News

• March 27, 2020

  COVID-19 Resources for our Community

  This week, we decided to focus our newsletter on assistance: many ways that you can both seek and provide assistance during the COVID-19 crisis. We will feature more online arts content in future issues. But, for right now, we think that the focus should be on help and how we can individually and collectively maintain health and hope.

• March 23, 2020

  A Daily Report on How COVID-19 Is Impacting the Art World

  As international governments take increased precautions to limit the spread of the coronavirus, museums, fairs, and festivals are facing closures and delays. From museums and galleries to theaters and concert venues, it’s an unavoidable fact that some of the most moving experiences of art often involve being in crowded spaces. COVID-19, labeled a pandemic by the World Health Organization, has thus posed a special challenge to art institutions around the world, and their efforts to contain its spread are impressive. Here’s our latest on the coronavirus’ effect on the arts, updated daily.

• March 23, 2020

  Guidelines for Moving College Courses Online

  In response to the coronavirus, college instructors are shifting their in-person courses online. Zachary Herrmann and Penn GSE’s Center for Professional Learning have some experience making this work. For the last two years, Herrmann’s Project-Based Learning certificate program has started with an in-person summer workshop, followed by online sessions throughout the year. When teaching transitioned from in-person to online, Herrmann and his team had to modify how they plan lessons, communicate with students, and lead discussions. In doing so, they found new methods to establish meaningful and lasting connections with their class.

• March 23, 2020

  Campus Ministries Continue to Serve the Community

  The leaders of Penn campus ministries are coming together on virtual platforms to support the people of Penn and of Philadelphia while also supporting each other. Howard heads the Spiritual and Religious Life Center @ Penn. He is keeping in touch with the more than 50 different campus ministries in the Penn Religious Communities Council, covering a full range of religions, faiths, sects, and movements.

• March 19, 2020

  Five Tips to Stay Positive and Healthy During Social Isolation

  In this strange new time, it’s important to stay connected to the people you love and replace the physical contact that’s been lost. Though the coronavirus situation is changing daily, even hourly, by now the need for physical separation from those not in your household is clear.