August 2020

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.