What we are doing to prepare for a safe semester for students?
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- Update university emergency contact information
- 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