People head through the Sample Gate at Indiana University Tuesday with tulips in bloom. (Rich Janzaruk / Herald-Times)
Lauren Robel is sure residential education at Indiana University Bloomington will resume. Eventually.
The provost’s annual state of the campus address was largely a review of the COVID-19 response. It was also heavy on praise, with Robel singling out several people by name in the speech that was more than 4,600 words.
Plans for a belated graduation celebration, as well as an expectation that things will return to normal, were mentioned briefly at the end.
With all in-person campus events postponed or canceled through the end of July, the provost’s address was expected to be broadcast live online beginning at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Technical difficulties prevented that from happening, said Chuck Carney, IU spokesman, in an email.
Instead, the text of the speech was to be posted on the provost’s website. A video of Robel reading the speech was to be posted online once it was ready, Carney said in the email.
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