What we are doing to prepare for a safe semester for students?

On Campus Preparations

  • Rearranging classrooms, labs, offices, and common spaces to accommodate CDC guidance
  • Posting occupancy ratings, physical distance guidance, sanitizing and hygiene, and required face mask use signage across the university
  • Reducing and redirecting accessibility to classrooms, offices, and public spaces
  • Moving business operations online or virtual
  • Creating procedures for organizing and managing large events to adhere to CDC guidance
  • Establishing protocols for Athletics’ game day management to adhere to CDC guidance
  • Adjusting transportation schedules and routes to accommodate movement restrictions
Front door of the welcome center

Managing COVID-19 Transmission

Spiral staircase in the Don K. Clark building
  • Securing cloth face masks to distribute (complimentary) to each student
  • Placing sanitizing and paper face mask stations throughout campus
  • Posting sneeze guards across campus
  • Establishing cleaning protocols for public spaces
  • Developing support for COVID-19-related student health and mental health concerns
  • Creating student testing and university contact tracing programs

Training and Education Preparations

  • Creating return-to-campus safety trainings for all students

  • Creating a weekly COVID-19 symptom-free certification process
  • Creating an approach to providing for COVID-19 continuous education
  • Establishing communication about where students can secure cleaning supplies and PPE
Front portion of the Agriculture and Business Multi-purpose building

Academic Preparations

  • Increasing online and hybrid course options
  • Establishing an electronic attendance mechanism
  • Securing loaner computer checkout vending machines

Student Experience and Support

  • Creating a student activities virtual programming plan
  • Creating a student ambassadors programs to help students make adjustments to COVID-19-related changes
  • Training staff to deal with COVID-19-related challenges

Residential Area Preparations

  • Coordinating staggered move in and out of residences to avoid physical contact
  • Creating quarantine and isolation protocols
  • Creating residence hall disinfecting protocols
  • Creating residence advisor self-quarantine protocols
  • Establishing disinfecting protocols, sanitizing stations, and personal protective equipment requirements
  • Adjusting room checks to aid student efforts to maintain clean/sanitized rooms
  • Posting space utilization guidelines within student residences
  • Creating a visitation protocol
Entrance to the University Square community

COVID-19-related Return-to-school Checklist for Students

  • Personal Protective Equipment: Gloves, masks (both cloth and paper), shields, mask-making instructions
  • Sanitizing wipes, spray disinfectants, portable hand sanitizers
  • Cleaning supplies with disinfectants that kill viruses
  • Thermometer
  • Tissues, toilet liners
  • Hand soap
  • Laptop or computer with camera and microphone
  • Personal immune system boosters