How do we manage student compliance with mask wearing?  A student who wears an ill-fitting mask or wears a mask improperly?  Whose judgement?

With 10 minutes between classes, how can we be assured that the room ventilation can remove aerosols from the previous 75 minute class in the room?

For classes that require close contact between students (such as clinical labs) can we be assured that we will have proper PPE including N95 or KN95 masks, shields, gloves?

What are the actual plans for the classroom? Spacing, numbers per class?  

We continue to hear that President Birx wants 3‘ spacing when CDC and WHO recommend 6’. We are not comfortable with 3’. Period. Full stop.

How can we see ventilation reports for each building?

How can we be assured that the buildings, particularly those with no operable windows (which are MANY of our classrooms) will have adequate fresh air handling and not just recirculation?

Even if I keep my office as a “clean zone” how can I be assured that the ventilation system is not recirculating air containing aerosols from the classroom next door?

Will you be removing or disconnecting air handryers in the restrooms and replacing them with paper towels?

Will there be adequate staff to clean restrooms throughout the day?

Will you be placing toliet seats on every toilet to avoid fecal ploom?

We are seeing all over the country severe testing shortages and long wait periods for results.  MLB had to cancel practice due to delays in getting results. The Mayor of Atlanta had an 8-day delay in getting results for her family in which 4 of them tested positive. If MLB and the Mayor of Atlanta can’t get results in a timely fashion, what makes the Board think that the USNH will be able to get timely results, especially when other Universities will be trying to test HUNDREDS of  THOUSANDS of students at the same time USNH is trying to do so?

What is the threshold of infection/death rate that Prior to Opening that would would prompt USNH to call for all on-line classes?

Once we open, what is the infection/death rate on-campus that would prompt USNH to send students and faculty home and switch to all on-line.   In other words, how many people must die for PSU to change course?

The decision-making process seems clearly driven by financial considerations.  Has the administration and the USNH Board of Trustees considered the financial ramifications of lawsuits that will arise in response to student, faculty and staff deaths or long-lasting health consequences of COVID-19?

Are the Board members and administrators prepared to accept responsibility for the deaths that will ensue? Are they ready to accept loss of student life? Faculty and staff life?  Community members’ lives?  New Hampshire thus far has been largely spared. When we bring 25,000 students from all over the world into our little communities, they WILL bring COVID-19 with them. Are the Board Members and university administrators prepared for the fallout from our communities?

You seem to have a plan for wipes and hand sanitizer, however the number one concern regarding spread of this virus is THE AIR. What has been done to measure the air handling capabilities of our buildings? How can I be sure when I walk in to a classroom at 12:20 after 20+ students have been in that room for four (4) hours, that I and my students are not breathing recirculated air contaminated with virus aerosols? We all know that our face coverings do NOT protect us, they protect others. We WILL be inhaling those aerosols. When are we going to see the report of this air handling for each and every classroom? If you are requiring us to return to face-to-face teaching, then it is not unreasonable to expect to see a report that indicates the safety level of the air.

What do you say to parents, students and faculty when we say we are afraid?

Are you prepared for what you will say to the parent or spouse of a student or employee when they say “This is on YOU! This is your fault my child (or spouse) is dead? Because this WILL happen. We will have cases and we will have deaths.

People all across America continue to hold Zoom meetings even for meetings of 10 or fewer. I think we can all agree that is the safest action. How do you justify throwing us in to a classroom with 20+ students? And when we have serious illness or deaths, are you prepared for the lawsuits and the emotional toll it will take on you because you decided to use 3 ft?

How come your document for students did not tell them we would be at 3ft in the classroom? What are you hiding?

You just told us at the Community meeting for the first time that we are looking at 1300 incoming students. What are you doing to ramp up the staffing to handle that many students? Such as Counseling Center? Jeff Furlone’s office?

How many of these 1300 students are academically below our typical student profile? And are we ramping up support services serve them?

Will the buildings be properly cleaned and sanitized for students that attend later in the day and on weekends? Typically by three the classrooms and bathrooms are looking pretty tired and cleaning crews aren’t to be seen.  

Why is are our pandemic efforts not being led by a person with a public health background? Why are these efforts led by people whose backgrounds are in marketing and public relations?

What are the degrees of quarantine? If a faculty member tests positive for COVID-19, who else is required to quarantine thereafter? All of their students? Anyone else who has been in their classroom or building within 48 hours? These questions are not meant as rhetoric. I am strongly in favor of reopening in the fall, and would like more quarantine specifics for planning purposes.

How will students that only attend after 4 pm or on weekends be tested?

One of the questions above asserts that "We all know that our face coverings do NOT protect us, they protect others." I think the science/conventional wisdom on this has evolved such that I am reading that the masks CAN actually provide some protection for the wearer as well as those around them. Just want to be sure we are acting on the best info/correct assumptions.

If physical distancing precludes us from accommodating the enrolled students in one room, should we be planning to hold those classes twice? Or move to a different room? I am teaching in a lab that seats 16 normally, so if I can only seat 8 I am unclear what to do.

Why are we welcoming any commuters onto campus? The ONLY safe option for resuming classes on campus is to keep ALL students, faculty, and staff ON CAMPUS. Anyone who must be off campus should agree to teach/work/learn 100% remotely.

How many student/staff/faculty covid-19 illnesses must occur before we go 100% remote again?

How and with what frequency will faculty be tested for the virus? I am concerned about the logistics of this. The re-opening help pages simply say that 'there will be testing' but there are few other details. I don't know where I will go for testing, how often I need to be tested, or whether PSU even has access to the amount of testing alluded to in the re-opening statement.

Will professors be permitted to use their best judgement when deciding whether to offer classes remotely or in person throughout the semester in order to keep themselves and students safe?

What is the cleaning schedule for academic buildings?  I believe that this schedule should be formalized and made public.  

What is the plan for aerosol and ventilation?

I want to see what my classrooms will look like before I decide whether to go back to face-to-face.  When can I do that?  

I want to be optimistic about going back to face-to-face.  We are trying to do the best we can in an impossible situation.  However, I do not intend to ""die for my country"".

Will there be a ""plexiglass"" panel that allows me to separate myself from the students?  

What happens in November when it's too cold to leave all the windows open all day?  Will the heat be shut off?

Would it be possible to get one of the BOT members to accompany us for a full day's teaching load?  (I mean, put yourself in our shoes!)

How will you handle classes with larger than ""COVID spacing capacity"" enrollment?  What happens to the remaining students?  Are you moving classes to larger spaces?  Will I have to teach ""multiple sections"" of a course (different start times)?

Labs are designed with a specific capacity in mind.  What happens to the overflow?

It's entirely possible that professors will get sick.  What happens then?

Some sort of high-school sports camp has been taking place in Holderness for the past few days.  100+ students and parents.  No social distancing, very few masks.  How can we expect our students, and parents, to be more responsible?"

Students were asked to agree that they assume the risk of a face-to-face environment.  I personally would not sign such a document.  What happens then?

If as a faculty member I get exposed by a student or anyone else that does not know they are positive for covid, are you expecting me to go home to my family or do you have a place for me (employees of PSU) to quarantine until testing allows me to keep my family safe?

Who will cover my classes if I get sick.  Is the assumption that if we are asymptomatic we work from home?  What happens if we test positive and we test positive for weeks?  If I or one of my fellow faculty members get sick (can't work even from home) are we expecting someone else to take our classes and possibly expose themselves to even more students if they are teaching on campus?  Are classes of faculty members who have severe symptoms going to be cancelled?
 
I know the students are signing consent forms to come back to campus.  What is the college doing to personally protect faculty and staff from liability?  Could a student/family sue a faculty or staff member personally if they get covid in their class and have long term complications or worst case die from it?  What is the personal liability as employees that you are asking us to take on?  If I get personally sued am I to assume that all of the legal fees would be out of my own pocket?  

Do we have to have students sign a video consent form for classes to be taped and posted depending on what modality we will have and how it works.  Does any student have the right to come to class and say they don't want to be taped?

The PSU administration has frequently referred to a survey of students (and parents?) that showed they overwhelmingly want to return to in-person learning.  When was this survey done?  I think it is very important to send a new survey out NOW to see what the opinions of students and parents are at this point in time.  With the vast majority of states seeing increasing cases and several states being overwhelmed, and with more information available to the public about the dangers of reopening businesses and schools, it is likely that manhy may have a significantly different opinion.  Isn't important to know what our students and parents think NOW?

It was indicated in a Town Hall that PSU has contracted with Quest Diagnostics to do testing for PSU students, faculty, and staff.  A quick turnaround time was promised (I think it was said this would be 24 to 48 hours).  What guarantee is there for quick results when throughout the country people are reported to be waiting a week to 3 weeks?  If results are not going to be available quickly they are useless in terms of contact tracing and isolation.

Are administrators willing to come and sit in a classroom with 20 students for 4-6 hours/day as they are asking the faculty to do?

"Will faculty and staff be required to sign a liability waiver?

What should we do about a faculty/staff member not wearing a mask?  I don't want to police my colleagues.  What's the protocol?

Some faculty have been granted the opportunity to teach entirely online.  Are these faculty required to stay home?  Can these faculty work on campus still?  If these faculty come to campus, will they be tested?  How will Admin know?

Are faculty and staff actually signing in and entering their wellness data?  How does Admin know?

Do Program Coordinators now have the authority to grant faculty online options?

Are AOMs being asked to monitor doors for people not wearing masks?  Given how overworked AOMs are, shouldn't we hire new employees for this task?  How will those employees be protected from people not wearing masks?  

Will you make a definitive statement to students regarding online vs. f2f or hybrid classes? A student must be on campus to register for anything but an “online” class. So far, despite reminding students at the class level, most international students have not dropped classes and are expecting to take the class. Although the administration has asked us to be flexible, this should be an exception. Most faculty cannot teach a class f2f when a student is not on campus.  

Given that the flu shot has only been 30% effect and does in fact contain neurotoxic ingredients and had no relationship to COVID-19. Who specifically suggested it’s use be seemed so essential that it be made mandatory

To date there have been no confined student to teacher cases anywhere in the world. Given this and the low local numbers when do all these draconian lockdown protocols that are mostly not based on science end. When do we go back to a real normal.  

Since there is no real way to prevent it’s possible occuence why is there no information on immune system boosting and treatments. There are now scores of actual clinical doctors telling us they have successfully treated real patients. This now makes this an issue that is open to debate (we are academics after all).

What is the protocol for the use of facilities on weekends? Studio art students require access to machinery and studio space to complete assignments and stay on top of class work. How do we ensure students wear masks and social distance during out of class times? Will there be staff monitors?

We keep hearing that students overwhelmingly want to return to campus. Is this based of the May survey question which states: " I look forward to returning to campus." ( See question #7 on PSU, KSC, and UNH SPRING 2020 COVID-19 STUDENT SURVEY.) ?  This does not seem like a valid question to base student demand for f2f on. If this is not  the evidence that claim is based on, what is, and can we see those data?

Can you honestly expect our students to social distance while partying with their friends upon return? If you don't think so then what are we doing?

Why is a communications expert leading public health crisis?

When will we get the protocols for teaching outdoors?

The initial testing on July 28 promised a 2-4 day turnaround. It is now day 5 and my students do not have their results yet! I am a firm supporter of going face to face considering the very low levels of COVID in New England BUT we should not do face to face without a turn around time of 2 days or less.  ALSO - please work to publicize current "Covid loads" in our area so that we can all understand when the loads get too high to continue face to face (those numbers are available from the CDC - please publish those).

Will you make a definitive statement to students regarding online vs. f2f or hybrid classes? A student must be on campus to register for anything but an “online” class. So far, despite reminding students at the class level, most international students have not dropped classes and are expecting to take the class. Although the administration has asked us to be flexible, this should be an exception. Most faculty cannot teach a class f2f when a student is not on campus.  

Will there be a sign up or list for outdoor spaces?

I plan on teaching outside as much as possible.  I don't want to fight for spaces. Can I have my classes meet off campus if it is a reasonable walk?

Will faculty be notified (if so how frequently/by what means) when a student in our class/building has tested positive for COVID-19 ?  What about colleagues in our office buildings/classroom buildings?

Will the campus receive weekly numbers of the sick & the dead? How will those numbers be publicized to the broader community?

In the report to faculty from our BOT observer on Tuesday 8/4 it appears that President Birx answered a question regarding 3 positive cases at PSU. From his reported answer it appears that these are students.  In an e-mail earlier in the week the community heard that there were not positive tests from the first round (day?) of testing. As of this morning 8/4....the community has still not been informed of the positive cases? Is the administration purposefully withholding this information?

What is/will be the protocol for notifying the campus community about cases?