may require revision of our general education assessment practices, and the general education committee is available to help with that process. He noted that the mathematics program has already done this for Fall 2020.
A guest asked who is responsible for audits of the general education core. Dr. Schneller answered that faculty advisors and university college do this, and the registrar does a final audit before graduation.
Dr. Dailey offered thanks to the faculty for our cooperation with the transition to the new Blackboard format. He said that we will switch to the “Ultra” experience for the online classroom next year and that soon “terms” would be available as a category for organizing our “Courses” view by semester. This update will also group courses by discipline.
He acknowledged that there was a glitch between Blackboard and WIRED at the start of the semester. Suddenly, they stopped communicating with each other and many students who were registered in WIRED didn't get loaded into Blackboard. Mr. Ross in IT is entering the students manually, one-by-one, and will be done soon.
Finally, Microsoft Teams is now integrated into Blackboard.
Nurse Todd reported that Amy Olds will be sending student excuses, so look for that name on the excuse emails. We do already have student Covid 19 cases in the first week of the semester. We have tested 637 resident students and found two positives. She expects that at least another 200 students will be coming in for testing. Regarding the vaccination, Nurse Todd reported that she has had both doses of the vaccine and is fine, with no significant side effects. During Safety Week, Wild Health will be doing surveillance testing in the Student Center. This will recur in early February. Cleaning supplies are available from Facilities.
A senator asked if off-campus students notify Student Health when they are in quarantine, and the nurse responded that they are supposed to. Another question was whether student internship placements in the community would be eligible for 1(c) vaccination status. Nurse Todd said the supervising faculty should get in touch with her and she would follow up with the County Health Department. A senator who lives in Fayette County asked if he could be vaccinated in Franklin County. Nurse Todd replied that people can be vaccinated either in the county where they live, or the one where they work. A guest asked about potential allergic reactions to the vaccination, and Nurse Todd explained that you are kept on site for at least 15 minutes after your injection to be sure that no allergic reaction occurs, and the vaccination sites are equipped to deal with reactions if they do happen. She said that allergic reaction might be possible for anyone who routinely carries an epipen.