{"id":98,"date":"2020-09-03T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/?p=98"},"modified":"2025-01-14T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T15:19:16","slug":"september-3-message-from-the-president-on-labor-day-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/letter-from-the-president\/september-3-message-from-the-president-on-labor-day-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"September 3 &#8211; Message from the President on Labor Day holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Update September 3, 2020 &#8211; President Nora Miller has released a video message regarding the upcoming Labor Day holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"system-readmore\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Be Wise, Stay Safe, Mask Up for Labor Day!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-7c-7PzYkF8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As we are coming to the end of our 3rd week of classes, I want to thank every member of this campus community for following our COVID protocols and looking out for each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labor Day is a public holiday that honors the American labor movement and the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our country.&nbsp; It\u2019s traditionally a time for family and social gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am asking our students, faculty and staff to please BE WISE; STAY SAFE.&nbsp; Reduce the risk of spreading the virus by following safe practices&nbsp;<strong><em>both on and off campus<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Avoid large gatherings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eat and Visit Outdoors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wear a mask when not eating\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintain physical distance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wash your hands.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assume everyone has COVID, because they might!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Carefully consider the risk to our campus community when making decisions about what you do.&nbsp; The university continues to follow CDC and State Dept of Health guidelines to mitigate the risk of spread to the extent possible.&nbsp; Our success depends on a mutual commitment and actions from everyone in our campus community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be Wise!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stay Safe!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mask Up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nora Miller<br>President, Mississippi University for Women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update September 3, 2020 &#8211; President Nora Miller has released a video message regarding the upcoming Labor Day holiday. As we are coming to the end of our 3rd week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letter-from-the-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}