<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greetings again grad students.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m sure many of you saw Russell Furr’s Tuesday announcement <a href="https://healthalerts.stanford.edu/covid-19/2020/09/22/new-santa-clara-county-recommendations-on-households-and-indoor-instruction/" class="">New Santa Clara County recommendations on “households” and indoor instruction</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A few people have inquired about whether this applies to conducting approved research at The Knoll, and for now, unfortunately, the answer is no. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The specific county guidance is <a href="https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Documents/recommendations-for-institutions-of-higher-education.pdf" class="">Santa Clara County Public Health Department issued Recommendations for Institutes of Higher Education</a> and in particular the section "Socializing and Households”. This section applies strictly to student housing, a much needed loosening up of the expectations for living at home.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been in contact with Environmental Health & Safety about this, and learned that during today’s In Persons Classroom Committee it was specifically confirmed that "household pods do not apply in shared spaces, academic, or informal learning spaces. Therefore, separate time and space is recommended even for members of the same household pod.’'</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So for now it seems our hope is that our (county’s) collective good behavior will lead to ever-improving COVID conditions and that the county will open things up another notch.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sorry to bear this news.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">-Matt</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">-- </div><div class=""><div class="">CCRMA Technical Director<br class=""><a href="https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~matt" class="">https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~matt</a><br class="">650-723-4971 x304<br class="">Pronouns: he, his, him<br class=""><br class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 9, 2020, at 6:10 PM, Matt Wright <<a href="mailto:matt@ccrma.Stanford.EDU" class="">matt@ccrma.Stanford.EDU</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Greetings CCRMA grad students!<br class=""><br class="">I’m very happy to announce that after essentially a summer’s negotiations with the Dean’s Office, CCRMA was just today approved to allow a limited number of our most urgent graduate student researchers to do certain research tasks in the building as long as staff are present. I want to be clear that the staffing requirement was imposed on us, was not negotiable, and creates logistical challenges that we are actively working on.<br class=""><br class="">The current criteria for research in The Knoll are:<br class=""><br class="">- “requiring unique facilities”, i.e., work that cannot be done from home<br class=""><br class="">- “urgent”, i.e., work whose delay would have negative consequences, e.g., paper/grant/thesis/degree-timeline deadlines.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Here is the link to our “Standard Operating Procedures” document, both a HOWTO for safe usage of the building (should your specific project(s) be approved) and also the specific proposal that the Dean’s Office approved:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mCZYJ3CSy-lePr4aV3S-sZUD_XHt_ehahi0BU4cd1lg/edit?usp=sharing" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mCZYJ3CSy-lePr4aV3S-sZUD_XHt_ehahi0BU4cd1lg/edit?usp=sharing</a><br class=""><br class="">You may need to log into Google with your @stanford.edu credentials to see this. The link allows you to add comments and suggestions that will be seriously considered for future discussions.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Part of the agreement is that "CCRMA Management transparently prioritizes projects by urgency and need for access to unique facilities.” Therefore we are rebooting the “urgent research needs” survey we first sent out in March, this time just for CCRMA. Please submit this for each urgent project that requires you to be in The Knoll:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>https://forms.gle/u7Rj9ATbr6cU5b7a7<br class=""><br class="">We will immediately use the survey results to identify the most urgent projects, then follow up with specifics on coordinating and requesting specific reservation timeslots. <br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">-Matt<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">CCRMA Technical Director<br class="">https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~matt<br class="">650-723-4971 x304<br class="">Pronouns: he, his, him<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>