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Please Share Your Covid Experience!, Peter Gavin Ferriby May 2020

Please Share Your Covid Experience!, Peter Gavin Ferriby

University Briefings & Virtual Events

As history unfolds during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Remembering COVID-19 Project is collecting experiences and responses from the SHU community to preserve for decades to come. Ryan Matura Library staff, in collaboration with the departments of history, sociology, theatre arts and the School of Communication, Media & the Arts, will collect and archive the content.


Coronavirus Update 5-22-2020, The Coronavirus Planning Team May 2020

Coronavirus Update 5-22-2020, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

Last weekend, we gave you a broad overview of the SHU-Flex model and the University’s plans and protocols for on-campus, face-to-face learning in the fall. Our plans must be consistent with the guidelines set forth by the State of CT and the CDC, which continue to evolve. Since last week’s message, we have received several questions from you that we will address below. We thank you for your continued patience. In an ideal world, we would not be making any changes at all, but we must adapt our usual way of functioning to maximize the health and safety of the …


Pandemic 2020 In Myndsight, Shawn D. Denny May 2020

Pandemic 2020 In Myndsight, Shawn D. Denny

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

A poem, or rhapsodic reflection if you like, on the experience of being isolated due to the stay-at-home restrictions invoked by the pandemic. As my context is largely influenced by my involvement as a faculty and community member of Taylor University, the thoughts encapsulated also reflect that context.


The Last Mile, Michael Hammond May 2020

The Last Mile, Michael Hammond

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

My desire was to encourage the community as we head into Finals Week.


Coronavirus Update 5-15-20, The Coronavirus Planning Team May 2020

Coronavirus Update 5-15-20, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

This week we want to provide some more information about the University’s planning for the coming semester. There are many details still to be finalized, but we want to give you as much information as we can to help you with your planning. As you might expect, Sacred Heart is following the guidelines recently provided by the governor for the reopening of universities as well as guidance from health experts.


Coronavirus Update 5-8-20, The Coronavirus Planning Team May 2020

Coronavirus Update 5-8-20, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont came out with guidance for reopening colleges and universities. The good news is that the recommendations are in line with the discussions and planning that are already taking place among Sacred Heart’s task forces that are preparing for the fall semester and beyond in the wake of the coronavirus.


The Wedge, Jonathan Knippenberg May 2020

The Wedge, Jonathan Knippenberg

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This poem is fueled by the emotions of a senior year cut short and living at home again.


Professor Susan Goncalves Donates Plasma To Covid-19 Patients, Sacred Heart University May 2020

Professor Susan Goncalves Donates Plasma To Covid-19 Patients, Sacred Heart University

University Briefings & Virtual Events

Susan Goncalves, a professor in Sacred Heart University's Dr. Susan L. Davis, RN, & Richard Henley College of Nursing, has been a nurse at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport for 35 years. On March 23, when she began experiencing chills due to a fever, she knew she needed to be tested. Three days later, her results came in COVID-19 positive.


Separation Anxiety, Nisha Sidana May 2020

Separation Anxiety, Nisha Sidana

Community Reflections

I wrote this poem about a month and a half after we were sent home from SHU. A couple of my friends were talking to me one day, telling me how much they missed their boyfriends/girlfriends, everything they love about them, and their longing to see them, knowing they wouldn't be able to. I took inspiration from this, as well as the feeling of being suddenly separated from the people you love, and wrote it into a poem I titled "Separation Anxiety." I wanted to artistically express the feeling a person gets when they realize how much they have taken …


My Thoughts On Covid-19, Patrick Ferraro May 2020

My Thoughts On Covid-19, Patrick Ferraro

Community Reflections

I feel deeply sorry for the loved ones that were lost from the SHU community directly from COVID-19. The tragedy of death can feel even worse in a time like this where it’s almost as if we can feel it through all of the fear we are presented with.


Coronavirus Update 5-1-2020, The Coronavirus Planning Team May 2020

Coronavirus Update 5-1-2020, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

Our plan to offer a full on-campus program for both residential and commuter students (for the fall semeser) will not come without temporary changes to our typical way of campus life.


Experience During Covid-19, Anonymous May 2020

Experience During Covid-19, Anonymous

Community Reflections

This submission from Professor James Bartley was a class assignment from a student who maintained a journal describing her experience working at a hospital during the pandemic.


Strange April, Joe Ricke Apr 2020

Strange April, Joe Ricke

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

It's an essay about saying goodbye to my isolated April.


Some Of My Journal Entries During Covid-19, Brooke Studnicki Apr 2020

Some Of My Journal Entries During Covid-19, Brooke Studnicki

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

These are some journal entries that I was looking back on while we were sent home in quarantine. They began during the period of time when the coronavirus first seemed to effect my life. I believe they are able to show some of the ways God was working amidst the uncertainty.


Senior Night, Aleyah Rastetter Apr 2020

Senior Night, Aleyah Rastetter

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a letter regarding the loss of my senior year of high school.


Coronavirus Update 4-24-2020, The Coronavirus Planning Team Apr 2020

Coronavirus Update 4-24-2020, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

Working behind the scenes on our responses to this pandemic and our plans to get back to campus are a group of task forces appointed by President Petillo. Each task force is appropriately populated with the University staff and faculty with the knowledge and experience to tackle the issues before them, and these leaders are bringing in others throughout campus as needed.


Home, Rachel L. Knight Apr 2020

Home, Rachel L. Knight

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

I wrote this poem as a way of reflecting on my feelings about being “home” due to COVID-19. The accompanying photograph is my desk in my bedroom at “home” as it was a few weeks ago (it’s messier now).


Coronavirus Update 4-17-2020, The Coronavirus Planning Team Apr 2020

Coronavirus Update 4-17-2020, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

A few updates: In response to an executive order from the City of Bridgeport and strong guidance from Governor Lamont, we are now requiring everyone to wear a mask. We will hold a virtual conferral ceremony on May 9 and 10 to acknowledge the earning of degrees. WSHU is launching a podcast to update listeners on the latest with the coronavirus outbreak in our region.


Letter To The Student Body, Carey Collins Apr 2020

Letter To The Student Body, Carey Collins

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

Encouragement to students, staff and faculty for thriving and finding meaning during difficult times.


What Am I Actually Missing?, Jeff Aupperle Apr 2020

What Am I Actually Missing?, Jeff Aupperle

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

I wrote this after seeing other faculty share things they were missing. It prompted me to ask the question: What am I really missing?


Even Sammy Is Complying With Cdc Guidelines, Nancy Dayton Apr 2020

Even Sammy Is Complying With Cdc Guidelines, Nancy Dayton

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

Samuel Morris statue on campus with quarantine mask


Letter To Taylor Students During Covd-19, Maribel Magallanes Apr 2020

Letter To Taylor Students During Covd-19, Maribel Magallanes

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a letter I wrote for students during COVID-19 to encourage Taylor Students to remain strong in the midst of these trials.


Covid-19: Change Of Plans - A Photojournal, Tim Swanson Apr 2020

Covid-19: Change Of Plans - A Photojournal, Tim Swanson

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This photo journal was an assignment for one of my classes. From March 20 to April 12 I photographed scenes from my life as it now was due to the Coronavirus, and wrote statements reflecting on the context in which they were taken.


Invest Daily, Impact Eternity, Jacob Gerding Apr 2020

Invest Daily, Impact Eternity, Jacob Gerding

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

We were asked for a class assignment to write a letter of encouragement to the Taylor student body in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.


Letter To Taylor Students, Josh Meredith Apr 2020

Letter To Taylor Students, Josh Meredith

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

Letter of encouragement, inspired by CS Lewis' "Learning In War Time"


A Letter To The Graduating Class Of 2020, Ryan Kristofek Apr 2020

A Letter To The Graduating Class Of 2020, Ryan Kristofek

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

As a hall director in Wolgemuth overseeing seniors, I wrote a letter to these seniors as they navigate finishing their Taylor experience remotely.


Tradition, Rachel Gist Apr 2020

Tradition, Rachel Gist

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

I wrote in hope that people could relate to the feelings I had during this time. Having Taylor time cut short is hard but also helped me to reflect and be even more grateful.


Old Habits—A Semester At Home In 2020, Hannah Tienvieri Apr 2020

Old Habits—A Semester At Home In 2020, Hannah Tienvieri

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a poem I wrote after the student body was sent home for the remainder of the spring semester. This piece is an expression of the isolation and unique feeling of regression that came in the early days of the pandemic, particularly caused by being confined to my childhood bedroom.


My Story, Tesia Juraschek Apr 2020

My Story, Tesia Juraschek

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

My first reactions to COVID as we learned that it would affect our schooling.


Holding My Hand, Marylou Habecker Apr 2020

Holding My Hand, Marylou Habecker

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a piece that I have written to try to give HOPE to others in the middle of this crisis. A story I witnessed taken from another part of the world during a horrendous time of war gave me HOPE. He is Holding My Hand.