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Will I Ever Have A Normal College Experience?, Mia Anonymous

Community Reflections

During a time of stress, sadness, and panic. Covid started my senior year of high school and still leading into college. Will life go back to normal?

The Class Of 2020, Anonymous

Community Reflections

The class of 2020 will go down in history as one of the most unique graduating classes in history.

Coronavirus Personal Experience, Anonymous

Community Reflections

The document explains how I felt and what I experienced during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anything Can Happen Within A Blink Of An Eye, Anonymous

Community Reflections

This reflects my experience during Covid-19 because it compromised my senior year of high school. Class assignment for Professor Marino, Western Civilization.

A Time To Remember, Anonymous

Community Reflections

COVID has truly been a time to remember. Six months ago, on March 13th the whole world changed. Experiencing a global pandemic first hand has been an experience I will never forget.

Coronavirus Update 8/21/20, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

Opening-of-School Activities --Learning What NOT to Do --More on Masks --Faculty --Testing/Contact Information --Study Areas for Commuters --Daily Health Symptom Survey --We're Here to Answer Your Questions.

Coronavirus Update 8-7-2020, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

We have updates for you, including the latest guidance from the State of CT regarding visitors from high-risk states, an important change to the University calendar and updates on required testing for students.

Take A Deep Breath, Edward Stewart

Community Reflections

Email sent by Fr. Ed Stewart on his departure from SHU: Early on in the pandemic, Father Tony asked Campus Ministry and Volunteer Programs staff to come up with a way of reaching out to the wider SHU community during our dispersal. With that, the daily Take A Deep Breath reflections were born.

Factors In The Probability Of Covid-19 Transmission In University Classrooms, Charles Connor

Numeracy

University students and faculty members need an effective strategy to evaluate and reduce the probability that an individual will become infected with COVID-19 as a result of classroom interactions. Models are developed here that consider the probability an individual will become infected as a function of: prevalence of the disease in the university community, number of students in class, number of class meetings, and transmission rate in the classroom given the presence of an infected individual. Absolute probabilities that an individual will become infected in a classroom environment cannot be calculated because some of these factors have unknown values. Nevertheless, …

Return To Work Guidelines, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

"Return to Work" employee transition timeline, guidelines and requirements.

Sacred Heart Faculty Adapt Courses To Changing Times, Sacred Heart University

University Briefings & Virtual Events

Altered curricula teaches students how pandemic impacts business, health care, teaching and more. As Sacred Heart University professors fully absorbed the reality of the pandemic and what it meant for their students and classrooms, they came to an important decision: “teach the virus.”

Remembering Covid-19, Ellis Badger

Community Reflections

I have recently started working as an Occupational Therapist for Wellpath Recovery Solutions at Bridgewater State Hospital, a maximum security, forensics hospital, including working in the Covid 19 Unit.

Outside of work, I am able to spend a lot of time with my family, exercising, and woodworking. I keep in close contact with my classmates and we are always there for support through these tough times.

Giving Back To Our Communities During Covid-19 Pandemic, Kylie Roberts

Community Reflections

My first year in the SHU physical therapy program was unfortunately brought to a halt and transitioned online earlier this year due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Sadly, this pandemic has affected my family and me in more ways than school moving to online courses. My grandmother Gloria passed away due to COVID-19 in mid-April.

Perspectives Of A Graduating College Student, Kristin Anonymous

Community Reflections

My personal thoughts/ reflections about this time and its impact as a graduating college student.

You've Been Here Before, Abby Wilson

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a poem about what it felt like to leave campus after having spent the last semester abroad. I compare getting to come back to campus after studying abroad to what I hoped it would be like to come back to campus after the spring semester was abruptly moved online.

My Mother's Obituary, Her Death From Coronavirus, Annemarie Murphy

Community Reflections

My mother's obituary, her death from Coronavirus. Her mention in the New York times, U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, an Incalculable Loss (May 24, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.