{"id":54,"date":"2020-03-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/?p=54"},"modified":"2024-08-30T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:07:50","slug":"mcc-joins-suny-maximizes-distance-learning-to-reduce-spread-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/11\/mcc-joins-suny-maximizes-distance-learning-to-reduce-spread-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC Joins SUNY, Maximizes Distance Learning to Reduce Spread of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cAs a unit of the State University of New York, Monroe Community College plans to fully comply with Governor Cuomo\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suny.edu\/suny-news\/press-releases\/03-20\/3-11-20\/covid19-distance-learning.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">directive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u00a0today to reduce the density of people on campus and increase our distance-learning options (video conference, online, computer-based, etc.) as early as next week. By doing so, we are helping reduce the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and preserve public health.<\/span><br \/><br \/><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cAs of March 11, there are no cases of COVID-19 at MCC. MCC remains open and services will continue to be provided until further notice.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Students, visitors and others are welcomed on MCC\u2019s campuses. Large gatherings on campus will be addressed on a case-by-case basis and may be canceled or postponed.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cWe know our students, faculty and community partners have many questions related to this statewide directive. MCC is updating its response plan based on today\u2019s developments and is moving forward in order to clearly and accurately respond to questions and ensure our students\u2019 educational needs and service expectations are fulfilled. College updates are available on\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monroecc.edu\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0082bf; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">www.monroecc.edu<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">.\u201d<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u2013 Katherine P. Douglas, Ed.D., Interim President, Monroe Community College<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a unit of the State University of New York, Monroe Community College plans to fully comply with Governor Cuomo\u2019s\u00a0directive\u00a0today to reduce the density of people on campus and increase our distance-learning options (video conference, online, computer-based, etc.) as early as next week. By doing so, we are helping reduce the spread of the coronavirus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}