{"id":685,"date":"2020-09-01T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T07:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=685"},"modified":"2020-10-19T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T13:49:09","slug":"cas-buildings-reopen-with-safety-guidelines-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2020\/09\/01\/cas-buildings-reopen-with-safety-guidelines-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS buildings reopen with safety guidelines in place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Noor Al-Dajani<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah has implemented protocols to access the College of Arts and Sciences, according to an Aug. 29 email.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CAS Dean Dr. Mahmoud Anabtawi explained that a series of rules have been put in place for&nbsp; anyone entering classrooms, labs, and offices to ensure everyone&#8217;s safety.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wrote that the university would provide limited access to professors and faculty who need the labs or the classrooms for teaching purposes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Departments are scheduling limited access for&nbsp; faculty and staff during working hours, Sunday-Thursday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Face masks are required, temperature checks are mandatory upon entering, and social&nbsp; distancing and other safety procedures are in place.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While each CAS building&#8217;s maximum capacity has been increased to 50 percent of faculty\/staff&nbsp; at any one time for the fall semester, Anabtawi noted that it would be preferred if departments could try to stick to the earlier 30 percent capacity to minimize risk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To enter the CAS building, people must show a negative PCR test and also upload Al HOSN applications on their phones, wrote Anabtawi.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that there is no age restriction to enter the buildings, but urged those with health complications to work remotely to reduce the risk of getting COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Noor Al-Dajani UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah has implemented protocols to access the College of Arts and Sciences, according to an Aug. 29 email.&nbsp; CAS Dean Dr. Mahmoud Anabtawi explained that a series of rules have been put in place for&nbsp; anyone entering classrooms, labs, and offices to ensure everyone&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-cas","9":"tag-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}