SU to scale back COVID-19 procedures for summer

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Syracuse College’s COVID Venture Administration Workplace will halt operations efficient Might 23 and the college won’t replace the COVID-19 dashboard for the summer time beginning Friday, Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie stated Tuesday in a campus-wide e-mail.

Pupil considerations and inquiries associated to COVID-19 will now undergo The Barnes Middle at The Arch, the e-mail acknowledged. The workplace, which beforehand performed COVID-19 contact tracing, will transition contact tracing to the self-disclosure methodology used all through New York state, in line with the e-mail.

Haynie additionally detailed adjustments associated to COVID-19 testing, masking, isolation and vaccination protocols on campus in addition to adjustments in journey coverage within the e-mail.

Testing providers that had been obtainable all through the 2021-22 school year at each the Kimmel Eating Corridor testing heart and the Dome won’t be obtainable through the summer time beginning Might 23, Haynie stated. He inspired college students to hunt COVID-19 testing on the Barnes Middle in the event that they show signs.

SU may also droop its random surveillance testing for the summer time months, however will proceed its wastewater surveillance testing program. The e-mail didn’t specify if or when testing on the Dome and Kimmel Eating Corridor testing heart, in addition to random surveillance testing, will resume.

Solely college students residing in college housing through the summer time months may have entry to quarantine housing over the summer time, Haynie stated. College students residing off campus will probably be liable for their very own isolation preparations, in line with the e-mail.

The college will enable journey for college functions to freely resume on Might 23, Haynie stated. In July 2021, SU adopted an interim journey security coverage to permit non-essential home journey. Worldwide journey is at present topic to the college’s Travel Safety policy, he stated.

SU will proceed to make use of its four-tier masking framework over the summer time, Haynie added. As of Might 17, the college is at a “BLUE” stage masking tier.

“I wish to once more categorical my gratitude for the cooperation and suppleness of our college students, college and employees, who dedicated to the general public well being safeguards obligatory to keep up a sturdy residential educational expertise over the previous 12 months,” he stated.