Campus Dining
Campus dining in the fall has been carefully planned to provide a variety of high-quality food options and locations while also enabling appropriate physical distancing. Dining will include options at Welles, the Richardson Room and the Book Club (in the library). We will also add a venue to pick up freshly prepared items in Dewing Hall. This will provide four locations for dining, and will enable as much distancing as possible.
- Welles Dining Hall will be able to accommodate sit-down dining at a reduced capacity that is physically distant. A variety of options will be available there, including traditional “home line” food, a daily vegan entree, salads, and desserts, to name a few. The food will be freshly prepared and packaged to go.As in the past, the Richardson Room will include freshly prepared and packaged salads and other items, as well as a limited offering of sandwiches to go.
- We are happy to share that we will be able to offer a limited commuter plan to off-campus students, and will provide more details in the coming weeks.
- Dining will be quite different in the fall given our collective responsibility to maintain physical distance and avoid waiting in lines and queuing. We will all be responsible for abiding by campus expectations related to physical distance, wearing masks, and hand hygiene at every dining venue. Dining, with appropriate distance, will work best when we use all four venues and when we move quickly through them.
Modification of Credit/No Credit Policy
The Kalamazoo College faculty have voted to make modifications to the Credit/No Credit policy for fall term 2020. The changes to the currently published catalog policy are highlighted in bold below. The unbolded information remains unchanged from the published policy.
Credit/No Credit Policy
All students may elect to take at most TWO letter-graded courses on campus as CR/NC (Credit/No Credit) in FALL 2020, with only one of the two counting against the maximum of four courses over their college career (not including Spring 2020).
- Students may elect this option for at most one course in any one department. The CR/NC grade option is not available for Shared Passage Seminars or for the final course taken to satisfy the language requirement (i.e. 103 or 201).
- Letter-graded courses taken as CR/NC may not count towards any major, minor, or concentration (including required cognates), nor may they satisfy prerequisites for those course sequences that require a “C- or better,” without special permission from the department.
- Students who take a course for a CR/NC grade may retake the course for a letter grade
- Students may choose to apply the CR/NC option at any time during the course, up to 5 p.m. Friday of 10th week. The professor will assign a letter grade as per normal procedure, but the Registrar’s Office will convert passing grades to CR and will convert an F to NC. (Professors will not be formally notified if students have taken this option.)
These changes reflect the desire to provide additional flexibility for students and reflect consideration of student feedback about the CR/NC policy last spring.
Prevent the Spread!
As a reminder, these are three of the most important preventative steps each of us must take to curb the spread of illness in our K community:
- Mask Up. When in shared interior spaces, or when physical distancing isn’t possible outdoors, wear a mask that covers your nose and mouth (without ventilation valves).
- Wash Up. Wash your hands frequently and for a duration of 20 seconds. If soap and water aren’t available, use hand sanitizer with 60%+ alcohol content.
- Back Up. Everyone is expected to maintain a physical distance of six (6) feet from others, in interior and exterior spaces.
While it’s critical we follow these steps on campus, it’s just as important to keep them in mind when off campus! Avoid parties and social gatherings where public health guidelines are not being followed and help protect the hive.