campus Agricultural Center.  Steve Husman sent me some additional detail after the meeting:

With regards to cleaning and disinfecting the 4 classrooms on the Campus Ag Center(CAC), the CAC custodial staff is prepared to perform that cleaning and disinfecting role. The 2.6 FTE custodial staff will be modifying their current schedule to reprioritize frequency of cleaning schedules for various facilities based on occupancy, frequency, location, use patterns, common areas, etc. while following the still developing  various respective guidelines and criteria. All classes are on a master calendar we keep and monitor with custodians then being able to clean classrooms  after their use accordingly. As Chris did mention, I have been participating in all the weekly Building Manager meetings and have been coordinating with all departmental leadership on the CAC while also working closely with UA FM with respect to material and supply needs to obtain  PPE's, dispensers, cleaning supplies etc. I did meet last week with the Project Manager assigned to the CAC and am coordinating that distribution from FM and have offered to utilize CAC staff to distribute the requested material to the various and numerous facilities across the CAC and WCAC accordingly and my staff  will also be installing all the dispensers and building signage in an effort to partner with FM and help get the job done. I hope this helps.


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Bethany S. Rutledge, M.A.
Director of Administration and Communications
Office of the Vice President, Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension and the Charles-Sander Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

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