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CALS DAILY DIGEST: A STUDENT INFO SOURCE

Dear CALS Students,

The health and safety of our campus community is the utmost priority. Please take care of your health by following CDC guidance and stay up to date by visiting the University's main COVID-19 page.

There's a lot of information being shared right now. In CALS, we're launching this Daily Digest email as a way to highlight an important resource, tip, or service and also share a summary of announcements. We'll continue to publish the weekly CALS Connect but, for the time being, you'll also receive this Daily Digest Tuesday through Saturday.

Service Highlight

CALS Life Management Counseling

Announcements

Research Policies for Students and Postdocs
Zoom Orientations
U-Haul Offers 30 Days Free Self-Storage amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Enterprise: College Student Travel Assistance
McKale Ticket Office Update, 3/16/2020

CALS Life Management Counseling

No-cost life management counseling is now available for undergraduate students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Ryan Daily, a licensed professional counselor, provides confidential counseling designed to assist CALS students in reaching your educational and life goals. Whether you are feeling anxiety related to COVID-19 or are experiencing other life events that are emotionally challenging, this service is here to help you.

How to Schedule an Appointment

Due to COVID-19 concerns, in-person counseling sessions are not currently available, but you are encouraged to meet with Ryan using the audio/video platform Zoom:

Students currently receiving direct counseling support from a life management counselor may continue to keep their appointment via telehealth by using the audio/video platform Zoom. Please email Ryan Daily directly for the scheduling link.
Students wanting to schedule an initial appointment with a life management counselor, but who feel they are OK to wait until in-person services resume are asked to wait until in-person services resume.
If students feel that they need to have an initial appointment with a life management counselor before in-person services resume, please email Ryan Daily to discuss options.
Email and telehealth consultations are not appropriate for emergencies. If there is an emergency, please contact 911 or consider the following resources:
- University of Arizona Counseling and Psychological Services: 520-621-3334
- Pima County Community Crisis Line: 520-622-6000
- Crisis text line: Text HOME to 741741
- National Suicide Prevention Line: 1-800-273-8255

Research Policies for Students and Postdocs

The Provost and Senior Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact have released guidance for managing research activities presently being conducted by undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs: https://research.arizona.edu/covid-19-guidance-research-students-postdocs

This communication and others pertaining to research are accessible from the research button on the University Coronavirus information page: https://www.arizona.edu/coronavirus-covid-19-information

The health, safety, and well-being of our community is our top priority. With this in mind, a primary objective is to minimize the number of undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs working on campus while continuing research operations to the extent possible given the circumstances. While at this time you are not prohibited from being on campus, it is strongly encouraged that as much work as possible be conducted remotely.

All undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs are being asked to work with their faculty research supervisors to develop a work plan that minimizes risk to themselves and colleagues, while sustaining research work to the highest extent possible. Because your faculty supervisor is most informed about how to proceed with developing these plans, we have asked them to take the lead in helping you develop a plan that could extend to the end of the semester.

This work plan should, at a minimum, include the means of communication with the supervisor, how often you will communicate, what technology is needed to support remote work, and a plan for continuing research projects to the extent possible, including addressing research milestones ranging from thesis deadlines to mandatory research sponsored reports that must be completed in a specific timeframe. Additional information is contained in the guidance document.

We highly encourage you to contact your supervisor as soon as possible to begin this process.

Finally, I’d like to extend our support to you all during this admittedly stressful time. Please do not hesitate to reach out to your supervisor, advisor, department head, or any of us with questions or concerns. Please remember to be kind to yourselves and others. We are all trying to do the best we can as we work together through this difficult time.

Please stay healthy and be safe.

Parker Antin, CALS Associate Dean for Research
Mike Staten, CALS Bart Cardon Associate Dean for Career and Academic Services
Kirsten Limesand, CALS Associate Dean for Graduate Education

Zoom Orientations

For first time Zoom users. You will learn how to login, create meetings, share screen, chat, and record. If you're new to Zoom, you might consider attending one of those sessions.This will be offered a few times:

Tuesday 3/17, 9 am: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/786671010
Tuesday 3/17, 2 pm: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/392753832

U-Haul Offers 30 Days Free Self-Storage amid Coronavirus Outbreak

As growing concerns surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak continue to disrupt, U-Haul® is stepping forward with an offer of goodwill to college students affected in the U.S. and Canada. President John “JT” Taylor announced that U-Haul will extend 30 days of free self-storage at U-Haul-owned and -operated facilities to help college students impacted by unforeseen schedule changes at their universities.

The free month applies to new customers with college IDs and is a limited-time offer subject to availability. Click on uhaul .com /storage to find the store nearest you. Contact the store by phone or visit in person to take advantage of the offer.

Enterprise: College Student Travel Assistance

With colleges and universities announcing campus closures in response to coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns, Enterprise wants to make it easier for students to get home to their families by reducing the age minimum and waiving the young renter fees for rentals through May 31, 2020.

Available to College Students 18 – 24 years of age
Valid for rentals of an economy through full size cars, minivans, small pick-up trucks and cargo vans
Offer valid at U.S. locations only for car rentals reserved in advance.
Standard driver and credit requirements apply, except for the minimum car rental age per this offer
Official Student ID must be presented at the time of rental
Offer expires 5/31/2020

McKale Ticket Office Update, 3/16/2020

Arizona Athletics

As we continue to adjust our operations to meet the changing landscape caused by COVID-19, we want to share with you a temporary plan for in-person assistance at the McKale Ticket Office.

Beginning today, March 16, and with no set end date, the McKale Ticket Office will not be open to the public for in-person assistance. Please contact your personal development officer or account representative for assistance. If you do not have an assigned development officer or account representative, ticket office staff will be available during normal business hours, 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, to assist you by telephone (520-621-CATS) and email (catsinfo@arizona.edu).

Season ticket renewals, sales, and gifts will continue to be available around the clock at www.arizonawildcats.com. Click here for more information regarding the pro-rated credits or refunds being provided to season ticket holders for baseball, softball and track.

Our student-athletes, staff and you – our fans and donors – are important to us, and we appreciate your ongoing support. Please know we remain available to assist you. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we work together to do what is best for everyone during this unprecedented time.

Arizona Athletics continues to follow the guidance from the University of Arizona on the novel coronavirus COVID-19, as well as support the NCAA’s and Pac-12 Conference’s decisions to cancel all winter and spring athletic events. We will also continue to provide our own department updates here.

We will share any updates or changes to this plan. Please call your account representative or email catsinfo@arizona.edu if you have any questions.