But since then, she told colleagues Tuesday, the incidence of cases has been low, and all asymptomatic or mild. Indeed, when undergraduates returned in late August, overwhelmingly vaccinated, there was a spike in transmissions, so testing and tracing had to be ramped up and distancing and masking mandates reinforced. Gay is far from consigning the coronavirus to history.

And those impacts will not be limited to one year we are on a changed trajectory that will persist for some time.” The fall 2020 forecast projected a $100-million-plus loss for fiscal 2021, including a large cash deficit that could drain FAS’s reserves, limiting its ability to pursue new research fields. In 2020, staring into the pandemic and a largely depopulated campus with teaching all online, Gay bluntly wrote, “This year is different.” The faculty were reminded then by FAS’s finance staff of her June 2020 outlook, which warned of the financial impact from the pandemic that “will be significant, in the hundreds of millions of dollars, on par with that of the 2008 financial crisis, if not greater. achieving financial results far better than those initially feared.plotting a path toward relaxing some of the constraints put into place to cope with the pandemic-like scaling up the number faculty searches significantly and.navigating from a community shut down by the coronavirus in the spring of 2020, through a year of remote teaching, and now to a successful (so far) resumption of on-campus learning.That’s a quick interpretation of dean Claudine Gay’s annual report on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and the accompanying financial results for fiscal year 2021, discussed with colleagues yesterday afternoon at the faculty’s monthly meeting. The good news is that the bad news isn’t so bad.

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