{"id":1048,"date":"2020-04-01T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virginiawestern.edu\/grants\/notes\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2022-03-30T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T20:59:16","slug":"look-at-this-ingenuity-and-teamwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virginiawestern.edu\/grants\/2020\/04\/look-at-this-ingenuity-and-teamwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Look at this ingenuity and teamwork!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, I shared how my family and I were coping with the pandemic<\/a> … and I asked the college how the Campus Engagement workgroup might help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The engagement team’s purpose is to help enhance internal communication and knowledge sharing across Virginia Western.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becky Kraemer, VWCC’s Assistant Recruitment Coordinator (who also serves on the engagement team), quickly emailed me some examples of the positive — the joy! — happening in the midst of the crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becky wanted to spotlight three coworkers (and all of them said it was OK to publish before this post went public). She wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ray Wickersty <\/strong>(New Student Advisor): He made an awesome YouTube video demo-ing how to work Google voice so all the advisors and people in Chapman could get a hold of students during this time but protecting their real cell phone numbers.  (Ray added that this allows anyone at the college to have a spare phone number to interact with students, thus protecting their personal phone numbers. He is setting up a Zoom meeting room at 9 a.m. weekly. If anyone would like to Zoom in and get some assistance or pose questions, he will be available. You can find Ray at: https:\/\/vccs.zoom.us\/j\/3723698837<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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