Dear Student Clubs and Student Associations,
It comes with sincere regret that we must inform all of you that the University of Manitoba COVID-19 Recovery Steering Committee (CRSC) has mandated student-led initiatives / activities that takes place both ON and/or OFF-campus to follow COVID-19 protocols in-place from the University of Manitoba. This will likely mean a lot of delays for planned student activities for both on and off-campus if you have not checked in with us regarding how COVID-19 will affect your plans.
We understand this will disappoint many of you that want to come together for the Fall 2021 term to socialize and bond with your peers, friends, communities, and the overall UMSU community after over a year of lockdown. And we at UMSU highly recognize the value and importance of these bonds and initiatives that you all serve to the UMSU community. Behind-the-scenes we have been working tirelessly by communicating with many key individuals and organizations regarding the protocols for hosting in-person activities for both on and off-campus for Fall 2021 term as well as for Winter 2022 term. This information is detailed here: https://umsu.ca/student-clubs-associations/club-exec-portal/covid19/. It is really long but this is the red tape that is in-place from the MANY regulatory bodies that oversee everyone.
The one thing to take away from this is that hosting in-person activities is POSSIBLE to accomplish for Fall 2021 but it requires more time and effort than usual in terms of hosting activities in the past. To repeat and to be clear, you are able to host in-person activities for Fall 2021 but you need to put in more time and effort than usual to gain approvals.
We all see your passion for wanting to come back and host in-person activities with everyone and deeply value this passion. This is why we provided all of you the information above that is necessary for all of you to succeed in this very unstable environment that changes daily. For us, we are confident this information will not change much but be prepared for changes anyways as updates roll in.
Thank you for your engagement and desire to host in-person initiatives. We all have been wanting to come back in-person for a long time and understand how much you all want this.
Until then, please watch for our emails and our public announcements for clubs at: https://umsu.ca/news/category/umsu-clubs-admin/
Thank you for your attention and engagement.
Truly, we sincerely thank you for your attention.
Best Regards,
UMSU Clubs Administration