Effective September 27, 2021, the University of Rochester will require all faculty and staff to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. This requirement to be vaccinated supersedes all previously communicated deadlines regarding vaccination reporting and testing for unvaccinated employees, including the vaccination-related information included in the message below.<\/p>\n
Read the most recent update<\/a><\/p>\n As guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and from New York State continues to be updated, the Coronavirus University Restart Team (CURT) and senior leadership have updated the guidance for the fall on the University\u2019s non-Medical Center campuses.<\/p>\n Currently, Monroe County’s rate of COVID infections is \u201chigh,\u201d according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> (CDC), meaning wearing a mask indoors in public and shared spaces will maximize individuals\u2019 protection from the Delta variant. These guidelines will be updated as additional CDC, county and New York State guidance is distributed, so please check back regularly to the COVID-19 Resource Center<\/a> site. For the latest Medical Center updates, see the URMC Intranet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UPDATE: August 26, 2021 Effective September 27, 2021, the University of Rochester will require all faculty and staff to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. This requirement to be vaccinated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[996],"class_list":["post-70952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-aug-2021"],"acf":{"external":"","hide_featured_image":false,"related":"show_related","style":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"card_grid","anchor":"","css_class":"title-line t-below t-navy centered max-text-center","title":" Here are some of the ways the campuses will operate to start the fall semester. Click on the topics boxes below or scroll down the page to see more details.<\/p>","background_color":"#FFFFFF","width":"width-large","columns":"4","cards":[{"card_title":"Explore topics<\/h2>","description":"
Face masking<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#face-masking","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
Vaccination requirements<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#vaccination","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
Dr. Chat Bot<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#dr-chat-bot","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
Shared spaces and facility density<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#shared-spaces","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
Visitors and guests<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#guests","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
Campus dining<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#dining","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
Events (including Eastman and Memorial Art Gallery)<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#events","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
糖心传媒 and instruction<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#academics","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
Research<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#research","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
Travel<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#travel","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"
Plan for tracking and responding to infection surge<\/h5>","card_text":"","card_background_color":"#f4f4f4","card_hover_color":"#283faf","card_link":{"title":"","url":"#monitoring","target":""},"card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"face-masking","css_class":"","title":"
Face masking<\/h3>","content":"On August 10, 2021, the University of Rochester reinstated a face-masking requirement for everyone indoors on the University\u2019s campuses and properties, regardless of vaccination status. This is intended to be a temporary safety measure until COVID transmission rates have declined sufficiently in Monroe County, and if COVID-19 case numbers remain low at the University; visit the University\u2019s COVID-19 Dashboard<\/a> for updates on confirmed cases on all University campuses.\n\nAll students, faculty, staff, visitors, and tenants\u2014including those who are fully vaccinated\u2014must wear a face mask while indoors on any of the University\u2019s campuses and properties. For full details on the face mask requirements on the Medical Center campus, see the COVID-19\/Redesigned intranet portal<\/a> (URMC credentials required).\n\nThis University-wide face-masking mandate differs from policies in place during the last academic year in that physical distancing is not currently part of the requirement.","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"vaccination","css_class":"","title":"
Vaccination requirements<\/h3>","content":"Employees need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to frequent regular COVID testing and stricter safety protocols, including daily symptom tracking and masking indoors at all times.\n\nTo implement this requirement and to manage public health at the University, all faculty and staff, including those who are working in a hybrid model or remotely, are required to report their vaccination status by completing the online COVID Vaccine Participation Form<\/a>.","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"dr-chat-bot","css_class":"","title":"
Dr. Chat Bot<\/h3>","content":"Dr. Chat Bot is a brief daily health screening for COVID-19 symptoms that helps to keep the University community healthy and helps University Health Service (UHS) closely monitor health and wellness on campus. It is completed on a smartphone, tablet, or computer.\n\nDr. Chat Bot participation is once again required<\/a> for all faculty, staff, and students.\n\nTo access the Dr. Chat Bot screening tool, all faculty, staff, and students should use this link<\/a>.","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"shared-spaces","css_class":"","title":"
Shared spaces and facility density<\/h3>","content":"Fully vaccinated students, faculty, and staff who are alone and not in a public or shared space may unmask. The following guidelines assume adherence to appropriate masking for everyone:\n
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Visitors and guests<\/h3>","content":"Visitors and guests are allowed on the University\u2019s campuses since June 1, 2021. The current visitor policy allows for all individuals regardless of vaccination status to visit campus. When inside any building on a campus, all individuals must wear a face mask, and anyone who is not vaccinated on campus should wear a mask outdoors when attending crowded settings, events, and gatherings.\n\nCampus units hosting a minor as a visitor for a program or camp should ensure health screening questions are asked of their visitors. For units hosting visiting students or scholars from outside the US, reference guidance on the Global Engagement website<\/a>.","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"dining","css_class":"","title":"
Campus dining<\/h3>","content":"Campus Dining locations are operating at full occupancy. For indoor dining, some limited dining space will be available for those who wish to be physically distant. When eating in Rochester Dining locations or other public or shared spaces on campus, everyone should remain masked up to the point of starting a snack, or meal, remove their face mask to eat, and then re-mask when done.","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"events","css_class":"","title":"
Events (including Eastman and Memorial Art Gallery)<\/h3>","content":"As of August 1, 2021, all non-academic indoor and outdoor campus events and gatherings will be allowed, per New York State guidelines, and will adhere to normal approval processes. All participants will need to wear masks indoors.\n\nEvents off campus do not need pre-approval, provided that these events follow all state guidelines and remain under New York State social gather limits. For larger scale events, you may choose to install the following requirements: Fully vaccinated participants must show proof of vaccination via Excelsior Pass, UR Pass, paper form, UR COVID vaccination sticker etc.","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"academics","css_class":"","title":"
糖心传媒 and instruction<\/h3>","content":"In the classroom, fully vaccinated instructors who can maintain greater than 6 feet distance from all class participants can unmask while instructing; class attendees must remain masked and the instructor should re-mask when class instruction is complete.\n\nThe normal classroom occupancy numbers can be used for classes. There are no requirements for windows to be opened or fans to be installed in instructional spaces. All HVAC system modifications with filters or increased air exchanges made earlier in the pandemic remain in place.\n\nRemote learning will be available for international students outside the United States who cannot physically arrive to be present on campus.","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"research","css_class":"","title":"
Research<\/h3>","content":"Laboratories and other research facilities can operate in-person and at or near their normal capacity. All individuals will be required to wear masks while working in a lab with others. Academic and research visitors continue to be allowed on campus.","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"travel","css_class":"","title":"
Travel<\/h3>","content":"All University travelers\u2014students, faculty and staff\u2014regardless of destination or origin, are required to follow the current New York State travel requirements<\/a>.\n\nEveryone traveling internationally should review the entry requirements of the destination and considerations for an intended return to the US. If your visa has expired, your return trip could be delayed as many US Consular offices remain closed or with limited services available (look up visa wait times by location<\/a>). Additionally, travelers from certain areas are subject to US entry restrictions, which can change with little notice (see State Department\u2019s summary of\u00a0coronavirus travel proclamations<\/a> and national interest exceptions). Students and employees on visas sponsored by the University should contact the International Services Office (ISO)<\/a>\u00a0prior to travel to secure any needed travel authorizations for visa purposes.\n\nAll University travelers traveling outside the US should register their travel with the University\u2019s travel registry<\/a> to ensure institutional communication and travel\u00a0assistance coverage while abroad.\n
Faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students<\/h4>\n
University-funded and grant-funded travel<\/strong><\/h5>\nUniversity business travel, whether University-funded or grant-funded, must follow standard University Business Travel processes. See the Business Expense and Travel Reimbursement (BETR) website<\/a> for more information.\n\nFor international travel requests, whether University-funded or grant-funded, a risk consultation provided by the\u00a0Office for Global Engagement<\/a> is required. Completion of the Workday Spend Authorization prior to travel will route essential travel requests to the appropriate individuals. Additional information is available on the\u00a0Business Expense and Travel Reimbursement website<\/a>. Additionally, for University-funded international travel, pre-approval from a Cabinet-level officer is required.\n
Personal travel<\/h5>\nFaculty, staff, post docs, and graduate students traveling should closely follow New York State\u2019s travel guidance<\/a> before making travel plans, and should be mindful of any current testing and quarantine requirements as part of this.","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"monitoring","css_class":"","title":"
Plan for tracking and responding to infection surge<\/h3>","content":"The University will follow CDC, New York State, and Monroe County guidance as warnings of a COVID surge in Monroe County or among the University community become apparent, The CURT and the University Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) will continue to coordinate University planning.\u00a0 These groups will respond to significant changes with consideration of additional control interventions (e.g., limitations on gatherings, limitation on in-person instruction, shutdown certain operations or areas) and\/or enhanced surveillance (e.g. asymptomatic testing).","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"}]},"yoast_head":"\n