Hello,
I am a clinical psychologist from the UW Counseling Center. I wanted to share the list of psychoeducation workshops that we are offering for UW students in Spring quarter. Please share with your faculty and refer students as you see fit.
These workshops are particularly helpful for undergraduate students.
Hi All,
As we approach winter and this coming long weekend, I wanted to remind everyone of the practices we should follow to ensure a safe academic and work environment.
Please be mindful to safeguard our space, research, and property:
In addition, behaviors possibly indicative of a suspicious person include:
If you observe a suspicious person, contact UW Police immediately. Be prepared to describe the person’s behavior as well as personal appearance and last known direction of travel. If you do not feel safe/ comfortable contacting the police directly, please use the Online Campus Police Reporting System. In addition, please inform Hettie or myself of any occurrences.
UW Police Department
Emergency: 911
Non-emergency: 206 685 8973
Hi All,
As we approach the start of a new academic year, I wanted to remind everyone of the practices we should follow to ensure a safe academic and work environment.
Please be mindful to safeguard our space, research, and property:
In addition, behaviors possibly indicative of a suspicious person include:
If you observe a suspicious person, contact UW Police immediately. Be prepared to Continue reading
Dear CEE community,
Welcome back to campus for the start of winter quarter. As we all get busy with our various activities, I would like to invite you to participate in the #HUSKYKIND challenge this quarter. This campaign is organized by the counseling center to promote community and improve mental health through acts of kindness.
See below for more information about the campaign. There are even prizes to be won!
Looking forward to a healthy and productive quarter.
Hi everybody,
The university worked hard to reach out to students who were injured and witnesses to the shooting during the first weekend of October. There was also a hit-and-run that took place. We know that such events can impact the community even if people were not at the scene. In that spirit, we want to share a few resources for you to share with students and your departments:
Part of how we get through this is by being in community with each other. Thank you for being part of the UW community supporting students and each other.
I’m including all students and instructors on my reply to Dana Paek’s email below, because almost all of the information that Dana provided in her email is relevant to all.
First, welcome back; I hope you are enjoying being back on campus. To meet your on-campus masking needs, the UW central administration is providing masks to community; you can pick up these masks at various locations on campus: https://www.washington.edu/coronavirus/2022/01/27/where-to-pick-up-free-high-quality-masks-starting-jan-31/. As noted in previous emails, CEE is also providing masks for your use in More Hall 201. At the moment in More 201, we have paper surgical masks and reusable cloth masks (one per person on the cloth masks); double masking with a surgical mask beneath a cloth mask is considered a good way to “level up” you masking. Starting tomorrow we will also have N95 masks available in More 201; while supplies last, CEE will provide two N95 masks per person per week as these masks can be reused multiple times (see page 3 of the this UW EH&S document for information about reusing N95 masks: https://www.ehs.washington.edu/system/files/resources/facemask-guidance-COVID-19.pdf).
Dear fellow Civil and Environmental Engineering students,
The College of Engineering Student Advisory Council (COESAC) has received a great deal of feedback about students’ experiences as a result of the impacts of COVID. We appreciate all of the input and ask you to continue to reach out to us or our department SAC so that we can better support each other. By now, we have all seen President Cauce’s email about the University’s plan to return primarily to in-person instruction. As students, we have all experienced how challenging the past two years have been; it is important that we work together as learners navigating our education during a global pandemic and partner with our instructors to advocate for our needs.
With the return to in-person instruction announcement by President Cauce, we wanted to make sure that students know what they can and cannot expect from your UW instructors. In short, professors should be clear about their sick policy and you should not feel pressured to attend class in person if you are ill or need to isolate/quarantine due to COVID. There should be clear and fair expectations set by your professor about what to do if you are sick, how the absence will be treated, and how you can achieve the learning outcomes for the course.
Additionally, we want students to know what to do if they become ill or have a COVID exposure by highlighting the University’s updated COVID Quarantine and Isolation page and flowchart. For everyone’s protection, please do not go to class if you aresymptomatic, even if you think “it’s not COVID.” Please isolate, get tested, and notify your professors that you will be absent until you test negative or complete your period of isolation if you test positive. Activate/install WA Notify on your phone ASAP, the UW COVID EH&S team relies on it for support with contact tracing and close contact notifications.
Hello CEE Students,
We look forward to welcoming you back to largely in-person instruction next week. As messages from UW President Cauce and Provost Richards have said, we realize that on-going impacts of COVID may make it necessary for you to miss class at times during the remainder of the quarter. Faculty will accommodate these absences, but please reach out to advising staff or to me, earlier rather than later, if you need additional support once we shift to largely in-person instruction.
President Cauce and Provost Richards have encouraged you also to “level-up” your COVID protection with KN95, KF94, N95 or surgical mask, and the university is making these available to you (details will be posted to uw.edu/coronavirus this week). Double masking with a surgical mask beneath a cloth mask is considered a good approach to improving COVID protection. CEE will provide you with a reusable cloth mask and with surgical masks, as needed; both are available in More 201.
We look forward to seeing you, in person, next week.
Here are links to important updates/information on COVID Guidance:
https://ehs.washington.edu/covid-19-prevention-and-response/covid-19-health-and-safety
Quarantine & Isolation:
Updated Flow Chart:
https://www.ehs.washington.edu/system/files/resources/COVID-19-public-health-flowchart.pdf
Message regarding Student Wellness from the CEE Chair, Lauren Lowes:
I hope that you had a healthy, restful and fun winter break and that the first week of winter quarter is off to a good start. As has been the case many other times during the COVID pandemic, right now the situation seems to be changing rapidly. Following are a few thoughts, reminders and items that I want to share:
Wishing you a healthy and happy 2022 that starts with a happy and healthy winter quarter.