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To the SUNY Community, Throughout the unprecedented novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, SUNY has responded as a system. Students, faculty and staff at each of our 64 individual campuses continue to contribute what they can and when they can, leveraging their own distinctive expertise.

MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — Before she goes in for her night shift as a nurse, Kirsten Krause does a video chat with her four-year-old son, Nicholas. He runs around the house with the phone showing her his kittens and the puzzles he is working on at home. She tells him she loves him and will be home as soon as she is done helping people, fighting back tears as he blows her a kiss goodbye. The daily calls keep her going.

NORWICH, N.Y. — The SUNY Morrisville Norwich Campus, Roots & Wings, and Cornell Cooperative Extension are partnering to help those in need in their local community. They’re accepting donations for a free local dairy and agricultural drive-thru planned on Thursdays; May 7, May 21 and June 4 at the Chenango County Fairgrounds. It will be held from 2 p.m. until supplies run out. Patrons are asked not to line up earlier than start time for this event. 

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MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — An overwhelming response has expanded the second SUNY Morrisville and community dairy drive-thru, which will be held Friday, April 17, past the college’s Dairy Complex on Eaton Street (where it was held last week). The free dairy drive is 4-6 p.m. or until products are gone.

NORWICH, N.Y. — As concern over the shortage of personal protection equipment (PPE) for emergency personnel and health care workers continues nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic, SUNY Morrisville’s Norwich Campus is doing all it can to help locally.  They’re providing emergency agencies in the Chenango County with use of an on-campus ultraviolet (UV) sterilization cabinet that allows for protective equipment to be used more than once.

Campus Access Limited until April 29

MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville is holding a drive-through dairy drive, on Friday, April 10, to help those in need in the Morrisville and surrounding community. Families in need can pick up dairy items, including milk, cheese and yogurt, from 4-6 p.m., or until items are gone, at the SUNY Morrisville Dairy Complex on Eaton Street. Proper social distancing, safety and public health hygiene practices will be adhered to throughout the event.

Just a quick roundup of a few items for you today. Thank you for all your efforts and resilience as we adapt to social distancing to keep everyone safer, while still moving forward with the semester.

We hope everyone is adjusting to distance learning, and we recognize there are sure to be bumps along the way. This email has a list of resources and answers to a lot of questions we know you have, including:

Welcome back after our extended spring break, though the circumstances are certainly much different than any of us might have anticipated at the beginning of the semester. As students, faculty and staff adjust to distance learning, there are a few announcements we want to share with all employees.

We are aware of concern among our neighbors in Morrisville about students returning to campus in the midst of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. More than 90 percent of our students have returned home and will not be coming back to campus. The few students who are here currently remained through spring break, which began two weeks ago.

Thank you for your help in making plans for residence halls for the remainder of the spring semester. It is helping us to reduce density of people and suppress the spread of COVID-19, the coronavirus.

Dear faculty and staff, Thank you for all you are doing to adapt to remote work and instruction in such a swift manner during this challenging time. We know that our students are benefitting from this herculean effort to make sure their education can continue and stay on track, even as the world changes so dramatically.

Dear Students,

Dear students, We want you to know that we are working quickly to resolve the financial impact this transition to remote learning will have on a student’s unused campus housing, meals and fees for the remainder of the spring semester while taking into account student’s financial aid awards.

Dear Students, Thank you for your responsible efforts to reduce the density of students remaining on campus. We appreciate those who have already moved out or retrieved essential belongings for the remainder of the semester. This reduces the risk of exposure and spread of COVID-19, the coronavirus, as well as the strain on our limited employees still on campus.

Dear students, Governor Cuomo has now signed the New York State on PAUSE Executive Order, taking the strongest actions to date to contain the growing spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Madison County announced its first three positive cases this weekend.

Today’s COVID-19 (coronavirus) roundup includes information about living on campus, having packages forwarded, and plans for finals to continue. Reconsidering Living on Campus If you haven’t already, please complete the “Student Plans After Spring Break” survey in Web for Students to remain on campus. This is essential to our plans to reduce the spread of COVID-19. 

We have more information to share you with this evening, as students ask questions about returning to campus, either to retrieve their belongings before returning home or to continue living on campus for the remainder of the spring semester. We want to provide as much information as possible to help inform your decisions.

We have news tonight for students seeking to stay on campus, return to campus or retrieve their belongings from campus, as SUNY Morrisville seeks to lessen the spread of COVID-19, or the coronavirus, and prepare for remote learning only, beginning Monday, March 30.

FOR STUDENTS  LIVING ON CAMPUS 

Dear members of the campus community,  Thank you for your continued efforts to isolate COVID-19 instances and lessen the spread of the virus. Several measures are in place to assist us, including some new and expanded ones. 

Until further notice, all campus residence halls, dining halls and other facilities will remain open to serve students in a safe and healthy environment for those students who choose to stay on campus. Tuition and fees charged to student accounts will continue to support these activities. 

Students, faculty or staff members who present symptoms of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) are urged to contact University Police at SUNY Morrisville, which is staffed and responsive around the clock, at 315.684.6410. Coronavirus symptoms include fever, cough, and shortness of breath.