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SENT ON BEHALF OF DR. JR RAO:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Per the provost's email below, please note that we will be conducting urgent training sessions for faculty members next week.
Please keep an eye out for the training session schedule which will be disseminated soon. </span><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Rao, J R <rao@Central.UH.EDU><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 6, 2020 4:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Knudsen, Rachel W <riward@Central.UH.EDU><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: FW: UH prepares for COVID-19</font>
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From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Rao, J R</strong> <span dir="auto">
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Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 4:13 PM<br>
Subject: FW: UH prepares for COVID-19<br>
To: <a href="mailto:jrjrao@gmail.com">jrjrao@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:jrjrao@gmail.com">jrjrao@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Paula Myrick Short, Provost<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 6, 2020 4:12:48 PM (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)<br>
<b>To:</b> Rao, J R<br>
<b>Subject:</b> UH prepares for COVID-19<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px">Dear Faculty:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px">There are now five confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Houston area. Should those numbers increase in the next days and weeks, the primary public health effort will be to reduce the spread of infection by limiting the amount of
time large groups of people spend together in close proximity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>In the event of a large-scale COVID-19 outbreak</strong>, the University of Houston will join this public health effort by cancelling all in-person, face-to-face classes and limiting face-to-face, one-on-one instruction
until such time as it is advisable to return to campus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Should we face a large-scale outbreak</strong>, as an alternative to conducting in-person, face-to-face classes, the University of Houston will require all faculty instructors to teach their current spring 2020 classes
employing a remote, online format, using either the Blackboard or CourseWare learning management systems. All spring 2020 classes currently have a Blackboard class shell which can be accessed by faculty instructors through the Blackboard Learn portal icon
via the <a href="https://cloudapps.uh.edu/sendit/l/vy5LczFViFxM6qmx2s8gDQ/kS5XKqRo6892q2ARz892n3TStA/MJ763ttXyIHww0NwY5IGizAA" target="_blank">
AccessUH</a> page. Registration and details for upcoming online sessions, quick tutorials, and additional resources for Blackboard can be found at <a href="https://cloudapps.uh.edu/sendit/l/vy5LczFViFxM6qmx2s8gDQ/8Lw763nBGuxeqMTtR6B2YnAw/MJ763ttXyIHww0NwY5IGizAA" target="_blank">instruction.uh.edu</a> and
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uh.edu/fdis</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px">Please send any questions to <a href="mailto:provost@uh.edu" target="_blank">
provost@uh.edu</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px">Warm regards,</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Paula Myrick Short</strong><br>
Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UH System<br>
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, UH</span><br>
<a href="mailto:provost@uh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff">provost@uh.edu</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff"> | 832-842-0550</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10px"><em><span style="color:#ffffff">This is an official message sent by the University of Houston. To verify the validity of this message, email
</span><a href="mailto:security@uh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff">security@uh.edu</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff">.</span></em></span></p>
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