Updates and Information for the Notre Dame Community
2020-04-06T08:39:57-05:00
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With the well-being of all members of the Notre Dame community our highest priority, the University continues to closely monitor the risks of the coronavirus pandemic to our students, faculty, and staff.
This website will be updated regularly to reflect new developments.
Dear Faculty and Staff Colleagues,
I hope that you and your loved ones are healthy and doing well in this unsettled time. I once again thank each of you—both those working remotely and those filling important roles on campus—for your creativity and flexibility as Notre Dame has adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic. I am truly grateful for all that you are doing.…
Dear Members of the Notre Dame Community,
It has been nearly two months since we announced the move to online instruction and remote work. Throughout our 178-year history there has been one other time when students were sent home for an extended period of time. This first closure occurred on April 23, 1879, when the six-story Main Building—which housed classrooms, dorm rooms, the dining hall, the library, the laboratory, a museum and administrative offices—burned to the ground. Hundreds worked tirelessly to ensure the core of the Main Building was rebuilt and ready for the return of students in the fall.…
University president Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., addresses Notre Dame amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Dear Faculty and Staff Colleagues,
I hope that you and your loved ones are healthy and doing well in this unsettled time. I once again thank each of you—both those working remotely and those filling important roles on campus—for your creativity and flexibility as Notre Dame has adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic. I am truly grateful for all that you are doing.…
Dear Members of the Notre Dame Community,
It has been nearly two months since we announced the move to online instruction and remote work. Throughout our 178-year history there has been one other time when students were sent home for an extended period of time. This first closure occurred on April 23, 1879, when the six-story Main Building—which housed classrooms, dorm rooms, the dining hall, the library, the laboratory, a museum and administrative offices—burned to the ground. Hundreds worked tirelessly to ensure the core of the Main Building was rebuilt and ready for the return of students in the fall.…
Dear Colleagues,
In their letter of April 28, Fr. Jenkins, Provost Burish and Provost-elect Miranda announced the formation of a Research Task Force to develop plans for reopening labs, libraries and studios. This Task Force will directly advise the Academic Year Continuity Working Group and collaborate closely with the Medical/Health/Operations Working Group.…
Dear Faculty Colleagues:
On March 6, we dispersed for spring break expecting to return, as we usually do, a week hence. So much has changed since then, and so dramatically. On March 11, we announced that we would transition to online instruction through at least April 13, and by March 18 it became clear that we would not be able to resume in-person instruction this semester. The state of Indiana issued a stay-at-home order on March 23, and most of us have been working from home since then.…
Dear Students,
I hope this email finds you well during this most unusual finals week. As other University leaders have mentioned in previous letters, we continue to balance your safety, the well-being of our staff and local community, and your understandable eagerness to retrieve your personal belongings in our planning of move-out. With a staged reopening in the state now beginning, we can share logistics for moving out of your on-campus housing and encourage you to share this information with your parents and loved ones.…
The savings will be deposited in a special Student Emergency Relief Fund, composed of senior employee donations and other private benefaction.
Dear Members of the Notre Dame Undergraduate Community:
Now that Reading Days have begun, many of you are quite busy completing capstone projects, writing essays, and preparing for final examinations. Those of us that have had the pleasure of advising, teaching, and mentoring you this year have been moved by the grace with which you have managed the various educational and related disruptions accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Each morning Father Jenkins walks from his apartment on campus to his office under the Dome. In a Spring Town Hall meeting, live-streamed this afternoon, he commented on the stunning beauty of campus in full bloom today, but also how “it’s empty without you.”
Fr. Jenkins: Lives in disarray, then “peace be with you.” Fr. Jenkins delivered an Easter message of hope from inside the Basilica that was seen by over 25,000 viewers this week.
