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"An Important Message on Coronavirus"

This email was from City University of New York (CUNY) Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodriguez, was issued only a few hours after Gov. Cuomo's closure tweet. In this email, Chancellor Matos Rodriguez provided formal clarification regarding CUNY's transition to remote learning instigated by New York state, declaring an "instructional recess" of one week for CUNY faculty to transition their courses to online instruction. As well, the email listed resources and ongoing measures provided by CUNY administration.

This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Prof. Matthew K. Gold's Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, the project wanted to document the moment of crisis response by taking a critical approach to educational technology.

Source | CUNY Distance Learning Archive
Creator | Matos Rodriguez, Félix V.
Date Created | March 11, 2020
Rights | Public Domain.
Item Type | Text
Cite This document | Matos Rodriguez, Félix V., “"An Important Message on Coronavirus",” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed May 1, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/12322.

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