Greetings from my home office, where I sit writing at the beautiful roll top desk I inherited from my father. A lot has changed since our March newsletter, at Vanderbilt, in middle Tennessee, and around the world, but I don’t have to tell you that. We’re all figuring out how to teach and learn and work remotely as we practice social distancing to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Many of the emails I’ve received in the last week have included a word of thanks for the Center for Teaching and its work over the last month helping the campus shift to alternative and online instruction. I’m incredibly proud of my CFT colleagues and the amazing work they’ve done during these unprecedented times supporting the Vanderbilt teaching community.
“I’m sure you must be swamped” is also fairly common, and accurate. I don’t recall another time in my 15 years at the CFT that we’ve been this busy. And I expect we’ll continue to be busy this spring summer, as we shift our programming to support the university’s move to remote teaching and learning.
