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Important updates on COVID-19

Read a letter from Tim Gossen, Ed.D., vice president of Student Affairs, as he covers COVID-19 updates, including wearing masks outside on campus, important quarantine details, and changes to food service.

Information on quarantine

Get details on what happens if you’re asked to quarantine, including where you might go, what you’ll need to bring, how you will get food, and more.

Student Senate president remarks

Kendall Archer, Student Senate president, offers a few words of encouragement and challenges all students to do their part in keeping campus open through November.

Meal plan switch period

Forget to sign up for your meal plan? Want to upgrade to the All Access Plan? The meal plan selection forms will reopen Monday, Aug. 31, to Friday, Sept. 4, for you to change your plan.

Answers to your questions

Take a look at a few of the questions (and answers) we’ve received about visitors, overnight guests, quarantine, and more.

Upcoming Campus Ministry events

Check out the list of upcoming events offered by Campus Ministry.

Heroes on the front lines – Colleen Joyce ’10 and Joe Haynes ’09 battle COVID-19 in Chicago

Colleen Joyce '10 and her husband Joe Haynes '09 say they wonder regularly which one of them will contract COVID-19 first. They know, deep down, the question is ultimately more of a “when” than an “if.” Joyce, an RN2 who works at Rush University Medical Center in...

Heroes on the front lines – Charles Thibault ’21 was stationed in pandemic epicenter

As an Army Reserve medic, Sgt. Chuck Thibault ’21 is trained for trauma situations in battle, things such as gunshots and explosions. He never dreamed he’d be working 12-hour shifts battling the coronavirus in the epicenter of this pandemic. But when he describes his...

Dashboard with COVID-19 statistics now live

To help answer questions and show transparency in how COVID-19 is affecting our university, the Marketing and Communication Office has created a dashboard on smumn.edu/coviddashboard. This dashboard currently details positive COVID-19 tests for the week of Aug. 17....

Mary Jane Melendez of General Mills to be honored during Saint Mary’s Hendrickson Forum

Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota will honor Mary Jane Melendez, chief sustainability and social impact officer for General Mills and president of the General Mills Foundation, with the 2020 Hendrickson Medal for Ethical Leadership at this year’s virtual Hendrickson Forum, scheduled for noon Tuesday, Nov. 10.