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Merrimack Winter 2021 Magazine MERRIMACK WINTER 2021 THRIVING IN A TIME OF DISRUPTION Merrimack’s commitment to being open, residential and safe during COVID-19 CONTENTS MERRIMACK A Magazine for Our Alumni, Parents and Friends Winter 2021 President Christopher E. Hopey, Ph.D. Executive Editor Bethany LoMonaco Managing Editor Danielle Hardee M’15 Writers Doug Baulf Ginny Caggiano Brie Guilfoyle Libby Johnson Kaitlyn Manighalam Margaret Popper 2 Design PBD Partners Photographers Sergeant Samantha Ackerson 18 Bill Averette Webb Chappell William Cherry Leise Jones Scott Grau Tom Kates Kelli Readey ’16 Kevin Salemme ’95 Mary Schwalm James Stankiewicz Editorial Offices 6 Merrimack Magazine Box A-8, Merrimack College 315 Turnpike Street In this edition: North Andover, MA 01845 www.merrimack.edu 2 Innovation in a Time 9 The Winston School of facebook.com/merrimackcollege of Disruption Education and Social Policy twitter.com/merrimack Merrimack’s response Merrimack received a @merrimackcollege to COVID-19 transformational gift to rename the school Every effort has been made to contact copyright 6 Warriors on the Front Lines holders of any material reprinted in this magazine. Alumni join the fight 18 More Music at Merrimack Any omissions will be righted in subsequent issues against COVID-19 Introducing Merrimack’s true if notice is given to the editor. Division I marching band 8 A Resurgence of Dedication Merrimack is resolved to 22 Warrior Top 10 continue its work against The highlights of inequality and racial injustice Merrimack’s inaugural year as a Division I institution On the cover: Students (left to right) Michael Belanger, Brianna Bailey, Maria Buttafuoco and Jillian Rowland in front of Merrimack’s newest signage on its North Andover campus. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends, March 13, 2020, will You will read in the pages ahead how the Warriors of be remembered at Merrimack College met the challenges that were laid before Merrimack College as them by COVID-19 and how this uncertain time has laid the the day the world turned groundwork to create an even greater Merrimack — from the upside down. On that day beginning stages of planning and then implementing a robust we sent a campus email to COVID-19 testing strategy, to adhering to new policies on notify all employees and campus such as wearing face coverings, and socializing and students that our courses living in dedicated pods, to the new innovations in hybrid and and jobs were going remote learning. remote in response to the Back in the spring, I made a commitment to bring our emerging coronavirus, students, faculty and staff back to campus and to be residential COVID-19. this fall. Working together, and through thorough planning The emergence and the and preparation, we were able to bring our students back disruption of COVID-19 to campus for what was a very different, yet very successful quickly tested the semester. By all accounts, our planning; our comprehensive Merrimack College and disciplined approach to mitigation, testing and contact community and changed tracing; and our faith and trust in our students, faculty and our way of life on campus. Little did we know nine months staff have paid off. later we would be still be managing the impacts of COVID. None of what Merrimack has achieved these past months Over the past nine months, Merrimack College has risen to would have been possible if it were not for our extended the challenge and responded to a virus that fundamentally community — our alumni, parents and friends. Your support impacted our learning and residential environment. We has been instrumental as we navigated this time of upheaval, moved swiftly to support our students, faculty and staff, who and we truly never felt alone. Thank you for your continued continued their daily work through new remote technologies, support and for believing in Merrimack. created a student emergency fund during a time of economic Until we can be together again, I hope that this magazine distress and resolved to continue our work against inequality finds you and your loved ones safe and well. and racial injustice. There is no question that this year brought with it many hardships — but it also brought forward some of Sincerely, the greatest accomplishments in this College’s history. Christopher E. Hopey, Ph.D. President “There is no question that this year brought with it many hardships — but it also brought forward some of the greatest accomplishments in this College’s history.” DR. CHRISTOPHER E. HOPEY, PRESIDENT WWW.MERRIMACK.EDU 1 INNOVATION Article by Ginny Caggiano Photos by Tom Kates 2 MERRIMACK • WINTER 2021 IN A TIME OF DISRUPTION How Merrimack College is overcoming COVID-19 During what will go down in history PIVOTING TO ONLINE LEARNING At the same time, campus leadership as one of the biggest crises the When academic institutions across the was hard at work engaging in strategic world has ever faced, the COVID-19 country began closing their campuses conversations, sourcing ideas from pandemic has created unique and transitioning to online instruction national and local health agencies, and obstacles for all higher education in March, Merrimack was more creating a community-wide continuity institutions, including Merrimack prepared than most to successfully and safety plan — amid a fluid situation College. No longer able to bring tackle the digital shift. As an Apple that, at times, changed every few hours. together large groups of people for Distinguished School, the College has “I think those two factors — having the teaching, researching, living and long been committed to technological right technology and the right people engaging, Merrimack had to quickly innovation — incorporating the latest in place — gave us the ability to tackle pivot to new modalities earlier this digital strategies and tools to enhance remote learning successfully despite the year — and create a forward-looking the teaching and learning processes. circumstances,” Ellard said. and thoughtful plan for safely bringing “At the beginning of the pandemic, the community back together. REOPENING CAMPUS many schools were scrambling to buy Through careful investments of time technology for their students and create When the spring semester ended in and resources — over $18 million to venues for their faculty to engage with May, President Hopey had already date — Merrimack College responded the curriculum virtually,” said Peter announced that the College would to the COVID-19 crisis by examining Ellard, Ph.D., vice president and dean be residential in the fall and was well every strength and weakness of the for student outcomes. “At Merrimack, into the planning stages. As science, College to produce the best teaching our students already had iPads in their technology and public policy continued and learning outcomes for our students. hands and knew how to use them. to evolve, Merrimack focused on being Throughout it all, one priority remained Many of our faculty had also already agile — leveraging faculty expertise clear: Merrimack would safely reopen been trained to use learning technology. and community support. Those factors allowed us to transition its campus and allow for in-person One of the first actions taken was to quickly and seamlessly.” learning and residential living for the reach out to the Broad Institute of MIT fall semester, no matter the effort or Meanwhile, campus support service and Harvard to enroll Merrimack in cost. “From the start, we recognized professionals stepped up to provide a Safe for School, a robust testing program our responsibility to deliver to students wide range of remote resources. The now in use at 42 area schools. the high-quality education that Academic Success Center pivoted to “From the start, we knew frequent Merrimack is known for, regardless virtual one-on-one meetings, resulting testing was something that would help of the circumstances,” said President in a higher number of engagements keep our students and faculty safe when Christopher E. Hopey, Ph.D. “Whether compared with pre-COVID rates. they returned to campus,” President online or on campus, we are committed The O’Brien Center for Career Hopey said. “Broad’s sophisticated to delivering on our promises. Development followed suit, helping testing protocol was designed to help Throughout this period of disruption, students navigate an uncertain job institutions quickly detect the virus Merrimack has remained Merrimack.” market via Zoom meetings and virtual and swiftly remove positives from the events with employers. WWW.MERRIMACK.EDU 3 general population, thereby minimizing dedicated to active and experiential exposure to the greater community.” learning in primarily face-to- face learning environments,” said The testing protocol — which requires Kathryn Nielsen, Ph.D., associate initial testing upon return to campus vice president for teaching, learning and weekly testing throughout the and digital innovation. “To teach semester — became a central component online, or simultaneously teach of the finalized return-to-campus plan, both on campus and online, they a four-phased approach to reopening had to reimagine and redesign based on recommendations from local, the traditional in-class learning state and national authorities. As the activities, such as mini-lectures, testing protocol was so important for the discussions, group- and team- success of this effort, President Hopey based work, labs, performing arts, named Dr. Traci Alberti the director of presentations and assessments. Our COVID-19 campus surveillance. Alberti faculty really rose to the challenge.” has spent the entire semester ensuring all protocols were followed as directed SUPPORTING STUDENTS — by the state. ON AND OFF CAMPUS As a result, Merrimack conducted over Whether students are learning 66,602 tests during the fall semester on or off campus (or through a alone. This effort allowed the College to combination of the two) this fall, make swift decisions to remove positive Merrimack has gone the extra mile cases from the population before spread to ensure that adequate services and to isolate clusters.
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