Coronavirus Update: CSI exposure
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From: President
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:28 PM
To: FacultyStaffBroadcast; StudentBroadcast
Subject: Coronavirus Update
Dear CS! Community:
| write to advise you that a member of our campus community has tested positive
for the coronavirus. The student was last on campus on March 5, was
asymptomatic at the time, and still does not present any symptoms. Our thoughts
are with her and her family during this time.
NYS health officials who are experts on communicable diseases have advised us
that because she just tested positive, has not been on campus for 8 days and did
not have any symptoms at the time, that the case does not pose a risk to the CSI
community.
However, out of an abundance of caution, we have notified the instructors and
other students in her classes and we will do a thorough clean over the weekend of
the areas on campus where the student was present.
Your health and safety are our number one priority. Everyone can do their part to
help minimize the potential impact of this emerging public health threat.
Continue to wash your hands regularly and whenever possible maintain social
distancing. Please continue to visit the College’s website, which we
routinely update with the latest information and links.
As a reminder, if you feel sick, please contact your health care provider. If you
don’t have a health care provider, please call 311. Hospital staff cannot ask your
immigration status or deny you care based on your ability to pay.
We are continuously monitoring this situation and will take additional actions to
protect the health and safety of our campus community as necessary.
Sincerely,
William J. Fritz
President
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:28 PM
To: FacultyStaffBroadcast; StudentBroadcast
Subject: Coronavirus Update
Dear CS! Community:
| write to advise you that a member of our campus community has tested positive
for the coronavirus. The student was last on campus on March 5, was
asymptomatic at the time, and still does not present any symptoms. Our thoughts
are with her and her family during this time.
NYS health officials who are experts on communicable diseases have advised us
that because she just tested positive, has not been on campus for 8 days and did
not have any symptoms at the time, that the case does not pose a risk to the CSI
community.
However, out of an abundance of caution, we have notified the instructors and
other students in her classes and we will do a thorough clean over the weekend of
the areas on campus where the student was present.
Your health and safety are our number one priority. Everyone can do their part to
help minimize the potential impact of this emerging public health threat.
Continue to wash your hands regularly and whenever possible maintain social
distancing. Please continue to visit the College’s website, which we
routinely update with the latest information and links.
As a reminder, if you feel sick, please contact your health care provider. If you
don’t have a health care provider, please call 311. Hospital staff cannot ask your
immigration status or deny you care based on your ability to pay.
We are continuously monitoring this situation and will take additional actions to
protect the health and safety of our campus community as necessary.
Sincerely,
William J. Fritz
President
Title
Coronavirus Update: CSI exposure
Description
Staten Island, often considered NYC's "forgotten borough," the lesser child of the more famous boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, was not able to avoid the pandemic. CSI President William J. Fritz sent this email on March 13, 2020, addressing the first positive case of Covid-19 in the CSI community. Despite the disparate geographies and perceived isolation of CUNY's 25 campuses across the city, the spread of COVID-19 was powerful enough in the end to register in every borough and every CUNY campus, reminding us all of the sheer reach and ubiquity of the disease.
This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Prof. Matthew K. Gold's Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, the project wanted to document the moment of crisis response by taking a critical approach to educational technology.
This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Prof. Matthew K. Gold's Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, the project wanted to document the moment of crisis response by taking a critical approach to educational technology.
Creator
CSI President's Office
Date
March 13, 2020
Language
English
Publisher
College of Staten Island
Rights
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Source
CUNY Distance Learning Archive
Original Format
Correspondence
CSI President’s Office. Letter. “Coronavirus Update: CSI Exposure.”, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1815