Due to the rise in cases of COVID-19 in other areas of the country, please consider spending Thanksgiving and Study Break here with friends.

Most course listings in the Academic Timetable now indicate whether the course will be offered online or in-person. There are a small number of course decisions outstanding, and we expect those decisions to be made and reflected on the Academic Timetable in the next few weeks.

Nova Scotia Public Health has informed Dalhousie University of a probable COVID-19 case among our student community living off-campus in Halifax. The probable case is not linked with our residence community.

We have been receiving many questions from people about how our work life will look and feel in the fall and into the winter. To a large degree this is an evolving question, but we wanted to provide an update to answer as many questions as we can.

Nova Scotia Public Health has informed Dalhousie University of a probable COVID-19 case among our student community living off-campus in Halifax. The individual is self-isolating.

An update from President Saini to faculty and staff on several items, including return-to-campus planning, enrolment and financial outlook, and more.

We have worked with the government to answer some of your questions and hopefully provide more clarity, particularly for students already in Nova Scotia and currently self-isolating prior to August 20.

To prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities, the Nova Scotia provincial government has established rules for post-secondary students arriving in the province from outside Atlantic Canada, including new required COVID-19 testing.

Planning is underway in our Faculties for the winter term (January to April 2021). Our plans for Winter 2021 are focused on a mix of online and in-person instruction, in which a significant majority of courses will continue to be delivered online but some courses with particular accreditation requirements or significant experiential learning components will be delivered in person or in a hybrid or blended format.

On behalf of the Dalhousie community, President Saini is pleased to join the presidents of the nine other Nova Scotian universities as signatories to an open letter to all Nova Scotia students.