Re: bursar-l: Pandemic Flu Response Planning

NACUBO partnered with the Campus Safety Health and Environmental
Management Association (CSHEMA) on a webcast in November on Planning for
a Pandemic. The program was archived and is available from our web site
at http://www.nacubo.org/x8435.xml. The speakers only addressed a few
issues directly relating to bursar functions, but if your institution
hasn't gotten very far in planning for this eventuality it will be
helpful in getting you and your colleagues up to speed. The nice thing
about a webcast is that you can pull a group together in a conference
room and use it as a conversation starter.
 
Links to several other resources are provided at
http://www.nacubo.org/x7971.xml.
 
I'd be very interested to hear about the plans that colleges are making,
particularly as they affect student financial services. I asked around
at the Department of Education last fall to see what they were thinking,
but didn't get very far.
 
This has been on my mind recently as I am about halfway through reading
John Barry's The Great Influenza, a very interesting but scary (and
long) book about the 1918-19 pandemic. Anne
 
Anne C. Gross
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
NACUBO
202-861-2544 anne.gross@nacubo.org
202-449-1229 (fax)

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From: bursar-l-bounces@list.mail.virginia.edu
[mailto:bursar-l-bounces@list.mail.virginia.edu] On Behalf Of
ChrzanWilliams,Loretta (Bursar's Office)
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:38 PM
To: bursar-l@list.mail.virginia.edu
Subject: bursar-l: Pandemic Flu Response Planning

Dear Friends,
 
I just came back from an uplifting meeting concerning our institutional
response to the Pandemic Flu.
 
Our Director of Health Services explained that among other things, we'd
need to prepare for a complete campus shutdown for a period of up to 3
months.
 
There are a total of 10 subcommittees working on a plan that addresses
everything from facilities, payroll processing, 30-40% employee
absences, canceling the semester, tuition refunding, grief
counseling...you name it! For instance, what if the Pandemic hits in
late April with only a few more weeks of classes for the spring
semester? Do we assign credits and grades and keep the money, or do we
cancel the semester, drop all classes and refund all money? Or, do we
cancel summer semester and reopen in July and finish spring then?
 
(I have a headache!)
 
The subcommittee that I am on will address all Controller Operations
(Payroll, AP, AR, Grants, Accounting, Purchasing and Student Accounts).
 
I'm interested in what others are doing (especially large community
colleges, but I welcome all responses) with respect to creating a plan.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Loretta
 
Loretta Chrzan-Williams
Director, Student Accounts
Monroe Community College
1000 East Henrietta Road
Rochester, New York 14623
585-292-2288
 
 
 
 

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