Gryphons Nest https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:33:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 House Calls program revised for pandemic times https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine/2021/06/house-calls-program-revised-for-pandemic-times/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=house-calls-program-revised-for-pandemic-times https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine/2021/06/house-calls-program-revised-for-pandemic-times/#respond Mon, 21 Jun 2021 04:04:37 +0000 https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine/?p=9385 Just over 600 first-year students received a friendly phone call or online chat as part of U of G’s House Calls program, which was modified due to the ongoing global pandemic. Run by U of G’s Student Housing Services, the unique program begun in 2016 involves staff, faculty and student-staff volunteers who typically pay door-to-door

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]]> Just over 600 first-year students received a friendly phone call or online chat as part of U of G’s House Calls program, which was modified due to the ongoing global pandemic.

Run by U of G’s Student Housing Services, the unique program begun in 2016 involves staff, faculty and student-staff volunteers who typically pay door-to-door visits to new students in campus residences. They check in to see how students are doing and to share resources.

Under COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s program happened online and over the phone and involved residence students as well as first-year students connected online through the Gryphons Nest program run by Student Affairs.

About 112 volunteers signed up for House Calls.

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