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These employees would be expected to work remotely to the extent this is possible.<\/li>\n<li>Such a development will cause many complications, and I have charged a task force chaired by Provost Strong-Leek to work on details of that planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been in contact with the presidents of some other Kentucky colleges and universities\u2014similar planning is underway at those other schools.\u00a0 Our planning will continue to be informed by a full range of governmental, medical and other information resources, including our own community.<\/p>\n<p>We can, of course, hope that all of this planning will turn out to be unnecessary, but it seems that we and most other residential colleges and universities in the country face the need to prepare for a major disruption. The cooperation and understanding of every member of the campus community is essential to safeguarding the health and well-being of all Bereans.<\/p>\n<p>With all my concern for this troubling situation,<\/p>\n<p>Lyle Roelofs, President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Bereans, Some faculty and students have expressed concern and have suggested curtailing some campus activities including classes and labor.\u00a0 Unfortunately, given the close proximity in which we work, learn and live, curtailing just classes and labor will not offer meaningful protection from the potential spread of infection in our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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