What to Contribute
We are looking for materials that document your day-to-day experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. This will help us preserve and share what life was like in our community during this unique time. If we don't capture it now, it'll be a lot harder in the future!
You can submit Word documents, PDFs, digital photos, video files, or audio files. If you have a physical object you would like to share, take a photo or scan the item. Example submissions are listed below.
General
- Journal or diary entries
- Photographs showing neighbors standing 6-feet apart or bare shelves at the grocery store
- A description of your schedule or routine during quarantine/shelter-in-place
- Descriptions or samples of hobbies to pass the time (puzzles and games with family, trivia with friends over Google Hangout, learning to knit or paint, gardening, etc.)
- What it's like to work at an essential business or organization (grocery store, hospital, pharmacy)
- The impact of losing a job
- Taking care of family, friends, or neighbors
- Changes made in hygiene or cleaning practices
- Was anyone you know, or yourself, affected by the virus?
Students
- Description of how you felt, photos or videos, from moving off-campus
- What it's like to be one of the few remaining students on-campus
- Reactions to campus events being canceled or delayed (ex: graduation, spring sports season, theater or musical performances, trips)
- Adjusting to virtual courses
Faculty
- Redesigning courses for remote delivery
- Communicating with students
- Reactions to campus events being canceled or delayed
- Working from home - Did you have a home office set up already or take over the dining room table, technology set up issues, homeschooling children while trying to work, etc.
Staff
- Working on-campus after most employees and students were gone
- Working from home - Did you have a home office set up already or take over the dining room table, technology set up issues, homeschooling children while trying to work, etc.
- Reactions to campus events being canceled or delayed
- Did elements of your job change because you couldn't work on-campus?
Administrators
- What was it like to make decisions that impacted the entire campus?
- Communicating with faculty, staff, students, parents, and alumni