Announcements

Join us at 10 a.m. Central NEXT Monday, January 24, for a webinar about students loans and the exciting changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program that will benefit ministry professionals!

Register today!

Busy on Monday mornings in January? We will record the session and post it for all students!

Questions? Contact Arlene Flancher of the Stewardship Leaders Program: aflancher001@luthersem.edu.

Reported employee cases: 0
Reported student cases: 5
Students in quarantine or isolation: 6

Reported cases only include students and employees who have been on campus within a period of time during which they may have been contagious. According to the CDC this includes two days prior to the onset of symptoms or a positive test.

If you have recently tested positive for COVID-19, or if you are an unvaccinated individual who has been in close contact with someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19 (close contact is defined as being within 6 feet of that person for 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period), please report that to the appropriate person. For employees, that person is Michael Morrow (mmorrow001@luthersem.edu). Students should contact David Fenrick; email deanofstudents@luthersem.edu, or text 651-300-3537.

Contact Tracing Protocol

When an on-campus case of COVID-19 is reported, that person is first asked to stay off-campus and quarantine in accordance with CDC guidelines. In addition, the seminary takes two steps for contact tracing:

1. The Minnesota Department of Health is notified, per guidelines for institutions of higher education

2. The person reporting the case is asked to identify “close contacts”; the close contacts identified are notified of the exposure and asked to follow CDC guidelines for testing and quarantining (quarantine applies only to close contacts who are unvaccinated).

Online Chapel will return next week with a very special chapel service in observation of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day. Professor Amy Marga is preaching.

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
11 a.m. Central on Zoom
The Zoom link is in the community announcements email.

Following chapel, the student council is hosting a Zoom conversation for students to participate and interact with a theme of “Wade in the Water” and ABIDE. Join when you are able at 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Central. The Zoom link is in the community announcements email.

Please note that Wednesday is the only day that we will have chapel next week.

Gullixson Hall and Bockman Hall will be locked today through Monday, January 17. Those who need to access these buildings may use their IDs, as they would at other times when buildings are locked.

Luther Seminary is closed on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday. A decision will be made in the meantime as to whether we lock or unlock these buildings after Monday.

OCC will be open regular hours.

As part of our regular maintenance cycle Moodle will be rebooted early Sunday morning. We anticipate an interruption of service of no longer than five minutes.

Gullixson Hall and Bockman Hall will be locked today through Monday, January 17. A decision will be made in the meantime as to whether we lock or unlock these buildings after Monday. OCC will be open regular hours.