Happy Wednesday! Cold and Flu season is right around the corner (in addition to the Covid-19 concerns we are already managing). While you monitor your daily health and symptoms you may have questions when you develop sniffles or a cough. When these questions come up, checking in with Linda Mastro at our Health Center is … Read more
Dear UMPI Community, My thanks to all of our students, as well as members of our faculty and staff, who have participated in our past two rounds of asymptomatic corona-19 testing. This baseline testing has confirmed the success of our Safe Return plans and, more importantly, illustrates your continuing dedication to our ethics of care … Read more
Greetings to all students, Welcome back! I know the past 6-7 months have been very difficult and everyone has had it with this pandemic. We are nervously, but gratefully back to our campus and we look forward to the best year we can have. It’s been a long and difficult road and it seems like … Read more
Dear UMPI Community, As announced on the ‘Together for Maine: Principles for a Safe Return’ website, the University of Maine at Presque Isle and the University of Maine System are committed to providing you tools for staying healthy and taking measures to limit transmission of the novel coronavirus. One of the ways we all may … Read more
Greetings UMPI community, We hope you are having a great first week of classes. Thank you to everyone for following the new safety guidelines and for wearing face coverings on campus. As you know, this coming weekend is Labor Day weekend. In previous years many of our campus community members would travel and/or attend large … Read more
We hope you have had a great summer and we look forward to a safe, healthy, academic year. As with many other things, due to COVID-19 we have had to make changes to our standard operating procedures to help ensure the inadvertent spread of the virus. Here is the process for requesting COVID-19 State Test … Read more
Dear UMPI Students! First off, welcome back, whether you are attending classes from a distance (near or far) or on campus! And if you are on campus, just a friendly reminder of what to expect in the classroom, residence halls, and public spaces (CIL, Gentile Hall, Campus Center, etc) as you return. Also– we have … Read more
Dear UMPI students, Greetings from Presque Isle! We want to make sure all members of our student body are aware of the press release that was shared with the media today regarding student parties and social gatherings. Here’s a quick link to the release (and it also appears below): https://www.maine.edu/blog/2020/08/21/university-system-targets-prohibited-student-parties/ It is vitally important for all … Read more
Dear UMPI Students, We are very much looking forward to welcoming all of you during our Safe Return to campus beginning with move-in and COVID-19 testing next week and culminating with the start of our fall semester on Monday, August 31. We have been preparing for this process literally for months; you can find out … Read more
Dear Colleagues, As we approach the start of the fall semester, I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight a few key areas that we ask everyone to keep in mind as we move forward in our “new normal.” 1. The campus will have a different look when you arrive. Most notable will be the … Read more