With recruitment events held online, presidents and recruitment chairs are struggling with learning new technology, generating excitement about Greek life, and conveying safety guidelines from the ISC and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life to members and potential new members.
While the University would prefer people gathering outside to inside, student behavior sometimes does not align with administrative expectations.
According to the dashboard, there were an average of seven cases per day last week, including the newly reported positive test results from the weekend.
The report is mandated by the Clery Act, a federal law that requires transparency in relation to crime statistics on college campuses.
Normally all first-years are required to live in on-Grounds residences, but this semester 74 percent of the first-year class chose to live on Grounds, with others choosing to stay at home or take a gap year given the unusual circumstances.
Since Aug. 17, 1,019 members of the University community have tested positive for COVID-19.
Amendment One establishes a sixteen-person panel, made up of eight legislators and eight non-legislators, that would draw electoral maps.
20 of the University’s 27 first-year dormitories and all Lawn residents have undergone testing.
University Spokesperson Wes Hester confirmed in an email statement that employees of the residences will also have the opportunity to be tested.
Voter registration in Virginia ends Tuesday, although Virginia’s voter registration website went down until the early afternoon for more than five and a half hours due to a cut cable.
The University’s other restrictions on mask-wearing, social distancing and travel, which were extended for an additional two weeks last Tuesday, will remain in place for at least another week.
557 saliva screening tests were administered between Oct. 1 and Oct. 8. Out of those tests, 537 were negative, 12 positive, four inconclusive and four were categorized as invalid.
Monday’s update said that there were only 99 active cases in the University community, down from the 219 reported last Thursday.
The decreasing daily average comes on the heels of the University’s Sept. 23 implementation of strict COVID-19 guidelines which mandate mask-wearing, restrict travel to and from Charlottesville and prohibit gatherings larger than five.
The announcement comes less than a week before the deadline to drop a class, and students must decide to opt into the CR/GC/NC system about a month before final exams.
The percentage of quarantine rooms filled by students has increased since Monday to 21 percent. Conversely, the isolation rooms occupancy has dropped to eight percent.
The University’s Faculty Senate voted Monday on whether it would advance discussion of an application-based CR/NC/NGCC grading system for the fall semester to a discussion and vote at its Oct. 20 full Senate meeting.
The University issued refunds throughout the end of September to on-Grounds students for housing and all-access dining plans, as well as to those who chose to stay home for the fall semester.
Despite the unusual circumstances, the Class of 2024 is still 40 students over the University’s enrollment target of 3,750.
Last week, Fresh Food Company at Newcomb Hall stopped staffing soft drink fountains after previously using plexiglass and stationing employees to fill cups for students.
