Fall 2021 Update: President Guiyou Huang
Oct 19, 2021
Pricey University Group,
As we are now at the midpoint of our Tumble 2021 semester, I want to categorical my gratitude to our pupils, school, and staff members for encouraging us get to this position. Prior to the start of the slide semester, we put into position a obligatory COVID-19 testing method in which college, workers, and students are required to check weekly unless of course evidence of vaccination is provided. Mainly because of your cooperation and your determination to retain our College local community (and individuals further than) safe and sound, we keep on to have an in-person experience as a result significantly, and for that I thank you.
At this point in the semester, nearly 65 {fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of our scholar body and practically 88 per cent of our faculty and workers have been vaccinated. Having vaccinated assists our communities mitigate the risks of Coronavirus and its variants. Doing work with our McDonough County Well being Division, we have hosted vaccine clinics on our Macomb campus this semester, and have two much more clinics scheduled on Monday, Oct. 25 and Tuesday, Nov. 9. People today who acquire a booster vaccine do not need to resubmit their vaccine card.
When we are delighted with these vaccination quantities and the point they are expanding weekly, those people who are not vaccinated should proceed to comply with the mandated weekly test. We will go on to function with our local wellness departments in Macomb and Moline to be certain we provide vaccines, checks, and other protection measures to continue to keep the customers of our Leatherneck family members harmless.
We realize that COVID-19 has established difficulties for quite a few higher education learners and their family members, and we are continuing to do what we can to relieve the economic pressure that is impacting our learners. I want to remind our pupils and people that the WIU Place of work of Economical Help has in position a money circumstance enchantment for a overview of financial assist eligibility working with projected 2021 profits compared to acquired 2019 money. If you have been economically impacted by the pandemic, we really encourage you to total a distinctive instances attractiveness at bit.ly/WIUFinAidSpecialCircumstances. In addition, WIU will allocate Bigger Schooling Crisis Relief funds amongst the Slide 2021 and Spring 2022 semester to learners enrolled in a least of 6 credit several hours who are pursuing a diploma via WIU and conference or have properly appealed satisfactory tutorial development. No software is necessary to implement for the emergency funds nevertheless, students will have to comprehensive the Crisis Help Authorization kind on STARS.
We will carry on to check WIU’s pandemic-related protocols and treatments, and will make variations and conclusions as essential, based on steerage from point out and federal public health authorities. Make sure you recall to go on pursuing our University’s pandemic-related protocols, such as putting on encounter coverings in all indoor structures/options, registering events and things to do through Scheduling and Occasion Expert services, complying with the University’s vacation guidelines and much more. COVID-19-related information and facts and protocols can be discovered at wiu.edu/coronavirus.
We recognize what each of you carries on to do to ensure a secure and healthy Western Illinois College local community.
Be very well,
Guiyou Huang, Ph.D.

President

Western Illinois University
Posted By: WIU Information ([email protected])
Business of University Relations
