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Some of the clips compiled in Wilkes’ video are from the home improvisation assignments, and some students filmed new work. Accompanist Chi Sharpe who played for various dance courses this spring also contributed. “I had a funk song in mind as background music for the dance clips, “Wilkes said. But when I started to edit, I noticed that many students had to push play on their device, step back and wait a moment before beginning. I was stunned by how beautiful and vulnerable that moment was before they started dancing. It was clear the piece needed to go deeper.” One remote assignment was to film a 45-second self-choreographed work with only the upper body. Another was to choose an inanimate prop and incorporate it into a one-minute dance. “I adjusted the syllabus to be sensitive to physical space and technology limitations that our students might face. Giving the students agency to choreograph allowed many to express what they have been experiencing during this pandemic,” she explained. Read more about Wilkes and her students here . Categories: Faculty News , Inside WFU ZSR Library collecting evidence of coronavirus impact on lives, professional activities May 7, 2020 Smith Reynolds Library is asking for help in collecting evidence of the daily lives and professional activities of Wake Forest students, faculty, staff and alumni during the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, the library’s Special Collections and Archives (SCA) team is hard at work on the project. Z. Smith Reynolds Library “SCA is collecting University records (including WFU web sites ) regarding administrative and academic work, but personal documentation provides insight and truth in ways that official records cannot,” the library announced, recently. “Experiences can include staying on campus, learning remotely, working from home, the shift to online from in-person learning, stay-at-home life, essential worker experiences, distancing, self-quarantine, or illness. We truly want to capture what your experiences have been like as Wake Foresters.” The library asks that students, faculty, staff and alumni consider submitting items (digital and paper) that document your daily life during this time: Artifacts and objects Artwork, such as drawings and collages Audio recordings Digital writings such as blog posts and journal entries Photographs Poetry Screenshots of social media posts Stories and oral histories Additional information is available here . Categories: Inside WFU Update on campus operations May 7, 2020 The following message was emailed to faculty and staff on May 7 on behalf of Human Resources by Communications and External Relations: As both North Carolina and Winston-Salem prepare to gradually lift stay-at-home restrictions and begin a phased return to normal, Wake Forest will continue our current operating status until further notice. Access to campus remains limited to essential employees and those students currently living on campus. Only deans and vice presidents have the authority to grant exceptions to this policy. Access to campus and specific campus facilities may be adjusted as public health conditions and government restrictions change, and the University’s ability to make necessary preparations allow. Updates will be posted to coronavirus.wfu.edu . As Governor Roy Cooper noted with the new Executive Order, a surge in positive COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations could require restrictions to be reinstated. Employers in North Carolina are still encouraged to allow employees to work remotely. We must continue to use caution and practice social distancing and other preventive measures. Thank you for doing your part to keep our community safe. Categories: Inside WFU , University Announcement CARES Act information for faculty and staff May 5, 2020 This message was emailed May 5 on behalf of Provost Rogan Kersh and Executive Vice President Hof Milam by Wake Forest Communications and External Relations: Dear Wake Forest faculty and staff, Over the past two months, so many have worked so hard to sustain and advance the mission of Wake Forest. Thanks also for your efforts to adhere to social distancing practices; the overall health of our community is something for which we can all be grateful. To date, very few cases of COVID-19 infections have been reported among faculty, staff and students. Protecting the health of our community took unprecedented yet necessary steps, and it will take the same degree of commitment to preserve the fiscal health of Wake Forest. As predicted, revenue losses have mounted, and we are actively managing our budget and finances accordingly. Significant steps have already been taken, including pausing hiring and constraining spending, and we are grateful to each of you for your compliance with those measures. We have now completed the process of issuing pro rata housing and dining refunds of nearly $10 million to our undergraduate students. We were grateful that more than $200,000 of those refunds was returned as a donation to the Wake Forest Crisis Response Fund . However, more steps are needed, and we remain vigilant in looking for ways we can improve our fiscal integrity. In our April 8 message about the financial situation facing the University, we noted that a team was researching the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the largest federal relief legislation in history, allocating more than $2 trillion to help people and organizations overcome the pandemic’s short-term financial impact. The CARES Act provides federal funding to help support student expenses related to the disruption of campus operations, and to offset specified revenue losses. Additionally, the CARES Act provides two programs of support that can help Wake Forest and our employees who, because of the pandemic, are unable to work remotely or who are working fewer hours: voluntary furloughs and payroll tax credits. Each of these programs is potentially beneficial to both the University as a whole and those individuals who qualify for them; employees of all types and job classifications are eligible. Based upon the nature of the work performed by employees within each unit, implementation options are available to each dean and vice president. Deans and vice presidents will share details about how voluntary furloughs and payroll tax credits will be implemented in each school or division, with consideration for the unique circumstances of each unit across our campus. Voluntary Furloughs The CARES Act provides eligible employees who, due to the nature of their work, are not able to work right now, $600 per week, supplementing the up to $350 per week unemployment benefit from the state of North Carolina. Our ...