Safer Return at Cal Poly Pomona

Faculty Needed for Campus Repopulation Working Groups

Date: 4/12/21
From: Provost - Vice President for Academic Affairs 
Subject: Faculty Needed for Campus Repopulation Working Groups

Dear Colleagues:

Following Thursday’s Campus Conversation, we write to invite faculty volunteers to serve on one of six working groups tasked with planning our safe return to campus.

With the encouraging news from public health experts, we have shifted our focus to planning for a phased safe return to campus starting in Fall 2021. A campus framework has been developed that will allow us to create the necessary guidelines, practices and systems to ensure that our return is safe. This framework includes six working groups with several subgroups nested under these broad categories of responsibilities. Students, staff and faculty will be part of these working groups that will collaborate closely with the Safer Return Task Force to address issues and recommend resources, training and approaches to repopulating the campus.

The six working groups are:

  • Safer Return Task Force
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Campus Life
  • Employee and Organization
  • Campus Operations
  • Events & Activities

Please find more info on our planning framework at https://www.cpp.edu/safer-return/phases/committees.shtml and in the video of the Campus Conversation.

We are at a defining moment for our campus, and our collective work over the coming months will have lasting impact for Cal Poly Pomona. Faculty insights and engagement are critical to the success of these working groups and ultimately to our successful reopening of campus. We hope you will consider serving on one of the working groups as part of our ongoing and comprehensive response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

To express interest, please email senate@cpp.edu and include the group you would like to join.

Thank you for your consideration of this invitation and your ongoing resilience.

Sincerely,

Phyllis R. Nelson, Ph.D.                             Sylvia A. Alva, Ph.D.

Academic Senate Chair                              Provost and Vice President for

Professor, Electrical and                             Academic Affairs

Computer Engineering