Edward Waters College will work closely with our campus partners to deliver optimal service and aligned standards of health and safety protocols. The College is doing everything possible to accommodate as many students as possible, but we must do so in a manner that puts the health and safety of our students first. If you have not done so already, students are strongly advised to register for classes immediately. This will help the College to plan for the fall semester. A student with a fully online schedule may opt to attend the College remotely.
Student Life
EWC on-campus housing has been reduced by 50% through the conversion of all double room occupancy to single room occupancy in the residence halls for the 2020-2021 academic year. In order to ensure the health and safety of on-campus residents, no double occupancy will be available due to physical distancing guidelines. Occupancy protocols are as follows:
- The Office of Housing and Residence Life will work with Sodexo to include space indicators (tape) on the floors and throughout the residential communities.
- The Office of Housing and Residence Life will work with the Office of Communications and Marketing on appropriate signage throughout on-campus residential facilities to include best practices, hygienic protocols, capacity limitations, and “Do Not Enter” signs for students to use if the maximum number of people inside has reached capacity inside of a single space, including bathrooms.
- Students will be required to wear face coverings in the common areas of the buildings, but not in the privacy of their rooms.
- Students will use QR Codes to submit maintenance work orders to the Area Coordinators. Staff will coordinate with the student on a date/time to physically inspect the Work Order requested. The Area Coordinators will follow up with the students via EWC email and submit the work order into the Sodexo maintenance system.
It is understood that many students with expressed interest in EWC student housing may be placed on a waitlist given the adaptive housing protocols of single occupancy. Though the institution is working to acquire additional student housing in an off-campus setting, note the College will not have sufficient on-campus spaces to meet the demand of all students who are waitlisted. Students need to know the following:
- It is unlikely that waitlisted students will receive a housing assignment.
- Consider visiting Apartments.com to explore the rental communities near EWC and in the surrounding community.
To increase the likelihood of obtaining a space in on-campus housing, students must timely financially clear and register for fall courses.
Residence Hall Student Engagement will initially consist of small groups of digital and virtual meeting platforms, moving to 10 or less students with the potential to increase capacity as continual review of COVID-19 throughout the phased approach. Staff is currently engaging students and their families through virtual experiences this summer. A new hierarchy of needs for virtual learning model (staff training and residential education) has been created to ensure all residential staff are aware of the COVID-19 safety guidelines and contributing to positive student experiences. Housing will continue to leverage technology (EWC email, EWC website, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) to communicate with current and potential students about the required COVID-19 Education Module to be completed prior to staff and student’s arrival on campus, but no later than August 17, 2020. Information sharing will occur in all residential facilities with posted information in common areas and entry points concerning COVID-19 prevention.
Students will be restricted to their assigned residence halls. Students cannot visit or move from hall to hall, nor can they receive on- or off-campus visitors. Enhanced cleaning protocols continue to be implemented for common areas and restrooms. Sodexo, as monitored by Division of Finance, Administration, and Business Innovation, will execute the same deep cleaning strategies and more frequent disinfectant of high touch areas as provided in campus facilities (i.e. bathrooms, common areas).
Edward Waters College’s hospitality partner is committed to providing a safe means for dining services to our students. Food will be available in a “grab-and-go,” take out method, with students having access to the cafeteria to pick-up breakfast, lunch and dinner. Students will not be allowed to sit in the cafeteria, Student Union Building or congregate in surrounding common areas outside of the building. Pre-order and pick-up options will also be available for Tiger Stripe Café. If on-campus housing residents have been relocated to quarantine housing, temporary meals will be provided to these students by delivery for the duration of their isolation/quarantine. Hours of operation are:
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Monday – Friday |
Saturday & Sunday | ||
| Breakfast
Lunch Dinner |
7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
Brunch
Dinner |
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
Regarding employee and/or student transportation, only essential transit of College constituents will be approved per the President’s authority (i.e. athletics). Such transport will require all to wear face coverings and avoid touching surfaces with your hands. Upon disembarking, riders are asked to wash their hands or use hand sanitizers as part of the College-wide prevention regimen.
“If there is anything more reprehensible than the practice of discriminiation upon a people because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, it is for the people discriminated against to accept it without protest or resistance. It is an evidence of an utter lack of self-respect, the most priceless possession an individual or group can have, without which there can be no human dignity.”
– A. Philip Randolph, 1959
Asa Philip Randolph was a groundbreaking leader, organizer, and social activist who championed equitable labor rights for African American communities, becoming one of the most impactful civil rights and social justice leaders of the 20th century. His activism spanned 60 years, and included the organization of the largest labor union for Black workers in the United States and the coordination of two Marches on Washington (1941 and 1963).
Randolph spent the formative years of his early life in Jacksonville, Florida. He was born on April 15, 1889, in Crescent City, Florida, to an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, the Rev. James William Randolph, and his wife, Elizabeth Robinson Randolph. In 1891, when he was three years old, his family moved to Jacksonville. He attended Edward Waters College (a Historically Black College founded in 1866) from ages fourteen to sixteen before transferring to the Cookman Institute (a Historically Black educational institute founded in 1872 and located in Jacksonville), from which he graduated as valedictorian in 1907.
In 1911, recognizing the constraints that racial segregation placed on his life in his native Florida, Randolph left Jacksonville for New York City. Initially he hoped for a life on the stage but redirected his talents to issues of fairness and equity in employment and civic life. During World War I, Randolph faced formidable odds as he worked to unionize African American shipyard workers and elevator operators. During this time, along with his friend and collaborator Chandler Owen, Randolph edited and published the Messenger magazine between 1917 and 1925, during which it served as a promotional vehicle for the Harlem Renaissance.
Randolph’s career as a labor leader took a new turn when he became the first president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which by 1937 would become the first official African American labor union. After his victories in the arena of organized labor, in the 1940s, Randolph focused his attention on the larger goal of ending racial discrimination in government defense factories and desegregating the armed forces, both accomplished through presidential decrees. Becoming involved in additional civil rights work, he was a principal organizer of the proposed March on Washington in 1941, and the more famous 1963 March on Washington during which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
On May 16, 1979, at age 90, Mr. Randolph passed away. He was cremated, and his ashes were interred at the A. Philip Randolph Institute in Washington, D.C.
There are several sites in Jacksonville that pay tribute to the legacy of A. Philip Randolph. He is the namesake of the A. Philip Randolph Academies of Technology, A. Philip Randolph Boulevard (formerly Florida Avenue), and the adjoining A. Philip Randolph Park on Jacksonville’s east side.
August 31, 2019 07:00:00 PM
The Edward Waters College Emergency Management Team continues to closely monitor Hurricane Dorian, which is expected to be a Category 4 hurricane upon landfall in Florida.
Due to the easterly trajectory of the storm and its current speed, it has been determined that movement of the remaining on-campus students from their residence halls to the JWJ facility will not occur until further notice. Cafeteria hours will operate regular weekend hours on Sunday, September 1st and adjusted hours for Monday, September 2nd. Brunch will be from 11:00a.m. – 1:00p.m. and dinner will be from 5:00p.m. – 6:00p.m.
Be advised, you will receive official communication from the College via email, social media, the EWC Website, and Tiger Alert throughout the duration of the storm. We will continue to monitor weather conditions and update you accordingly.
The Mission of Residence Life and Housing is to provide a living learning experience that that supports all residential EWC students. We strive to create a safe wholesome living and learning environment that is conducive to the overall development of our students that aids in their academic success, leadership development, positive decision making and responsible citizenship. Services are provided to our students in a friendly, courteous and efficient manner which helps to promote academic success.
Mr. Quentin McBeth
Assistant Director of Housing Operations
904-470-8870
August 16, 2019
10:00am
Milne Auditorium
*All incoming Freshmen students are mandated to be in attendance for this occasion. Freshmen female attire is black skirts and white blouse. Male Freshmen attire is black dress pants, white collar shirt and neck tie.