Compiled and archived by Anna Pasquantonio and Lavender VandeWal

Sponsored by the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking, Critically Thinking About our COVID Stories was a day of webinars that allowed RIT faculty, staff, and students to discuss how COVID has affected their experience at RIT. With sessions from 9am to 6:30pm, it was a full day of conversations and presentations related to learning, teaching, and existing at RIT during the pandemic. 

To ensure this day was well documented, the head of this project, Jennifer Schneider, asked two students to take notes on each session and archive it, which you are seeing here. These students are Anna Pasquantonio, and Lavender Vandewal. Anna is a museum studies major, bringing her expertise on archiving to this project. Lavender is a humanities, computing, and design major, whose interdisciplinary work gives them unique insight.

Together, Anna and Lavender have outlined three of the session they felt were particularly impactful–– Beyond Rochester, Navigating Change and Work/Life Balance, and Combating Misinformation. These sessions offered powerful and truly beneficial information to all those in attendance and the articles will share some of the wisdom from that day.

Check out the posts under the ‘critical thinking’ tab to learn more.