Updates related to COVID-19
Dear University of Mary Washington Community, Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that forced students, faculty, and most staff off campus back in March. Your efforts during very trying circumstances made it possible for our students to successfully complete the 2019-2020 academic year. Since then, dozens of […]
Dear Students, With the deadline for selecting the alternate grading scale approaching, several of you have inquired about whether you could petition for a change after today (Friday, April 24 — the last day of classes). As faculty begin entering final grades, the Registrar’s Office will allow you to view those grade before they appear […]
To the campus community: Thank you for working and facing forward with positivity, while uncertainty swirls around us. There are more questions than clear-cut answers for most of us. When will social distancing restrictions lift? Will there be another wave of COVID-19? Will classes start on time this fall? As one who takes a measured […]
Dear members of the Class of 2020: Our hearts and good wishes go out to you as you finish your final UMW semester. We know this is not the spring you imagined, but we want to make that up to you with a special series of events planned for October. As I promised, we intend […]
To the campus community: As noted earlier, guidance from the state and from public health officials – including the Governor’s stay-at-home order into June – has meant that summer school instruction will take place remotely, and we are now in the process of letting incoming students know that orientation will be virtual as well. In addition, all […]
Dear UMW Parents, Family Members, and Guardians, Hello from Mary Washington! I wanted to share with you the information sent to residential students this afternoon about our revised process to retrieve belongings (see below). As the message notes, we consulted and received guidelines from state public health officials to allow for individual students to retrieve […]
Dear residential students, As promised, I am following up with you about next steps with regard to belongings retrieval from the residence halls. Please read this email in its entirety before clicking on any links. We have been consulting with UMW’s Public Safety and Emergency Management team and state public health officials to construct a […]
Dear Students, We are pleased to share with you an important update regarding the Spring 2020 alternative grading scale option that has been developed in response to COVID-19. Courses in which you elect to be graded according to the alternative grading scale will not factor in to the Spring semester GPA and involves the following […]
We are writing to inform you that the University learned this morning of a second member of our Lee Hall staff with a confirmed case of COVID-19. The source of the infection is unknown. Appropriate public health protocols have been followed. The University has been in contact with the Virginia Department of Health, which has the responsibility of tracing potential exposures based […]
Watch the first in a series of live sessions with President Paino and other campus leaders, offering the chance to ask questions and engage with the campus community. Aired on April 2nd at 3:30 p.m. Eastern.