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?Eric Mansfield:Good morning. And thanks for joining us here on Facebook for a Facebook Live session to talk about the fall semester here at Kent State University. I'm Eric Mansfield from Kent State's Media Relations Office. We'll be taking your questions and getting answers from two people who really know what's going on. Let me first bring in my good friend. Good to see you. Melody Tankersley, our Interim Senior Vice President and Provost. Melody, where are you? And how are you doing?Melody Tankersley:Hey Eric. It's good to see you. I am in my house at my kitchen island, the sunniest place in the house. So I like to be here to see what all is going on and get some of those rays, even if it's just through the window.Eric Mansfield:Yeah. So for many of us, our kitchens have become our second office, so great to have you. And we're also good to great to have my good friend, Mary Parker, our Vice President for Enrollment Management, a busy, busy lady throughout the summer and actually all year, Mary, where are you? And how are you doing?Mary Parker:Hi there. I am doing well. I'm actually in the office today and I am looking out at the beautiful campus. It's absolutely gorgeous today and looking out at the plant and actually I've seen a few people walking by exercise. So it's nice to be back on campus.Eric Mansfield:Yeah, I heard there were some deer running around on campus because there's not as many people, just the middle of the day and here they are.Mary Parker:I haven't seen those. I'll keep an eye out for the deer. I'll let you know.Eric Mansfield:Well, great. For those of you are joining us on Facebook, type in your questions, we'll get to as many as we can today, but later today and hopefully very, very soon, all of our students will be receiving an email from the university about scheduling for the fall semester and what that looks like. So Mary walk us through the basics when students log into their schedule, what's it going to look like for the fall?Mary Parker:Great. So as you mentioned, an email communication will go out today. And what that will do is really allow the students to ... it tells them how to log on to Flashline to look at their courses. We really have worked hard. Our registrar's office, our curriculum office, our faculty have really worked hard to ensure that our instructional spaces and enrollment capacity are where they need to be so that we can keep our students safe.Mary Parker:So students now can go online when the email comes out and look at their core schedule to see the delivery method that their courses are going to be in. Whether that's going to be a face to face course, because some may be are remote, but it will give them that information. It also will provide them with other additional things about FAQ's, questions that they may have, and it shows them how to read every line on the fee bill, I mean, on the core schedule. So we really, again, just wanted to make sure that we sent this information out, give families an opportunity to review it. And then if they have questions after that, they certainly can call our one stop and we can certainly walk them through it.Eric Mansfield:So Melody, when they see those courses traditional, online or remote, what do each of those mean?Melody Tankersley:That's a great question because it does get this time a little confusing, all of those words. So when you look on your schedule under location, you'll see words like remote or web course or a building with a room number in it. So that's really the place you're going to look to know how the course will be delivered. If it's remote, then that means it'll be delivered through remote instruction and remote instruction can be happening in real time. It can happen part of the time in real time, part of the time remotely and students doing things that on their own, and we call that synchronous when it is happening in real time. And it can also be on your own, which would be asynchronous. And then if it has the building and a room number, and that means that the course will be delivered in person.Melody Tankersley:So traditional and online or the types of instruction, but you really want to focus in on the location. When you look on that schedule, look for location and that'll tell you whether it's a 100% online course. And if it was, you already know that because that's what you signed up for in the beginning. Those haven't changed at all. Those are all still online, a 100% online as they were when the students signed up for them. Or if it's so remote class, it'll say remote for the location, but if it's going to be in person, it'll say the building and a room number.Eric Mansfield:So it's possible that they signed up for a course back in the spring, that was going to be face to face and now it is become a remote course?Melody Tankersley:That's absolutely right. Only the face to face courses that when you signed up for a face to face, if there was a change to remote, that's the ones that would have changed.Eric Mansfield:We have our first question here, Melody, about somebody saying my son's classes are fewer than 50 students. One's in a lab. So they're showing traditional. Remote [inaudible 00:05:20] possible to have a blended version or delivery?Melody Tankersley:It is. If it has the location, then it would be blended. If it says remote, then it's all remote. Our faculty have worked so hard. I can't tell you how proud I am of the faculty. We've had over 500 of our instructors go through training to really learn how to do new things through remote instruction to really help engage students through remote instruction. And we can even deliver labs through remote instruction. So yeah, those courses can still be delivered remotely. Okay.Eric Mansfield:So Mary, is there a deadline for students to lock in these courses or do they still have chances to change sections if they choose?Mary Parker:Absolutely. They certainly do. And keep in mind, there's a schedule of dates and things that do occur. Right now, this information is out will be going out and they can look at it and make changes to their schedule. But remember our ebills go out. That's the bill that goes out to let students know when they need to pay. That will be going out on July 21st and then fee bills are due to lock in your courses on August 7th. So you do have some time, but I certainly would encourage you to review those, make any changes that you feel like you need to make or want to make. Because again, those ebills will be going out on July 21st.Eric Mansfield:Okay. So they still have some chance. I'm guessing for both of you that the advisor for each student is playing a big part here.Melody Tankersley:Absolutely. Our academic advisors, please, please [inaudible 00:07:05] and families encourage your students to talk to their academic advisors about any changes that they want to make at this point. About any information they have about courses. They're available to you. So please get in touch with your academic advisors. They're eager to help.Eric Mansfield:We have a question here about professors and office hours. Is that still TBA or do we know how that might work?Melody Tankersley:Yeah, that's a good question. All of our faculty will have in office hours. It depends on a lot of different variables, how they will deliver, but I know that faculty are eager to meet students where they are. So if students are meeting a remote office hour, I know that faculty will be willing to jump on and have that remote session. And also some faculty might have in person. We have to be really careful with all of our faculty, staff, and especially our students, in thinking about how to maintain the health, the wellness and protect everyone. Faculty offices aren't very big. So the ability to have safe distance in those spaces can mean that maybe faculty would need to move to a bigger space if they could meet face to face with students. But we expect a lot of faculty who will be meeting one-on-one in person through remote technologies that they can have that conversation just like we're having with all of you right now through either zoom or teams meetings. We actually want our students to meet with faculty, just like always, and our faculty are eager to meet with the students.Eric Mansfield:Mary, you mentioned the ebills a moment ago, so can we just talk broadly about where financial aid stands heading into the fall semester?Mary Parker:Absolutely. Our financial aid office is working extremely hard every day. We're receiving documents. Families are receiving their award letters. What I want to say to families that are out there, if you've not received it, check in with our one-stop see if there are any documents missing. I know over the last couple of weeks, we've been doing a lot of personal outreach, letting students and families know what documents they need to turn in so that we can get them an award letter so we can get their financial aid taken care of and we know those are coming in.Mary Parker:But I want to encourage, if you're not sure, check with us. You still have plenty of time before those ebills go out so that we can get those documents in and get you an award letter. What we want to make sure again, that families know is that we are here to help support you in any way that we possibly can. We do not want costs to stand in the way. We want to make sure that and our financial aid office and our one-stop office ready to serve and answer any questions or to help you.PART 1 OF 4 ENDS [00:10:04]Mary Parker:Ready to serve and answer any questions or to help you in any way.Eric Mansfield:I see some specific questions about tuition. Tuition was set by the board of trustees at its early June meeting and returning students will see no increase in their tuition for the coming year and the incoming freshman class have their tuition set for the next four years. More questions on that, I should say, more answers on that can be found at our FAQs, which are art of the coronavirus page. So if you just go to kent.edu, at the top, you click coronavirus, it will take you to FAQs and university communications. And you can also call in specific questions to our one-stop office at (330) 672-6000. Melody, I know it's going to be a year different, or I should say a semester, different than we've ever seen before, but the quality of instruction regardless of delivery is still going to be the same, correct?Melody Tankersley:Yes, that's correct. Our faculty were tremendous in turning over 9,700 courses to remote instruction so quickly in the spring. But truth be told, just like our students, they were working on that as it happened and they did a great job, and I know that they also knew that they wanted to do better, knowing that we're moving into the fall semester where it's really our opportunity for physical space, that holds us back in not being able to offer everything face-to-face as we, especially our faculty, would like to be able to do.Melody Tankersley:So what they did, as I said, we've had over 400 of of our faculty members take workshops this summer, week long workshops, on how to engage students better through remote instruction, how to set up opportunities that allow more engagement, more opportunities for doing things differently that they knew about even in the spring. So I'm anticipating for some really incredible things happening in our remote instruction. And I just, I can't thank our faculty enough for all that they've put into really upping their game for the fall semester.Eric Mansfield:Melody.Mary Parker:Can I?Eric Mansfield:We have a question from... go ahead Mary.Mary Parker:No, I just want to add, because it's relevant to what Melody said and I think it's important. We've gotten a lot of questions about, "Should our students sit out?" And as a mom and our provost, a mom of a college student, I think we both would agree that yeah, there is some uncertainty, but what we want you to know is that college may look a little different or may feel a little different, but our core mission of teaching absolutely will not change. And as our provost said, our faculty have worked so hard and they know that they're educating our leaders of tomorrow.Mary Parker:So what we don't want is our students to sit on the sidelines. What we want, and I've heard our provost say this so many times, is we want them to lean in, we want them to lean in and embrace the unknown and learn through these experiences. And I've heard her say that on multiple times, and as a parent of a daughter who's going to be starting college, I've said to her the same thing, no, we're going to lean in because these things that we learn and what we go through is only going to help prepare our students for the workplace and for their education. So thank you provost for saying that.Melody Tankersley:Thank you, Mary. Thank you for reminding me of that.Eric Mansfield:We have some, some inquiries about the health conditions, what to expect with COVID. I would just tell everyone to go to kent.edu at the top, you'll see the little button there for the flashes safe seven. This will be emphasized throughout the summer to prepare for the fall semester and there's direct information there on how things will be conducted regarding masks, social distancing, and things like that. So please check that out if you get the opportunity there. Melody to be expected, we have a question about our outstanding college of nursing, will student teaching and clinicals still be a possibility for nursing students, if you know?Mary Parker:Yeah, thank you. Yes, our nursing faculty and staff have been working hard with our partners. We're really grateful to be located a place that is surrounded by world-class health leaders. And working with those hospitals clinics, all of those different health settings to make sure we would have an opportunity for our nursing students to safely be able to engage in those clinical experiences. So we anticipate those to continue and we can continue to assist those spaces and doing their mission as well. We've always been a leader in helping... we're a leader definitely in world-class graduates from our nursing program, so we will continue with that.Eric Mansfield:Mary, we have a question about online fees because typical online classes may have some online fees. Now that of course has become a remote course, so it's happening online, are there online fees for that as well?Mary Parker:If the course was a traditional face-to-face course, and is moving to remote, there will be no additional charges. And as the provost said earlier, if you signed up for an online course and you knew that you were registering for that, there are charges with that, but moving a face-to-face to remote, there will be no additional charges.Eric Mansfield:Okay, thank you so much. Talking with Mary Parker, our Vice President for Enrollment Management and Melody Tankersley, our Interim Senior Vice President. Melody, we have a question about move-in day, we got freshmen who were already excited and they want to know how we'll move-in day, be different, how will the whole orientation looked different in those days leading up to the first class?Melody Tankersley:Yeah. Things are going to be a little different of course, because our number one goal is the health and safety of all of our family, our flashes family. So we'll spread out move-in so that we don't have high density of people at any one time trying to move into the dorms. So it'll be spread out over many days instead of only one day. And then our goal is to have safe activities and ways that students can get together at a distance, but still be in the same space, whether it's virtual space or whether it's a bigger physical space, that they can safely engage in some good activities to get to know campus, to get to know one another. I know that for our convocation, we're working with our colleges so that students can get to know their academic home, which is their colleges. And to start working toward kind of a life of service.Melody Tankersley:So we'll have some service learning opportunities, some ways for civic engagement. And so we're still working on what those are going to be, but we're going to make sure people are getting to know Kent State. Our freshmen, we want them to have a full experience in getting to know our community, our faculty, our staff, and what's available. What's around us, what's in the city, the beautiful city of Kent. So we've got a lot on the agenda to be happening during that time. But like I said, we are spreading things out so there won't be that density that we would traditionally have at this time of year.Eric Mansfield:Melody, we have a question about tutoring. Will tutoring be available since there'll be a lot of remote engagement, will they be access to tutors?Melody Tankersley:Absolutely. We did not miss a beat with tutoring in the spring. We had over 3000 hours of tutoring. We had 700 tutors still remotely tutoring students in about 70 different courses. So we had a great presence in the spring of tutoring and we will continue that. And even looking at adding some extra student support in the sciences, especially those classes where students took the first course and now they have to move and take the second course in a sequence. So we know that this spring, we want to give students an extra support in those courses. So if they took chemistry one, for example, in the spring and are taking chemistry two in the fall, we're going to add more tutors in there so that more students can access those supports as they move into the second level of their coursework.Eric Mansfield:Okay. We have more tuition questions than I can manage, but I'll just say a couple of things. There'll be additional emails going out to students throughout the summer that will address things regarding tuition and how things might change based on your courses. But as I mentioned earlier, tuition was set at the boards meeting back in early June and tuition did not increase for any students who were returning, and it was set for a full four years for the freshmen class. There was a question here about out-of-state students paying the out-of-state fee, even if remote learning, that would continue for out-of-state students, in-stat? Students are already paying taxes to the state of Ohio, which then supports a tax supported university. But Mary, for specific tuition questions, what's the best place for students and their families can reach out to,Mary Parker:If you have specific questions, please contact our One Stop. They are able to answer any questions that you may have about tuition. And typically when families have questions about tuition, it leads into financial aid, about the courses, so please reach out to the One Stop and they can help answer any questions that you have regarding tuition or even financial aid.Eric Mansfield:Melody, we have questions about student life. As much as you know, student center, rec center, library, going to be open for those students who live-PART 2 OF 4 ENDS [00:20:04]Eric Mansfield:Student center, rec center, library, going to be open for those students who live on campus?Melody Tankersley:Yes, things will be open, but they'll be modified. We'll have modified hours for the rec center, for example, and limited numbers of people at any one time. Look, we're really wanting ... We will follow all of the state and national guidelines about keeping our community safe and healthy, and so that's our number one goal. We want to be together, but we want to be together safely. So the library will be open. We will probably limit access to the upper floors to try to make sure we're doing good cleaning. We know where to clean.Melody Tankersley:And in between times, we'll have student activities and organizations will continue. I know that the student organizations are putting in their plans for how they will work and be socially distant so that they can, or physically distant enough so that they can do their activities together. But they're working on their plans now, and it is our hope that all of the student orgs come back fully. We want to offer everything that we can, as long as we're safe, as long as we keep all of our students, all of our staff, all of our faculty safe.Eric Mansfield:And when you talk about that, we think, again, about the Flashes Safe Seven that are on our homepage. We'll be emphasizing that throughout the summer and certainly the fall. We have quite a few questions about COVID testing. Previous communications, and this will be reinforced in some other communications, testing will be available to students and others on campus who have symptoms through the DeWeese Health Center, and a process has been put in place for those students who live in our residence halls, that those who need to be separated for a period of time will be able to do that within their residence halls. Those who need to be isolated will go to a separate residence hall that we are setting aside.Eric Mansfield:Again, more details in previous communications, and if you haven't found, or you don't know which ones, go to kent.edu/coronavirus. You can read all the university's emails there, and you can also see our frequently asked questions. Melody, there's a spot in the letter that's going out to students today about schedules that says new technology in each class will allow students who are immunocompromised or have underlying health conditions to still participate in in-person classes. So what we're telling is students who may have issues where they can't wear a mask, or can't be around people, it's a face-to-face class. They're going to be okay, right?Melody Tankersley:That's right. Our faculty are working hard, and our IT department is just phenomenal. They're installing cameras and microphones in all of our instructional spaces that will allow faculty to simulcast as they are teaching the students in front of them, to be able to simulcast to students who aren't able to be there in person. We're really grateful for that partnership with IT, and they work hard to make sure that students get what they need.Eric Mansfield:We have a high volume of questions. We're trying to get to as many as we can, and if we don't get to your question today, do know that we're tracking all of them, and we will work to have answers for them in preview, or I should say, in future communications, as much as we can. Just reiterating you can call in specific questions to our one-stop office at 330-672-6000, and you can also find a great deal of information on our coronavirus page. There's a button for it at the top of kent.edu.Eric Mansfield:This letter is going out today, Mary. And again, students can see their schedules. They should talk with their advisors. But there is still a chance, or there is still the opportunity for them to change these courses if they need to. And can they do that right on FlashLine?Mary Parker:Yes, absolutely. And as the provost said, if you have questions or concerns, your academic advisor is there to help support you, talk through any questions that you may have, but you certainly can go out there and make those changes to your schedule.Eric Mansfield:Got it. So as I look down at a few more of these questions, we have a question about spring housing. What happens to spring housing if someone's son goes back home ... In other words, they come for the fall semester, but decide to just take the courses from home in the spring. I would assume that's a residence life question, but I think we deal with that semester to semester, Melody?Melody Tankersley:Yeah, we do. And then there'll be a way to make that known, and I know our residence life people will work with any family that needs that decision.Eric Mansfield:Okay. We had a question here about in-state and out-of-state tuition. The tuition is the same. There's an out-of-state surcharge. Details of that can really be broken down on Kent.edu, or you can call again the one-stop office. The out-of-state surcharge is for those students obviously not from Ohio. Ohio students are already paying taxes toward that, so we won't beleaguer that conversation, but that's going to be the difference in that bill. Again, where you can find that information.Eric Mansfield:Let's look and see if there's another question I can get to. Lots of COVID questions, of course. Again, our Flashes Safe Seven. Testing and tracking. Our DeWeese Health Center will be doing contact tracing, working in conjunction with the health departments, and we should say that Melody. Our leadership has been in contact with the state, county, and local health leaders since January on all of this, and we're staying up to date, correct?Melody Tankersley:That's absolutely true. We're following all of the state, our local guidelines. We have a team. We have had that team in place, like you've said, since January, working with our local health department, which is the way health departments work. They work at the local level first, and they take the direction from the state and the state from the federal. And so we've been in constant contact, and we actually have a daily, weekly, if not daily talks with our health department.Melody Tankersley:But we're following all the guidelines. We are on top of all of the best practices that we have right now. I'm very, very confident in all the support we're receiving. We actually have two faculty members from the College of Public Health who sit in on every single, not only our big committees, our steering committees, but also on every single subcommittee that we have about our fall plans. And so they look at everything from the cloth facial coverings to the distancing to how we're going to disinfect to our plan for isolation, testing, contact tracing, all of that. We're getting world-class advice because of our world-class faculty.Eric Mansfield:As we prepare for the fall, today, an email is going out to students giving them an update on where things stand for their classes, and they can log on. There's also a note in there about housing, so if you've reserved housing for the fall and you are going to change your mind based on what's happening with your courses, you can do that and receive a refund of your prepayment if you do it by 5:00 PM on July 10th. That information is in the email.Eric Mansfield:Mary, one thing I wanted to address with you is there is support out there for students who are struggling during COVID in the emergency fund. Talk to us about what that is and how it helps.Mary Parker:Absolutely. We have the KSU Emergency Fund, and we have awarded over 5,500 students to date over $6 million in funds to help support students who have been impacted, who have maybe lost their job, or their families have lost their job, or they need food. We have an emergency fund application out there that students can apply and be considered for, and it's really important for us in the application, our approach has been we want to make sure not only about our students' financial wellbeing, but their mental health wellbeing. And it's been a partnership with our student affairs division, so that as we look at the applications, we want to support both of the student. But absolutely there's funding available. And if you have been impacted, please go out to the dean of students website, or if you're on the COVID website, there's a link for you to apply so that we can look at your application.Eric Mansfield:Getting a lot of questions about masks, and masks are the first step in the Flashes Safe Seven. There'll be a correspondence coming out in the days ahead to directly address conduct in the classroom as it applies to the Flashes Safe Seven, so we just ask everybody to wait for that. But we are, right now, with the Flashes Safe Seven saying when you're on campus around people you need to have a mask on as we all try to stop the spread of COVID-19. Again, if you have specific questions, you can call them in to our one-stop at 330-672-6000. Keeping track of that. Again, that email that will be coming out with your classes there.Eric Mansfield:Melody, for students who are ... This is going to be all new to them for the fall. What's the best way for them to prepare?Melody Tankersley:The best way to prepare for your classes is to be open, to be ready to engage, to be flexible. I think that flexibility right now is the word for all of us, as we're all in this new world together. Our students, they have what they need. Our incoming freshman class has just a great profile. We've got some of the highest GPAs, the highest level of engagement in their high schools and in their communities, so our freshman class is ready for this. They're ready to tackle it. So being open, being flexible, and then once you start these classes-PART 3 OF 4 ENDS [00:30:04]Melody Tankersley:... being flexible. And then once you start these classes, the best advice I have is to treat it like a job. You're in there, you're studying, you're doing your readings, you're prepared when class gets together, you've got your schedule, trying to be organized. And if that comes hard to you, organization comes really hard for me, we've got student success programs that will actually help you do that. On our website we have ideas for how to be ready, how to be organized, how to approach remote learning if your class is remote, and if your class is in person, then the very best advice, as always, any time it meets is for you to be there. For you to be present, whether it's remote or in person.Eric Mansfield:Melody, we have a question which probably affects a lot of students about what do we know about Study Abroad? And what do we know about internships for the fall?Melody Tankersley:Study Abroad is still on pause for the fall semester. Internships are contact the person that you're working with with your internship. As we know, a lot of our partners in internships might not be ready to have an in-person internship, but we know we worked with so many different organizations, companies, businesses, foundations, that were eager to still have an internship remotely. I think that a lot of the work that happened in the spring, and even this summer with internships, was new work that nobody thought they would be doing even a year ago. And our students were on the cutting edge, helping these industries and businesses figure out what to do. So even if it's not an internship that's face to face, if the company or organization is ready for the internship, they'll work with the student through the faculty or through our office that helps place internships, to make sure that we get them.Eric Mansfield:Have some questions about mental health support, which is very important for all of our students, whether you're going to be remote or blended or living on campus. And you can reach out to our DeWeese Health Center at 672 2322. There's also a nurse hotline and that information can be found on our FAQ page. But please know it's something the university is taking very seriously as we prepare to support our students.Eric Mansfield:Melody, we ended last year with the pass fail option for all of our classes. What do we know about grading for this coming semester?Melody Tankersley:The grading for the upcoming semester is back to normal. So classes will have their letter grades for the most part. Some classes you could still choose a pass fail if it was part of the way that option worked in the past, but everything is back to its typical grading process for the fall.Eric Mansfield:Mary, we have a question from a family that said they applied for the emergency fund in the spring, but they never heard back. What can they do to look into it? And how does that affect different semesters?Mary Parker:If they have applied and if they have not heard back, please contact the One Stop so we can look into that to figure out why they never received communication. And again, if you have received funds from the emergency grant, but there you still have concerns about costs, needing additional funds, again, contact the One Stop. We can pull up your individual situation and walk you through what you need to do.Eric Mansfield:Okay. We have a few minutes left here and Melody, I just want to give you a chance to talk directly to parents who are always nervous dropping their kids off to begin with, but under these current conditions, what can you tell them?Melody Tankersley:It's so true. And it is that time where parents, especially parents of freshmen and especially if it's your first child leaving, it is a nervous time. It's an uncertain time. But you've prepared them for this and you're ready for them to spread their wings. They're ready to spread their wings. And we do everything we can to support students. You just heard us talking about mental health support. We have mental health support. We have academic support. We have academic support and tutoring for specific subjects, but we also have it for those kinds of skills that you need organizationally or time management. It's an interesting time because it's not like a drop off that we've had in the past, but it's the same outcomes. It's the same opportunities. Our faculty, our staff, we're working hard to make sure that your students have the very best experience at Kent State.Melody Tankersley:Academically they will have some of the best faculties members in the country. I am so proud of all that our faculty do and their support of students is amazing. And when we think about outside of the classroom, there is not a better support system than the other students at Kent State, than the staff at Kent State. It's a great place to be.Melody Tankersley:Also, the thing that is important for you to know, is that they are learning so much by this one act. As Mary said, it is leaning into this where we are right now. This is where we are. This is our current way of living. And all that we've learned, all that our kids have learned, they're going to be fine and we're going to be right there beside them to make sure that they're fine.Eric Mansfield:Sure. And Mary, you're a parent so I'm guessing this hits you beyond just your work here as the vice president.Mary Parker:Absolutely. I was listening as the provost was talking and it's absolutely correct. As a mother who's going to be dropping off her first time freshmen very soon, it's comforting to know that I work in a place that really does, as our provost said, truly has thought through these various scenarios, everything that we are doing to prepare, to make sure that our faculty staff, and most importantly our students, are safe. And I will say, as a parent, what I say to my daughter is, "We are going to lean in." And I will say to the parents and students out there, we are going to embrace this new experience and Kent State's going to embrace it right alongside of you. We're going to be there to support you and lift you up when you need it. Whether that is from a financial situation, mental health, academics. As our provost said, we're here to support you. And know that when we say Flashes take care of Flashes, that's absolutely what you can expect here at Kent State.Eric Mansfield:We have one last academic question before we go, about flight training. Melody, do you know what's happening with flight training in the airport?Melody Tankersley:Yeah. We're moving forward with flight training. It's actually happening as we speak. The FAA has put through regulations on how to do that. We're following all of the safety precautions and guidelines for flight training. So our pilots are up in the air and getting those hours in. We anticipate that continuing through the fall semester as well.Eric Mansfield:Okay. Melody, thank you very much. Up, up and away. And just to reiterate, because we see a number of questions about the out-of-state surcharge, tuition was set by the board of trustees back in early June and stayed the same. There was no increase for any students who are returning and it was set for the next four years for the incoming freshman class. Out-of-state students pay the out-of-state surcharge, as in state students have already paid through their taxes in a way that subsidizes the university.Eric Mansfield:Melody Tankersley, Mary Parker, thank you to you both for being here today and answering these questions. An email going out to students today talking about their schedules for the fall. Make sure that when you get that, that you log onto FlashLine, see what your schedule looks like and you'll still have time to make some changes. We'll be back with other Facebook Lives throughout the summer and more communications from the university. One last pitch. If you have specific questions, give our One Stop a call 330 672 6000. Thanks for being with us everybody, have a great day. We'll see you soon here at Kent State.Melody Tankersley:Thank you. Bye.Mary Parker:Thank you. Bye.PART 4 OF 4 ENDS [00:39:04] ................
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