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Joan Ferrini-Mundy

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Friday Futurecast

Health and safety update for university community members

Welcome to this week’s Friday Futurecast

These updates are archived on the UMaine COVID-19 website. The University

of Maine at Machias also has a COVID-19 website.

Message from President Joan Ferrini-Mundy:

Dear members of the UMaine and UMaine Machias communities,

I want to extend my gratitude to all members of our university communities who

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have taken the steps necessary to maintain community health and well-being

on our campuses and in our facilities statewide this fall. As of Thursday, we are

working with 126 off-campus UMaine students to confirm their vaccination or

exemption status. At UMaine Machias, we are reaching out to two off-campus

students. We appreciate the efforts of our students and the Division of Student

Life team in helping everyone meet the requirements of the vaccination policy.

Thank you, too, to our part-time and full-time employees who are on-site. As of

Thursday, Human Resources is now working with nine part-time and full-time

UMaine Machias employees; 197 part-time and 88 full-time UMaine employees

to confirm their vaccination or exemption status.

Our compliance efforts, coupled with our asymptomatic and symptomatic

testing every week, make our universities among the safest places to learn,

work and visit.

We will gather on Oct. 26 for Fall Convocation to formally greet our new

community members in the Class of 2025. Details about the event are below.

All you have done and continue to do is greatly appreciated. And important.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Sincerely,

Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Partnering to address health

UMaine and UMaine Machias community members in compliance with

our COVID-19 vaccination requirements can use PointnClick to show their

COVID-19 compliance status when attending non-class-related, indoor

events in university facilities with more than 250 participants. Check your

account for your clearance status, which reflects your compliance with

vaccination and testing requirements.

Transparent and continuing communication

Reminder: There continues to be an increasing number of positive cases

in the past two weeks in and around our campus communities. This

upward trend of positive cases is being experienced in fully vaccinated

students and employees. As a means of monitoring overall campus well-

being in our university communities, all UMaine and UMaine Machias

students and employees, regardless of your vaccination status, are

encouraged to participate in weekly campus-based asymptomatic

COVID-19 testing. Please schedule appointments via PointnClick. For

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any university community members who are symptomatic, please seek a

test at Cutler Health Center or from your primary care physician. At

UMaine, community members also can schedule symptomatic COVID-19

tests via PointnClick, which will be administered outside the Estabrooke

Hall testing entrance at the designated tent. Follow the instructions posted

at the Estabrooke entrance for symptomatic testing.

In-person, on-campus experiences and other learning modes

UMaine’s Culturefest, a celebration of countries and cultures, will be held

10 a.m.–3 p.m. Oct. 23 on the Mall. More information is online.

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is sponsoring a Fall Poetry Pop Up

at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 23. The open mic poetry reading will be held

outdoors at the Orono Village Green amphitheater, 39 Pine St. The event,

which is free and open to the public, welcomes poets of all ages to share

their work.

UMaine School of Performing Arts event details are online, including the

upcoming Jazz Night and Orchestra Concert, both in Minsky Recital Hall,

and the Jazz Ensemble and Symphonic Band performance in Hutchins

Concert Hall.

In UMaine Athletics, the men's ice hockey team hosts Sacred Heart in the

home opener for the Black Bears today at 7:35 p.m. The game can be

seen locally on ABC 7-Bangor and WPXT-Portland, will be live streamed

on College Sports Live, and can be heard on the Black Bears Sports

Network (103.9 FM) and at GoBlackBears.com. The football team travels

to take on UAlbany on Saturday at 1 p.m., live on FloSports and heard

across the Black Bears Sports Network and nationally at

GoBlackBears.com. The women's ice hockey team travels to meet

Boston College at 2 p.m. Saturday, live on College Sports Live. Men's ice

hockey closes out its weekend series with Sacred Heart on Saturday at

5:05 p.m., live on College Sports Live and heard nationally on the Black

Bears Sports Network and at GoBlackBears.com. Field hockey meets

Dartmouth in a nonconference match at 1 p.m. on Sunday on ESPN+.

Women's soccer hosts Hartford for its Senior Day game at 1 p.m. on

Sunday, live on ESPN+.

Reminder: Per health and safety guidance, all guests attending

home hockey and basketball events must provide proof of full

COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test

administered within the previous 72 hours. Patrons must wear a

face covering prior to entry to — and in — the indoor venues. More

information is online.

Flexibility, responsiveness, empathy, and science

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Registration begins Oct. 25 for UMaine and UMaine Machias Winter

Session. The three-week term runs Dec. 27–Jan. 14. Over 60 online

courses will be offered. Courses are now available to view on

MaineStreet. More information is online.

UMaine spring 2022 course enrollment begins Oct. 25; UMaine Machias

spring course enrollment begins Nov 1.

Continuing our missions for Maine

Jessica Miller, UMaine associate provost for academic affairs and faculty

development, will participate in a “Maine Calling” program on Oct. 26 on

the topic of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Maine. Miller is a certified

clinical ethicist with 20 years of experience as a bioethicist in the health

care sector. In her role as associate provost, she supports faculty, staff

and students in COVID-related policies. The Maine Public Radio program

is heard at 11 a.m., with a rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

Chancellor Dannel Malloy and his leadership team will visit UMaine on

Oct. 26 and will lead a Town Hall for faculty and staff from 1:30–3 p.m. in

Hauck Auditorium. The Chancellor and President Ferrini-Mundy will be

joined by UMS and UMaine leadership members, who will present on

academic collaborations and priorities, budget development, strategic

planning and unified accreditation. The in-person event also will be

livestreamed: youtu.be/5cS_zZxgSfE. The Chancellor is visiting all of the

UMS universities and the University of Maine School of Law as part of his

fall 2021 campus tour schedule. He will be at UMaine Machias on Nov.

16.

Fall Convocation for the UMaine and UMaine Machias communities is

3:30 p.m. on Oct. 26. The event, with the theme “Connecting Our Past

with Our Present and Future,” will feature reflections by President Ferrini-

Mundy, Chancellor Malloy, and other campus leaders, and a keynote

address by Rena Newell, Passamaquoddy Tribal Representative to the

Maine House of Representatives. It is an in-person event and will be

livestreamed: youtu.be/dnRdtnAMNqg.

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