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In a University-wide message, President Kaplan cites CDC advisory in requiring all students and faculty to return to the United States
March 1, 2020
Dear Members of the Campus Community,
I am writing to provide you an important update. In response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. State Department raising travel and health advisory levels in all of Italy to warning level 3 and their recommendation that travelers avoid nonessential travel to Italy, I have made the decision to temporarily suspend all operations at our campus in Tuscany.
Therefore, I am requiring that all students and faculty currently in Tuscany return to the United States. I regret to have to do this, but I believe this is the most prudent choice to make at this time.
As we did for the group that returned on Friday, we are asking individuals coming back from Tuscany not to return to the University’s West Haven or Orange campuses until the conclusion of Spring Break. These individuals are being encouraged to follow the health protocols that we have outlined on the University website.
Should conditions permit, my hope is that we will be able to offer the impacted students the option to return to the Tuscany campus following the conclusion of Spring Break. We are communicating regularly with these students about the continuation of their studies through Spring Break and beyond.
The decision to temporarily suspend operations on our Tuscany campus is one I do not make lightly and was made following consultation with various U.S. and Italian health and governmental agencies.
I believe that our health and governmental institutions are acting in the best interests of people across the globe, and we must be responsive to their actions. With few exceptions, colleges and universities across the U.S. are responding in kind.
Over the eight years that we have had the Prato campus, I have spoken with several hundred of the students who have been there. I also personally created the campus and engaged Tuscany Campus Dean Kevin Murphy to run it. I know what our students there this spring are being forced to leave behind and how difficult this is for them.
I, thus, have struggled with whether to allow our students to stay on in Prato to see if the health threat subsides; but with the CDC increasing the risk level, I see no other option but to temporarily suspend all operations at the Tuscany campus until the situation in Italy has normalized.
My main concern continues to be protecting the wellbeing of everyone in our University community. We will continue to update the University community as necessary. Thank you in advance for helping to ease the impact of those affected by this situation.
With best wishes,
Steven H. Kaplan, Ph.D.
President
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