Gustavus Blogs

Year: 2020

  • Temporary Access to Adobe Creative Cloud Products on Your Personal Device

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    btwaddle

    As a result of campus closure, student and employee access to Adobe Creative Cloud in labs and classrooms is not available. While we are still offering access through our virtual environments, Gustavus has worked with Adobe to provide temporary access for students and employees directly on their devices.  Installing the applications directly on your device…

  • College Faces Financial Fears Amid COVID-19: Uncertain Times Lead to Financial Worries among Staff and Students

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    llind

    The spread of COVID-19 has brought with it a flood of economic worries and uncertainties, and now that Gustavus has closed its doors for the rest of the Spring Semester, the question of how the school will be impacted financially still remains. The economic hardships felt in the global market have led to significant decreases…

  • The Difficulty of going Digital: Online Learning Forces Classes to get Creative or Make Serious Cuts

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    llind

    As Gusties are all too aware, class plans have been changing quickly. Due to the suspension of in-person classes, as announced last week, professors have been scrambling to re-arrange class schedules, assignments and projects. However, due to the nature of Gustavus’ hands-on learning approach, this has been extremely difficult for various departments. Classes such as…

  • Message to Students

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    Dear Students, As you have likely heard, the Governor has issued a “Stay at Home” order beginning on Friday, March 27, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. and extending until Friday, April 10 at 5 p.m. For us on campus, that means that additional employees will move to remote work and Lund Center will close to all…

  • Unprecedented Events: 1998 Tornado, 2020 Coronavirus

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    llind

    On March 29, 1998, Saint Peter was devastated by a F-3 tornado that destroyed homes, tore through the campus of Gustavus, and took one life. Almost twenty-two years later, Gustavus (and the entire world) has been forced to confront the novel coronavirus and the uneasy reality and uncertainty of the future. The tornado in 1998…

  • Searching for structure in a chaotic world

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    llind

    The past week for college students across the country has been stressful to say the least – within the span of just a few days we went from just washing our hands more often to having the rest of the semester move online and moving off of campus. These high-speed changes are jarring and difficult…

  • Gustavus Operations Under Minnesota’s Stay at Home Order

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    TO: The Gustavus Community FROM: President Bergman SUBJECT: Gustavus Operations Under Minnesota’s Stay at Home Order DATE: March 25, 2020 My thoughts are with all of you as we continue to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past two weeks, even while things changed from day to day, I saw our community step up…

  • What to do when there’s nothing to do

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    llind

    On any normal day, having no responsibilities and time off from class sounds fantastic, but when it comes to days of staying inside, Netflix and doing absolutely nothing gets old real fast. Having to stay inside has led to doing some interesting activities. “I’ve playing Animal Crossing for the past three days straight,” Junior Martha…

  • Daily Update: March 25, 2020

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    Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced a “Stay at Home” order that will be in effect from 11:59 p.m. on Friday, March 27 through 5 p.m. on Friday, April 10. President Bergman sent a message to the Gustavus community (linked below). Additional information was also communicated to students (linked below), faculty, and staff.

  • Gustavus Operations Under Minnesota’s Stay at Home Order

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    jakin

    The College will further limit on-campus employees and offerings. Students living on campus will continue to be supported with essential services.