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The following resources and services
are currently available to the Skidmore community. Updates and
additions to this list will be posted each week in the
Skidmore Weekly Bulletin. Please submit updates to this
list by email.
Skidmore College continues to provide
campus-wide COVID-19
updates here.
Academic services, advising
and coaching
Student
Academic Services, the Office
of Academic Advising, Peer
Academic Coaching and the Philip
Boshoff Writing Center will continue to support
students. A detailed list of how to access specific
services is available here. To request an appointment
for Peer Academic Coaching, students
may use this form.
Faculty
are encouraged to email the Office of Academic
Advising or Student Academic
Services if
they have questions about how to support students at this
time.
Accounts Payable
Accounts Payable staff are working
remotely and strongly encourage sending documentation
(invoices, check requests, expense reports and other forms)
electronically through scanned email attachments to Accounts
Payable. Original signatures are not required, and scanned
copies will be accepted. If a preparer or approver is unable
to physically sign a document, Accounts Payable will accept an
email directly from the individual. Please note in the email,
�As an authorized signor for my department, I have reviewed
and approved the attached payment request.� Please note that
most vendor payments are now being made by ACH transfer and
employee reimbursements are being processed as a check mailed
to your home address on file. Please email Accounts
Payable if you have any cash deposits, and special
arrangements for building access and drop-off will be made
with Campus Safety or the Card Office.
Career Development
Center
The Career
Development Center continues to support all students.
For details about what resources are available and how to
access them, see the CDC�s
COVID-19 FAQ page.
Center for Leadership, Teaching, and
Learning
The Center for Leadership, Teaching,
and Learning (CLTL) is providing updated resources for faculty
on its new webpage, Pedagogies
during the Pandemic.
Community
Service
The Office
of Community Service Programs continues to share ways
to give back. Like the Skidmore
Office of Community Service Facebook page for weekly
updates.
Dining
Services
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall is available
only to Skidmore students living on campus and employees
working on campus from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Students who have
questions about their meal plans may contact Darlene
LeBaron in the Card Office.
Employee
Assistance Program
Employees
seeking counseling services may make use of the Employee Assistance
Program.
Financial
Aid
The Financial
Aid Office staff is fully available by
email and by phone at 518-580-5750. They are checking
voicemails regularly.
First-Year
Experience
The First-Year
Experience office is reachable by email and
by phone at 518-580-8111.
Health Services and the
Counseling Center
Health
Services and the Counseling
Center are available to support students.
Human
Resources/Payroll
Human
Resources continues to provide assistance to
employees via phone or email. HR
is also offering new resources such as guidance on Best Practices for
Telecommuting.
Non-exempt
employees with questions concerning time entry should contact Joan Rivers in
Payroll.
Information
Technology
Information
Technology asks faculty to email all Help Desk
requests to a new Faculty Help Desk to
expedite responses. In your email, it is essential that you
include a cellphone or landline number so someone from IT can
contact you. Calling the Help Desk phone line will not be your
quickest means of support.
Staff
should continue to submit IT
support requests by emailing the Help
Desk or
calling 518-580-5900
from 8:30 a.m. to noon or 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
IT
is working with department heads to provide equipment where
needed. If you need a computer in order to operate remotely,
tell your supervisor, who will in turn tell the person
responsible for requests for the department.
With
re-routing, voicemails will delete automatically from the
voicemail system after seven days but will stay in your email
until you delete them.
Leadership
Activities
The Office
of Leadership Activities will continue its work online,
taking to Instagram
and Facebook to
showcase student organizations and the work that clubs are
doing from afar, and to send messages of care and hope around
this virtual campus. OLA will also promote online lectures and
articles with leadership themes, coinciding with student
government elections for the fall 2020 semester. Club leaders
can expect guidance and best practices on holding their own
elections online.
Off-Campus Study &
Exchanges
The Office
of Off-Campus Study & Exchanges will continue to
offer walk-in advising through phone calls or video chats from
1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Sign
up here.
Opportunity
Program
The Opportunity
Program remains available to offer support to all OP
students, on campus and off.
Post
Office
Skidmore College Post Office hours are
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, but after May 4, the
window will be closed Tuesdays. Student mailboxes are
accessible 24 hours a day. There are no deliveries on the
weekend. For more information, email the Skidmore Post
Office.
Pre-Orientation
Pre-Orientation
Programs is working to assemble a team of peer
leaders to help welcome Skidmore�s Class of 2024. Follow
Pre-Orientation on Instagram
and Facebook.
For more information, email Mary Ann
Toia.
Print Services
Print Services is open on Mondays and
Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If you are experiencing
a service issue or have a printing question, contact Jim
Pfoh.
Purchasing
The Purchasing Office is fully
operational and accessible by emailing Anne
Petruzzelli or Carol
Schnitzer or leaving a voicemail at 518-580-5848 or
518-580-5849.
Religious and Spiritual
Life
The Office of Religious and Spiritual
Life continues to provide online and remote programming as the
Skidmore community finds new ways to support each other. An
updated list of programs, resources and ways to stay connected
can be found on the office�s webpage.
Residential
Life
Students can reach the Office of
Residential Life by email or by
phone by leaving a message at 518-580-5765. Messages are
checked regularly during business hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. For more information, visit the Residential
Life webpage or check Instagram
for updates.
Scribner
Library
Scribner
Library is offering daily, evening and some weekend
research help by online
chat, email and phone. To learn how to request materials
from the library�s collections while the library is closed, watch
this video. Check for daily updates and resources on the
library�s
COVID-19 FAQ page. Also, Scribner Library�s bathroom
newsletter has moved online. See the April issue of The
Writing on the Stall.
Student Diversity
Programs
The Office
of Student Diversity Programs is available by email and will
continue to share information and programming while
collaborating with campus partners. To stay connected, visit
OSDP on Instagram.
Tang Teaching
Museum
The Tang Teaching
Museum staff is available to work with
Skidmore professors to make remote teaching from a Tang
exhibition or collection possible. Contact Rachel
Seligman for more information about
exhibitions, and contact Kara Jefts for
more information about collections. The Tang now offers
at-home art-making projects inspired by Tang exhibitions on
the new Tang
at Home webpage, including new coloring
pages.
Zankel Music
Center
Zankel Music Center will post links to
past Skidmore student concerts at 7 p.m. every weekday on
the Zankel
Facebook page for everyone to enjoy from
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