Although the COVID-19 pandemic has canceled many popular events at Mercer, the university has still managed to take control of the situation by adapting to safety protocols. One event Mercer was able to continue holding was its annual Presidential Scholars Weekend Jan. 22-23.
The event was hosted in the fall in previous years but was pushed back to the spring in an effort to better adapt to the pandemic.
Potential Mercerians and their families attended the event in limited numbers in an effort to safely mobilize during the weekend while still having an enjoyable experience.
The Mercer admissions team worked to implement safety precautions during the event such as separating the overall experience into three smaller, in-person sessions, removing the usual evening networking portion, requiring masks, enforcing proper spacing during assemblies and meals, doing temperature checks, only allowing one guest per student and administering regular cleanings after each in-person session.