COVID-19 Communications

To Our Students:

As you finalize preparations for returning to campus, we want to provide a few suggestions to help keep you healthy as classes begin…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

With the start of the fall semester rapidly approaching, we write with updates and reminders regarding the …

To Our Undergraduates:

With classes starting later this month, we want to update you regarding Case Western Reserve’s plans for managing COVID-19…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Late last week, Cuyahoga County’s data moved it into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) high…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Last week, Northeast Ohio residents joined the roughly one-third of people in the U.S. living in medium or high…

To Our Students:

The increase in COVID-19 cases that we wrote about Wednesday continued to accelerate through the weekend, with the total ultimately…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We write today to thank you for the empathy and understanding you have shown students who recently have had to miss classes or…

To Our Students:

While COVID-19 case numbers have ticked up gradually since spring break, over the past three days we have seen particularly significant…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We write today to share that University Health Services has seen a significant increase in student COVID-19 cases so far this…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

Now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended an additional COVID-19 vaccine booster…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

When we announced that most campus COVID-19 restrictions would ease effective March 21, we also committed to monitor…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

When we wrote you before spring break, campus and county indicators showed COVID-19 declining.

Nearly two…

To Our Undergraduates:

Welcome back! Whether you were here in Cleveland or traveling widely, we hope your break was relaxing and restorative. 

…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As spring break approaches and COVID-19 case totals continue to decline, we want to update you on our plans for…

To Our Undergraduates:

We are pleased to share that our dining halls will return to full-service offerings starting with breakfast tomorrow (Thursday,…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

When remote classes began Jan. 10, our campus had more than 280 positive cases. When we transitioned to in-person…

To Faculty and Others Teaching CWRU Students:

I first want to express my appreciation to all of you for adapting to remote teaching this month—and also…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As we prepare for the return to in-person classes Monday, we want to provide additional information regarding…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We are pleased to share that declining positivity rates on campus and in Cuyahoga County make it possible for…

To Our Undergraduates:

No one wanted your spring semester to have to start this way.

Sure, the delta variant put a slight damper on the…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students:

While some of you started attending classes and clinical experiences already, most of you begin tomorrow—…

To Our Undergraduates:

I hope that you had a good break and are getting ready for the new semester. I know that some of you are already engaged in the…

To Our Students:

With the start of the spring semester just five days away, we write to offer reminders and updates regarding Case Western Reserve’s…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We hope you had a restful and restorative winter break, and look forward to welcoming many of you back to campus tomorrow as…

To Our Faculty:

We write today to update you regarding how Case Western Reserve will adapt to omicron’s impact in the first weeks of the new year. Spring…

To Our Staff:

We write today to update you regarding how Case Western Reserve will adapt to omicron’s impact in the first weeks of the new year. 

To Our Undergraduates:

We write today to update you regarding how Case Western Reserve will adapt to omicron’s impact in the first weeks of the new year…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students:

We write today to update you regarding how Case Western Reserve will adapt to omicron’s impact in the first…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

While we are delighted that so many of you want to get your vaccine and/or booster doses today, your numbers have…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

The university’s announcement of a new COVID-19 booster vaccine requirement last week understandably prompted many…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We will provide additional details about the university’s booster requirement shortly, but first want to update…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As of last night, Case Western Reserve’s COVID-19 case count nearly doubled last week’s total.

Cuyahoga…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We have received several questions regarding whether this morning's email canceling all campus social gatherings…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We had hoped to finish this semester in as normal as manner as possible given COVID-19, but the test results we’ve…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As the world experiences a second December with COVID-19 still a major concern, preventive measures are important…

To Our Students:

We write today to urge you to get a COVID-19 booster before the semester ends.

With case counts climbing precipitously across…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We write today to urge you to get a COVID-19 booster before winter break begins.

With case counts climbing…

To Our Undergraduates:

As we wrote you before Thanksgiving—and reminded you Sunday—those students living on campus MUST take a COVID-19 test this week.…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

As we experience a second holiday season with COVID-19 still in the headlines, the pandemic’s toll on mental health only…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Yet again, COVID-19 has upended pandemic expectations. 

After U.S. air travel Wednesday hit its highest…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

This week’s Thanksgiving holiday signals the start of seasonal activities where colleagues take time to celebrate the semester’…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

With Thanksgiving break just nine days away, we want to update you regarding campus options for COVID-19 testing…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We wanted to send a quick reminder that online trainings start today for those who hope to participate in the university’s new …

To Our Faculty and Staff:

I am pleased to announce that Case Western Reserve has adopted a formal Staff Hybrid Work policy, effective Monday, Jan. 10,…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We are pleased to announce that Case Western Reserve again will be offering to administer doses of Pfizer’s COVID-…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We are pleased to share that the university is able to offer a second vaccination session for children ages 5 to…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Now that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky has endorsed giving Pfizer’s…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We regret the difficulties some of you may have had in scheduling children's Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations today,…

To Our Students:

We write today first to thank you: Over the past month you have managed to keep your weekly COVID-19 case counts in the single digits—…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Now that federal officials have endorsed booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from Johnson & Johnson,…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Although we have barely reached the midpoint of the fall semester, it is already time to begin thinking about…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We are pleased to announce that eligible faculty, staff and students will be able to receive booster doses of…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Even as COVID-19 cases climb across Ohio and our own county, you have powerfully demonstrated the power of…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

When we wrote you last month regarding proposals for modified work arrangements, we noted that these pilot efforts would help…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As you may have seen already on the COVID-19 dashboard updated yesterday, the university’s positivity rate for…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

As we near the end of our first week of classes, we are ever more grateful for all that you are doing for our students, and our…

To our students,

I hope the start of your semester has gone smoothly and you’re safely enjoying your…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Today marks the first time since March 6, 2020, that we have completed a full week of all in-person classes at…

To Our Staff:

I hope you are as excited as I am to have so many faculty, staff and students back on campus today. After such a long stretch of staying…

To Our Students:

With classes commencing today and varsity athletic competitions starting Wednesday, I want to provide guidance regarding another…

To Our Faculty:

I hope you are as excited as I am to see so many students back on campus today. After such a long stretch of staying apart and engaging…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As you finalize preparations for the start of the fall semester Monday, we want to offer an overview of the…

To our students,

I am thrilled to welcome you to the start of a new academic year—and, hopefully, the return to more “normal” campus life, filled with in…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

More than 1,650 students arrived on campus this weekend, and every one of them received a COVID-19 test before…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We write today to announce that all faculty, staff, students, and visitors to campus must wear masks indoors…

To Case Western Reserve Faculty and Staff:

With fewer than three weeks until first-year students arrive in residence halls, the need to grow staff…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students:

Thank you for all that you have done to help protect the Case Western Reserve community from COVID-19…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We write with a reminder that 5 p.m. today (Friday, July 23) is the deadline to comply with the university’s…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

In yesterday’s message we emphasized some of the consequences of…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We first want to thank the more than 860 of you who have submitted pictures of your vaccination cards since…

To Our Undergraduates:

We write today to remind you that requests for quarantine housing must be submitted by 5 p.m. TODAY (Friday, July 16).

As …

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We deeply appreciate the thousands of you who have taken the time to verify your vaccination status over the past…

To Our Undergraduate Students:

As we noted in our earlier communication to incoming first-year and transfer students, we are grateful to all of you who…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We are delighted to share that nearly 1,100 of you submitted photos of your vaccination cards during the past week…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

In light of the university’s Juneteenth closure Friday, we have decided to extend last week’s deadline for vaccine…

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to you today in my capacity as chair of the Staff Advisory Council. As you know, university leaders are deep in planning…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As of today, more than 60 percent of you have verified your vaccination status through our secure health record…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We’ll be naming last week’s vaccine verification winners later this afternoon, but we did not want to wait to…

To Our Students:

With last week’s card uploads, we’re now able to verify that 60 percent of the campus community is fully vaccinated. 

So first,…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

With last week’s card uploads, we’re now able to verify that 60 percent of the campus community is fully vaccinated. 

…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Just a quick reminder of today’s 5 p.m. deadline to upload pictures of your COVID-19 vaccination cards to have a chance to have…

To Our Students:

Just a quick reminder of today’s 5 p.m. deadline to upload pictures of your COVID-19 vaccination cards to have a chance to have your…

To Our Students:

I am delighted to announce the winners of last week’s vaccine verification drawing, but first must thank all of those who have uploaded…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

I am delighted to announce the winners of last week’s vaccine verification drawing, but first must thank all of those who have…

To Our Students:

Just a quick reminder of today’s 5 p.m. deadline to upload pictures of your vaccination cards to have a chance to have your choice of a…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Just a quick reminder of today’s 5 p.m. deadline to upload pictures of your vaccination cards to have a chance to have your…

To Our Faculty and Staff,

We write today to update you regarding restoration of Retirement Plan A employer contributions for the first six months of this…

To Our Students:

The more of you who are vaccinated, the safer we all will be.

Over the past month, just over 40 percent of you have uploaded…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

The more of you who are vaccinated, the safer we all will be.

Over the past month, a bit more than half of you have…

To Our Returning Undergraduates:

We want to thank the nearly 2,100 of you who already have uploaded your vaccine cards to the university’s health record…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We first want to thank the nearly 2,500 of you who already have uploaded your vaccine cards to the university’s health record…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Earlier this month we asked you to upload pictures of your vaccination cards to help inform university planning for this summer…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students:

Earlier this month, we asked all members of the campus community to upload pictures of their vaccination cards…

To Our Returning Undergraduates:

Congratulations on the end of exams and start of your summers.

Before you put this semester completely in your…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

In another sign of the progress that COVID-19 vaccines have made possible, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…

To Our Faculty and Staff,

Earlier this spring, we shared that Case Western Reserve will resume annual salary increases and Retirement Plan A…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Throughout this pandemic, our top university priority has been the health and safety of our campus community. 

Now that…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Just over two months ago we announced our aspirations for a Fall 2021 semester far closer to its pre-pandemic…

To Our Undergraduates:

Throughout this pandemic, our top university priority has been the health and safety of our campus community.

Now that…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

After reviewing federal health officials’ recommendation Friday to lift the pause of administration of the Johnson…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

This time last year, Case Western Reserve was just beginning to distribute masks to students on campus.

Today, we’re in…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Early last month, we announced plans for a fall semester with full residential offerings and in-person classes and activities—…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We write to share that those of you with dependent care flexible savings accounts (FSA) will be able to increase your pre-tax…

To Our Students,

We are pleased to share that you are among the students eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine this week.

(If you already have…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

As we have promoted vaccination opportunities in recent days, several of you have asked whether your immediate family members—…

To Our Students:

We write today to say: We hear you.

You are exhausted and stressed, weary of prevention protocols and beyond eager for normalcy…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

The past 12 months have taken a tremendous toll on our entire campus. 

From massive disruption of nearly every aspect…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We write today with appreciation—and a plea.

Last week, we passed the halfway point of the spring semester…

To Our Graduating Students:

After reviewing your responses to last week’s commencement survey and examining potential options, we are pleased to share…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Like many of you, we are overjoyed by the news that all Ohio residents 16 and older will be eligible for COVID-19…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As Interim President Cowen and I wrote last week, Case Western Reserve University plans for the resumption of in-…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We are delighted to announce today that the City of Cleveland will provide additional COVID-19 vaccines for our…

To Our Undergraduates:

As Interim President Scott Cowen and Provost Ben Vinson wrote Tuesday, Case Western Reserve is planning for a full return to…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We are pleased to announce today that we are partnering with Cleveland health officials to begin distributing…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Nearly a year after COVID-19 arrived in Ohio, we have started to see real signs of hope.

The state’s daily…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

We write today with updates regarding masks, travel and vaccines—as well as an expression of appreciation to everyone…

To Our Students:

The first week of the spring semester went particularly well when it comes to the pandemic, with COVID-19 testing results to date…

To Our Undergraduates:

Ten weeks after taking the fall’s last in-person classes, those on campus today return to lecture halls and labs, fitness…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Effectively immediately, the university has closed Wyant Athletic and Wellness Center. Its earliest re-opening…

To All Faculty Teaching Undergraduate Courses during the February-May Portion of Spring 2021:

With the regular portion of the spring semester set to…

To Our Undergraduates:

We are now 11 days from the start of the spring semester. More than 2,000 of you will be moving into university housing starting…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We write today to note that our work-from-home guidance ends this Saturday, Jan. 23, which means that the university will…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

Given that tomorrow (Monday, Jan. 18) is a university holiday for the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day,…

To Our Students:

As the first full week of January Term winds down, I want to remind you that you must complete the spring semester COVID-19…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

In the nearly two weeks since we last wrote to you about vaccines, our efforts to secure doses have involved dozens…

To Our Students:

Juggling the demands of classes and other responsibilities can be challenging in a typical academic year—and COVID-19 has made the task…

To the Students of Case Western Reserve:

Though the January term has just begun, we’re already looking ahead to the start of spring semester on Feb. 1.…

To Our Faculty, Staff, and Students:

We write today to share that we are extending the university’s work-from-home guidance through Saturday, Jan. 23, in…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

We hope that all of you enjoyed a safe, healthy and restorative winter break and look forward to a new semester where…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

We write today to update you regarding the university’s efforts to secure access to COVID-19 vaccinations for…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students:

We first want to express our gratitude to each of you for all that you did to help Case Western Reserve reach…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

As you prepare for a much-needed respite starting Thursday, we wanted to update your regarding plans for campus operations…

To Our Undergraduates:

Congratulations on completing a fall semester unlike any we have ever experienced at Case Western Reserve. Whether you…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Nine days ago, we began a temporary period of asking everyone who could work from home to do so—and requiring those who did…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We write today regarding the university’s approach to travel-related quarantines amid record levels of COVID-19 cases…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Today we write to provide additional information regarding Case Western Reserve’s response to last week’s stay-at-home advisory…

To Our Students:

As we advised faculty and staff last week, Monday (Nov. 30) marks the start of a nearly three-week period when we ask all employees who…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

With COVID-19 case counts breaking records in our region, yesterday’s stay-at-home advisory from the city and county provides a…

To Our Undergraduates:

As many of you begin your last week of in-person classes, we want to provide some key reminders for the coming days.

COVID…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students:

As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches next week, we wanted to make sure you are aware of preventive health…

To Our Faculty:

As you may have seen on our COVID dashboard, CWRU is still showing only a 2% positivity rate for COVID-19 infections (while some campuses…

To Our Students:

As we are all witnessing, the COVID-19 surge is getting worse every day. 

The nation is setting new case and hospitalization…

To Our Students:

As you all know, the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 around the country, including in Ohio and Cuyahoga County, has…

To Our Undergraduates:

As Case Western Reserve approaches the end of in-person classes, COVID-19 case counts are setting new records across Ohio and…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

As President Cowen and Provost Vinson wrote Thursday, University Health Services (UHS) is expanding its COVID-19 surveillance…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Despite reports of rapidly climbing COVID-19 cases within Cuyahoga County and around the country, Case Western Reserve has not…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We are pleased to announce that the university will significantly expand its COVID-19 testing program through a…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

This weekend, Ohio posted its highest-ever one-day count of new COVID-19 cases, while national news outlets emphasized that the…

To Our Undergraduates Now Living on Campus:

As with many procedures during the pandemic, our practices for end-of-semester move-out and winter break…

To Our Students:

The data is undeniable.

Cuyahoga County’s COVID-19 numbers last week lifted us to red status for the first time in two months…

To Our Students:

We first want to thank those of you living on or near campus for your outstanding efforts to protect one another by following university…

To Our Undergraduates:

We write first to remind you that the deadline to indicate whether or not you would like to live in campus housing is 8 p.m. today…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We write today for two reasons: 

First, we want to thank the 2,372 of you who already have received your…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

I write today regarding implementing an interim measure for the Spring 2021 semester designed to address the academic…

Note: Answers to questions 1 and 6 have been updated to reflect a clarifying message from University Financial Aid.

To Our Undergraduates:

We…

To Our Undergraduates:

In planning the spring 2021 academic calendar, we also began assessing our approach to campus housing for the upcoming semester.…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

We write today with updates regarding our plans for the spring semester—specifically, its calendar.  

First,…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students:

We write today regarding charges for those of you learning off campus and living outside of Cuyahoga County…

To Our Students:

Today marks the end of our first week of surveillance testing for students living and/or learning on campus. We want to thank the…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As part of ongoing efforts to reduce COVID-19 risks on campus, University Health and Counseling Services (UHCS) is…

To Our Students:

For those of you who are living and/or learning on campus this semester, thank you for your patience and cooperation with our testing…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We first want to express our profound gratitude to all of you for the exceptional efforts involved in launching the fall…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

I am pleased to share updates regarding two of the three child care initiatives the university announced last week.

The…

To Our Undergraduates, Graduate Students, and Postdoctoral Researchers and Fellows:

I am pleased to share updates regarding two of the three child care…

To Our Undergraduates:

We write today regarding university charges for those students learning entirely online this fall. 

After extensive…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

As President Snyder wrote Sunday evening, the university is launching a weekly COVID-19 dashboard today. This page…

This message is being sent to all undergraduates so everyone is aware of protocols, even though they may not be affected by them this semester. 

To Our…

This fall, concerns about COVID-19 far outpace typical ones about tough professors or new syllabi’s…

To Our Undergraduates:

Yesterday we updated you regarding the start of COVID-19 testing for students living off campus but taking at least one course on…

Dear Case Western Reserve University Students,

As many of you may have read, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Monday that it…

To Undergraduates Living Off-Campus:

We are pleased to share that our site on Freiberger Field (immediately north of Kelvin Smith Library) will begin…

To Our Students:

With less than a week to go before the start of the fall semester, we want to update you regarding the university’s COVID-19 testing to…

To Our Students:

Earlier today, you received information about an online reorientation training geared at providing a greater understanding of campus…

To Our Undergraduate Students: 

I hope that you remain safe and healthy and look forward to beginning fall semester 2020. Throughout the spring and…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students:

I hope that you remain safe and healthy and look forward to beginning fall semester 2020. Throughout the…

To Our Undergraduates:

We write today to share deeply disappointing news: The accelerating spread of COVID-19 requires that Case Western Reserve reduce…

To All Undergraduates,

Below is an email sent earlier today to students living in the nine states cited in Ohio’s travel advisory, issued July 22 (if you…

To Our Staff:

I hope you and your families are doing as well as possible in these challenging times. I deeply appreciate your efforts on behalf of Case…

To Our Undergraduates:

As you may be aware, this week Gov. Mike DeWine issued a travel advisory for people coming into Ohio from states with positive…

To Our Undergraduates:

As the start of the fall semester approaches, we ask for your assistance in helping us address your academic and co-curricular…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

As the university’s return-to-campus process continues, we have received some common inquiries regarding the university’s…

To Our Undergraduates:

I write today to update you regarding course teaching modes and registration timelines. 

As the president and I explained…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students Who Register through the Student Information System (SIS):

I write today to update you regarding course…

To Our Faculty:

I need to start with a thank you for all that you are doing to help us navigate and develop a new approach to fall semester. It has been…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

I am overjoyed to share that the federal government today agreed to rescind the July 6 guidance indicating that…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

The federal announcement Monday that international students taking only online courses could imperil their visa…

NOTE: School and college deans will be communicating directly with graduate/professional students.

To Our Undergraduates:

We write today to…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

I am delighted to share that the Health Education Campus (HEC) will be fully restored to academic use before the…

To Our Staff:

As we continue to assess COVID-19’s financial implications for Case Western Reserve, we also see media reports about how the pandemic is…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Just before Memorial Day, we wrote regarding the process of preparing for a fall semester with students and classes back on…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

We write today to share that the university’s Board of Trustees has approved a modified academic calendar for the…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

As we approach the beginning of university’s fiscal year next month, we want to update you regarding steps Case Western Reserve…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

This week, our planning for the 2020-2021 academic year began to accelerate, with inaugural meetings of the two groups…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

I hope that you and your loved ones are healthy, well and very much enjoying this holiday weekend. You all more than deserve…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We approach this holiday weekend with so many questions.

Will attending Memorial Day festivities risk infection? Will…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Tomorrow begins the first official phase of staff returning to campus after the university began remote operations. We say “…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We are pleased to share that all campus permit holders will receive a parking credit for May, with the amount appearing in your…

We are sharing this message with all Case Western Reserve students so you are aware of how you can support your peers as they graduate this weekend.

To…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

At last, the semester is done.  

And normally, Sunday’s Commencement would mark the end of the academic year…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Just over two months ago, Cuyahoga County confirmed its first cases of COVID-19. The following day we announced our transition…

To Our Faculty:

As the end of the semester approaches, I want to thank you for all that you have accomplished in circumstances no one could have foreseen…

To All Undergraduates:

As I wrote last week, the Faculty Senate extended the period of time for undergraduates to decide whether to choose letter grades…

To Our Undergraduates:

With Ohio planning to begin a gradual re-opening starting today (May 1), we have begun a limited application process for those who…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Last night’s updated state order expanding the kinds of entities that can operate includes valuable guidance as we prepare for…

To the Students, Faculty and Staff of Case Western Reserve:

As final exams begin, our remote learning environment brings a new challenge: How do we…

To Our Undergraduates with Belongings in Residence Halls:

With Ohio beginning to lift its stay-at-home order starting Friday, we are opening a…

To All Undergraduates:

At its meeting today, the Faculty Senate voted to extend the period of time for undergraduates to decide whether to choose letter…

To Our Undergraduates, Faculty and Staff:

As the end of the spring semester draws near, we want to update you on Case Western Reserve’s deliberations for…

To All Undergraduates:

You may have heard that the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Education (FSCUE) this week endorsed a proposal to extend…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Even before Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced last week that the state would start a “phased-in reopening” May 1, we have been…

To Our Graduate and Professional Students:

Your programs follow several different schedules, from year-round studies to 16-week semesters to a range of…

To Our Faculty:

As you complete your fifth week of fully online instruction I hope that you are settling into a rhythm and adjusting to the “new normal…

To Our Undergraduates:

Between the housing lottery and fall course registration, many of you may be thinking about the next academic year.

So are…

To Our Research Community,

I hope this message finds you and your loved ones healthy and safe.

I write today to provide updated guidance about…

To All Undergraduates:

I hope that you and your families are all staying healthy and that you have been able to remain engaged both in your courses and…

To Our Undergraduates:

The end of this semester’s classes is just nine days away.

Even though spring break feels as though it was months ago, it’…

To Our Graduate and Professional School Students:

For many of you, the end of the semester is six to nine days away.

For others, it is soon to…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Yet again, you have demonstrated extraordinary compassion for our students. After we sent Friday’s email about parking credits—…

To Our Undergraduates:

We know these are difficult times.

Not only because you are separated from one another. Or that you have to stare at a…

To Our Graduate and Professional School Students:

It’s not easy being you.

Unlike our undergraduates, you lack a university-wide academic…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We write today regarding campus parking charges during this period of remote work and education. We are pleased to inform you…

To Our Students:

As you begin your fourth week of remote learning, we want to update you regarding several recent developments. First, though, we want to…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

On this date a month ago, Ohio reported its first confirmed case of COVID-19. The following day, we announced our transition to…

To Our Students:

Please accept our apologies.

We thought we had been clear when we opened yesterday’s message about masks with “To Our Students…

To Our Faculty, Staff, and Students:

When a Jan. 27 executive order upended all sense of normalcy for our international community four years ago, Case…

NOTE: This version includes a correction, noting the "mask bags" can be picked up Tuesday, April 7.

To Our Students Living on Campus:

Late Friday…

To the Case Western Reserve community:

Another vulnerability has been found in Zoom, which allows uninvited guests to scan Zoom for open meetings, even…

To Our Faculty and Staff Working on Campus:

Late Friday, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued new guidance regarding masks—specifically, that the…

To Our Students:

I write today to let you know that we have made the difficult decision to move all summer courses to remote delivery. As much as we want…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

We write today to request your assistance in our efforts to protect and support our community.

As COVID-19…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

In light of continuing uncertainty regarding when the COVID-19 crisis will begin to abate, the university has made the…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

The Health Education Campus (HEC) stands today because of the power of partnership.

First envisioned as a…

To Our Students with Belongings on Campus:

We have completed collection of small, valuable and/or urgently needed items in Kusch that students requested…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of activity, adaptation, and anxious anticipation.

You have moved…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

As we finish the second week of fully remote teaching, we first want to express our profound appreciation to everyone involved…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Two weeks ago, we communicated with you regarding individual responsibilities and university policies during the course of this…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

The news is full of stories about providers facing shortages of masks, gloves and other protective gear—even as they work…

To Our Undergraduates:

As you approach the end of your first full week of remote learning, we wanted to provide several updates and reminders relating to…

To: Faculty of Case Western Reserve University
From: Ben Vinson III, Provost and Executive Vice President
Date: March 24, 2020
Re: Extension of…

To Our Students Living in Campus Housing:

As part of efforts to protect the health and safety of the university community, Case Western Reserve has taken…

To Our Research Community:

This afternoon, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton issued a statewide “stay-at-home” order that takes effect at …

To Our Faculty and Staff:

This afternoon, Ohio’s leaders announced a statewide “stay-at-home” order that has understandably prompted questions about its…

Dear University Researchers,

I know you are receiving many messages from the university at this time. I’m writing today to affirm the importance of your…

To Our Faculty:

Thank you.

In a time of tremendous uncertainty, you responded with tremendous dedication to our students—and to one another.…

To Our Undergraduates:

We hope your first day of remote learning went well, and that you are beginning to adjust to the many changes you have needed to…

Dear Deans, Program Directors, Chairs, and Faculty:

I would like to take this moment to clarify an issue about working remotely from the faculty…

To Our Undergraduates:

Just over seven weeks ago, we wrote you about a new virus strain that had led to two cases in the U.S.

Today that number…

To the CWRU Research Community:

I am writing to provide additional guidance on the continuity of research during the COVID-19 outbreak. 

All…

To Our Faculty and Staff Working on Campus:

We write to make you aware of two changes that take effect tomorrow, Wednesday, March 18:

To Our Faculty and Staff:

“Everyone is experiencing some form of grief.”

The comment, said during this morning’s COVID-19 leadership team meeting…

To Our Students:

We first want to reiterate our deep regret that the COVID-19 outbreak has required that you depart campus well before the end of the…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

As noted in previous messages from the president and provost, Case Western Reserve is working to protect the health of the…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

As we begin this unprecedented experience in Case Western Reserve’s history, we first want to extend our best wishes…

To Case Western Reserve faculty, instructors and staff who assist in the delivery of education:

I first need to extend my deep gratitude to our…

To Our Students:

Below is information that the Office of Undergraduate Studies has provided to assist you during this transition.

Provost Ben…

To Our Students:

The rest of this semester is not what anyone at Case Western Reserve wanted for you.

In a normal year, these weeks after break…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

Today we conclude a week unlike any other in recent memory.

Starting with Monday’s news of three confirmed COVID-19…

To Our Residential Students:

In light of the university’s move to remote learning for the remainder of the semester, we want to provide additional…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

We write today to share that we have made the difficult decision to continue remote education for the rest of the…

Dear CWRU Researchers and Colleagues:

As the recent message from President Snyder and Provost Vinson mentioned, the university is evaluating the options…

To Students Who Wish to Live on Campus:

We regret to inform you that recent developments require that the university move from a registration process to…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students Traveling Abroad (Or Planning to Do So Soon):

We want to make sure our entire campus community is aware of three major…

This message also was sent to Case Western Reserve faculty.

To Our Students:

We deeply regret the disruption that COVID-19 developments have…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

We recognize that Tuesday’s announcements represent major disruptions for all of you, and deeply appreciate the steps you have…

To Our Faculty, Staff and Students:

We notified you yesterday that Cuyahoga County now has three confirmed cases of COVID-19. As of this morning,…

To Our Students:

As many of you may be aware, Ohio’s governor announced three confirmed cases of COVID-19, all of them in Cuyahoga County (which includes…

To Our Faculty and Staff:

This afternoon, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine reported that the state has three confirmed cases of COVID-19, all of whom are Cuyahoga…

To Case Western Reserve Faculty, Instructors, and Staff who assist in the delivery of education:

While I know many of you are off-campus during spring…

To Case Western Reserve Faculty and Staff:

Given the common themes among some of your questions regarding yesterday’s message, we wanted to send all of…

To Parents and Guardians of Case Western Reserve Students:

We apologize that the message you received this morning has increased rather than alleviated…

To Case Western Reserve Students:

Because of the common themes and time-sensitivity of some of your questions, we are sending this broad message now…

To CWRU Students in Our Dental, Nursing and Medical Schools:

Among the many issues that the COVID-19 outbreak raises is one that directly affects many of…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

In light of continuing COVID-19-related developments in the U.S., we are now requesting that all faculty, staff…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We write to update you regarding additional developments and planning relating to COVID-19 (novel coronavirus).…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

With spring break starting next week, many of you (and, in the case of some students, your parents) have contacted…

To Parents and Guardians of Our Undergraduates:

We realize that you just received an email from us Friday, but the pace of developments involving COVID-…

To Parents and Guardians of Our Undergraduates:

In the wake of growing fears about the widening spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we want to update…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We write today to update you regarding steps the university is taking in response to recent developments regarding…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

We write today to reiterate the importance of leaving China as soon as possible and to provide guidance regarding…

To the Case Western Reserve Community:

This afternoon, the federal government declared the novel coronavirus a public health emergency for the U.S.…

To the Staff of Case Western Reserve:

In light of recent federal guidance regarding travel to China, we urge you to reconsider trips there while the…

To the Faculty of Case Western Reserve:

In light of recent federal guidance regarding travel to China, we urge you to reconsider trips there while the…

To the Faculty and Staff of Case Western Reserve:

We write to assure the campus community that university officials are monitoring developments involving…

To the Students of Case Western Reserve University:

We are following up on Friday’s email in light of ongoing developments involving the novel…

To the Students of Case Western Reserve University:

We write today regarding recent news reports about a new strain of virus that originated in Wuhan,…