{"id":11123,"date":"2020-03-26T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?p=11123"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:00","slug":"message-from-the-director-supporting-students-during-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/2020\/message-from-the-director-supporting-students-during-covid-19-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Director: Supporting Students during COVID-19 Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Message from the Director: Supporting Students during COVID-19 Crisis\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Dear EURUS Students,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to check in with all of you as we move into the second week in what is likely to be a longer-than-we-would-have -hoped time during which our lives and behaviors must fundamentally alter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please do, above all, know that you can count on my and my colleagues at EURUS if you need any assistance, from course-related issues to health-related ones.&nbsp; We will help you directly or find the people who can and offer support in the meanwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will have received the President\u2019s message, which offers mental health resources.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/How-to-self-manage-In-this-COVID-19-period-english-version-march-22-2020.pdf\">I am adding one here, highly recommended for all of us\u2014it\u2019s a \u201cworksheet\u201d that allows us ways to think about how to self-manage in this stressful period.<\/a> The activities help us think through how best to adapt to this new situation we find ourselves in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As all of you know, Spring\/Summer course delivery has been moved online.&nbsp; The university is working to remodel its course offerings and these will be posted soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can\u2019t know how the next weeks, much less the next months, are going to go. &nbsp;What we need to do above all is to follow the advice from our medical professionals (here, Ottawa Public Health) and to support each other, as a community, as best we can. We will get through this, together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, contact me at any time with any concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeff Sahadeo,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director, EURUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jeff.sahadeo@carleton.ca\">jeff.sahadeo@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear EURUS Students, &nbsp; I wanted to check in with all of you as we move into the second week in what is likely to be a longer-than-we-would-have -hoped time during which our lives and behaviors must fundamentally alter. 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