On March 16, 2021, President Roosevelt announced that the Santa Fe campus will soon begin offering additional but still limited in-person academic experiences to students living in the Santa Fe area. Your tutors will be your guide as to what to expect in their classrooms, and most spring classes will remain fully online with all existing protocols and technology requirements fully in place. The academic calendar remains the same and any calendar questions can be sent to the Registrar’s Office. Academic support, assistance, and experience questions can be sent to the Dean’s Office and the Assistant Dean’s Office.

On March 29, the campus is projected to shift from an orange alert level to a yellow alert level. At this time, we anticipate the following changes:

1. During the week of March 29 or April 5, undergraduate math tutorials and laboratories will have access to hybrid classrooms and limited in-person practica. We project a model in which math tutors would experiment with one session per week, held in a hybrid classroom for demonstrations at the board. Lab practica will be managed in various ways, depending on the year; tutors will provide details regarding their classes.
2. Sophomore music tutors will begin planning occasional in-person screenings or listening practica, utilizing the Great Hall, Junior Common Room, and Senior Common Room as soon as the ongoing construction of Peterson Hall is completed. Our current projections are the week of April 5.
3. Undergraduate seminars and language tutorials, and all Graduate Institute classes, are projected to remain online for the duration of the semester.
4. Some academic and writing assistants will begin making in-person office hours available, as will the Assistant Dean. Details will be circulated as they are available.
5. Some classrooms will be available as designated study spaces, with time and capacity limits, sign-in sheets, and other protocols in place.
6. Individual tutors and students may use their discretion in holding formal and informal academic meetings in person, subject to all campus protocols. Examples include essay advising, freshman advising, and seminar orals.
7. Senior orals are projected to continue fully remote, given the logistical challenges and risks of holding orals that would be hybrid, masked, socially distanced, and not open to an audience, all at once.
8. Outdoor spaces will be utilized as much as possible for non-class meetings, and the campus plans to have increasing resources (tents, tables, chairs, whiteboards, etc.) available for such use.
9. Tutors may also utilize the outdoors for class sessions and meetings, subject to balancing the needs of remote students. Tutors will, generally, have discretion in balancing opportunities for in-person experiences with the collective needs of a blended class.
10. Friday Lectures will continue to be held online for the remainder of the semester.