This image is a screenshot of a message written to SC students by William Brown (SC '02). Brown's message appeared in the "Words of Encouragement" page on PrideNet.
Images like these circulated widely on social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) in the early days of "social distancing" as many parents shifted to working at home at the same time as schools closed, keeping children at home.
The document provides guidelines and advice about how to be an online learner, how to use technologies like Zoom appropriately, and how to prevent "Zoombombing."
A group of Springfield College faculty wrote an open letter to Springfield College students in the early days of Spring Break after students had left campus, and after the announcement that the remainder of the spring 2020 semester would be taught…
An update from Sigma Tau Delta (the International English Honor Society) updating members on details related to the first-ever cancellation of its annual conference in over a hundred years. The 2020 conference was originally scheduled for late March…
This is a poem/ song of a first-hand account of life during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the urge to quarantine, people would go months without seeing friends and others not living in the same space. During this difficult time, we…
An Oral history about our experiences during the Covid Pandemic. It was a conversation between a Springfield College Sophomore and Freshman on their experiences throughout Covid and how we have grown because of it. It is interesting to see the…
This oral history is an account of experiences during the 2019-2020 COVID-19 pandemic, recorded for "COVID-19 Experiences: Our Stories," an Honors Program Out-of-Class Learning Experience. Interview questions include: Where were you when you first…
This brief oral history interview was conducted as part of an Honors Program event, "COVID-19 Experiences: Our Stories." In this conversation, professor Becky Lartigue and librarian Mackenzie Dunn took the roles of both interviewer and interviewee.