[BoulderCouncilHotline] Re: Follow-up to CU COVID Presentation of 9/1/2020

[Young, Mary]

Dear Frances,

It has been two weeks since I made the request below, I hope that you have the requested data and are planning to respond. My apologies if you have sent it and I missed it.

Cases, as you know, have reached exponential levels in Boulder County (case data plotted log scale attached) since your presentation to Council on Septemer 1. Many of the cases appear to be related to CU students, but we do not really know without looking at data disaggregated by students, faculty, staff and just as importantly, by race and ethnicity.

We know that Black and Latino communities have born the brunt of this pandemic and, it is my hope, that the University understands this and is addressing any disparities within your purview.

Last week you wrote to me with the happy news regarding the Los Seis sculpture in front of TB-1.


"The university recognizes that the Los Seis de Boulder sculpture has played an important role in deepening our collective understanding of a tragic chapter of university and Colorado history that continues to resonate with Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and Latino/Latinx students, faculty and staff, and that it has contributed to greater community engagement and dialogue about diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism."

I hope that your statement above can be put into action by providing data that would uncover disparities and make the engagement and dialogue referred to in your statement more than words in a press release.

Thank you.

We're all in this together...six feet apart.

In solidarity,

Mary Dolores Young
Boulder City Council
303-501-2439

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"All ethics ... rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts..." - Aldo Leopold


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From: Young, Mary
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 4:04 PM
To: frances.draper at colorado.edu <frances.draper at colorado.edu>
Cc: HOTLINE <HOTLINE at bouldercolorado.gov>
Subject: Follow-up to CU COVID Presentation of 9/1/2020

Dear Frances,

Thank you and your colleagues at the University of Colorado for your continued transparency and sharing of information regarding your opening of this fall semester.

Last week, I indicated that I had more questions and would share them at a later time. What I have are follow-up requests.

I would like to see your data on COVID testing and positive test results disaggregated by race and ethnicity separately for students, faculty and front line staff. It would be helpful to include rate of testing and total number of tests as well as percentages for each (students, faculty, front line staff). I do understand that off campus students are not being tested and that many faculty members are teaching mostly remotely.

Should your data show disparities similar to what what Boulder County Public Health presented, please summarize your strategies for addressing them.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you again.

We're all in this together...six feet apart.

In solidarity,

Mary Dolores Young
Boulder City Council
303-501-2439

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"All ethics ... rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts..." - Aldo Leopold

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