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Shelter In Place, Ric Sheffield

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Short essay reflecting upon how much the tiny Village of Gambier changed during first month of the sheltering order. It is a statement to the residents of the Village and to the students who did not return after the break.

Baking Class Plan, Abigail Serfass

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Born from a conversation with a friend about two months into the shutdown, I began offering a virtual baking class for tweens starting at the beginning of May 2020. In the end, I hosted 13 baking classes for six girls aged 11-13 from May through August. This submission is a PDF containing recipes, "scripts," and photos.

Quaranzine, Maeve Woollen

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I made this zine for a class final, where we were asked to document our quarantine. In this class, Meaning of Death, we talked a lot about what it means to die and how we think about those who have died. In the first few months of lockdown, I turned 20, I was falling in love, I was at home for the longest time since I was a teenager, and I was just getting to the other side of some old heartbreak, so I spent a lot of time looking at my growth over the last year. This is my …

Hybrid Classroom Checklist, Wade Powell

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Checklist: Procedures for preparing KAC 237 for hybrid instruction

Quarantunes, Chris Hudson

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Myself and 3 long time music obsessed friends of mine currently spread out over Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Seattle have been compiling pandemic themed collaborative playlists on Spotify. We started with one playlist and after we got to over four hours of music, we decided to start a second volume. We're currently working on volume four. The songs are included because of lyrics and/or title or because of feelings they provoke or some combination thereof. The only rule is that you can't use songs suggested by the Spotify algorithm. Playlists are publicly available after we finish them. Including links here …

Elevenses, Elizabeth Bonaudi

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My neighborhood began the English tradition of 11ses (elevenses). We meet in the street at 11:00, Mon-Sat to chit chat and check in on one another (socially distancing, of course). I have gotten to know my neighbors much better and have developed a friendship with them that I will miss when I return to work. We have been able to check in with elderly neighbors and make sure that they are doing ok and providing some socializing. It has been a wonderful side effect of quarantine!

Society Of College And University Planning Virtual Presentation, Amy Badertscher

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Virtual presentation to the Society of College and University Planning Annual 2020 conference. I presented with Christine Verbitzki, Principal with Gund Partnership. Christine and I, along with others, have worked on the new Chalmers Library project since 2014.

Diary Entry, Katie Ceniza-Levine

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It is a collection of small diary entries that I originally made for a French class. I translated it to English and edited certain things on the date above.

Senior Classics Seminar, Adam Serfass

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This document testifies to the determination, dedication, and resilience of the eleven seniors who took CLAS 471: Senior Seminar in Classics during the most challenging crisis many of us are likely to face. It is the attendance sheet for the course. It shows that, in spite of it all, seven of the eleven students had perfect attendance, making it to all 28 class meetings. In the second half of the course, when we met synchronously by Zoom, ten of the eleven students attended every single session; the one outlier missed but a single class.

Regarding the document itself. I have …

Sankofa Project, Sara Rosenthal

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Our class, the Sankofa Project, traveled to the Cleveland School of The Arts for a week long residency. This is our final project, a book that is full of interviews and artwork from our trip. We did all of this work remotely for the culminating group project remotely.

Planning For Remote Learning, Paula Turner

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Like most professors, I was thoroughly unprepared for the abrupt shift to remote learning. I attended CIP workshops, conferred with colleagues and students (particularly my invaluable student associate Max Green, senior physics major and Math/Science Skills Center lead tutor for modern physics), and scrambled hard for the past 7 weeks to make the most of what I could do to support my students' learning. I'm contributing three handwritten pages of notes I made as thinking/working documents in this process. 1) ideas, principles, and thoughts on redesigning the modern physics course I was teaching for first-year students; 2) notes on how …

Updates For Families May 1, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Updates for Families to current parents

Kenyon News Bulletin May 1, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Kenyon News Bulletin: COVID-19 Update: Phased reopening plans to employees/students

Kenyon News Bulletin May 1, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Kenyon News Bulletin: COVID-19 Update: Student Belongings and Housing to students

Video Lecture, Wade Powell

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Montage of video lecture images--first slides

Make Room For Kenyon On Our Couch April 27, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Make room for Kenyon on our couch to alumni

Kenyon News Bulletin April 24, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Kenyon News Bulletin: COVID-19 Update: Planning for Fall 2020 to employees/students

Fall 2020 Planning April 24, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Planning for Fall 2020 to current parents

Talkspace Therapy Announcement April 22, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Talkspace Therapy Announcement to students

Birthday Letter, Liz Keeney

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This is a birthday letter I wrote to a young friend to accompany a gift dropped off at his house during a drive-by parade.

Worm House, Ashley Yang-Thompson

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WORM HOUSE is a weekly zine I make; it contains original diaristic brain regurgitation.

Through Trials And Triumph, Jodi-Ann (Juexuan) Wang

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The Kenyon journey is a collaborative, open-ended and ever-renewing tale of growth, and as a graduating senior, I wrote this "letter" to the incoming class of 2024, encouraging them to I to take ownership in writing their own Kenyon story while seeking comfort in uncomfortable situations. My senior year has been cut short, but I firmly believe that the Kenyon experience is both the time spent on campus and beyond, as the Kenyon experience is one that is everlasting. This was originally written for the Kenyon Blog, Quintessential Kenyon.

Alumni Outreach, Kyle Henderson

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A short written piece - reaching out to alumni during the COVID-19 crisis. It describes my emails to alumni over the past several weeks during the crisis just to check in with them to see how they're doing as well as some of the things I've heard back. I wrote the description for this project.

Kenyon News Digest April 13, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Kenyon News Digest Spring 2020 to alumni/current parents

Kenyon News Bulletin April 13, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Kenyon News Bulletin: COVID-19 Update: Summer programs to employees/students

Sleepless In Exeter, Bryn Seltzer

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A blog post/essay I wrote for the Office of Communications blog "Quintessential Kenyon". I've worked as a Student Blogger and Social Media Intern at Kenyon since September '18. I wrote the essay after I had returned to the U.S. following the cancellation of the Kenyon-Exeter study abroad program due to COVID-19.

Diary Entry, Haley Cohen

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This is a little diary entry/narrative that I wrote a few days ago about how COVID is impacting my mental health.

Update To Current Parents April 9, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Updates for Families to current parents

Covid-19 Update April 3, 2020, Office Of Residential Life

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COVID-19 Updates from Residential Life to students

Kenyon News Bulletin April 3, 2020, Office Of Communications

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Kenyon News Bulletin: COVID-19 Update: Stay-at-home order extended to employees