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Salem State is a mask-flexible campus
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Spring and Summer Semester Update
In order to protect yourself and help us keep our community safe this spring, please:
- Utilize the free iHealth, rapid antigen COVID tests available for pickup for students, staff, and faculty during testing hours on North Campus Dining Commons. It is recommended to keep rapid home COVID tests on hand to self-perform should you develop any new symptoms or have an exposure. Please stay home when sick until you've received a negative COVID test and report any positive results to 978.542.3240 and CoVerified. PCR testing will continue to be available, you can schedule on CoVerified. Read additional rapid antigen testing guidelines and instructions for reviewing results and uploading to CoVerified.
- Access the booster if you are eligible. This is now required as part of the vaccine mandate.
- Get tested before you return to campus (within 72 hours of your move-in, class or work on campus) and upload your test result into CoVerified. Feel free to come to campus to access testing, prior to your return to on campus life. Testing will be available on campus four days a week during the semester.
- Stay home if you are sick, if you have been told to quarantine or if you have tested positive. Please upload this information into CoVerified and work with our contact tracers until you are cleared to return.
- Familiarize yourself with our Spring and Summer 2022 Health and Safety Protocols.
Life on Campus
- The guest policy will be limited at the beginning of the semester. Once conditions improve housing will re-evaluate and reinstate the guest and visitor policy.
- If a residential student needs to quarantine or isolate, they must work with contact tracers and relocate off campus for quarantine or isolation as identified in their departure plan. Students may request to quarantine or isolate on campus at Bates if relocating off campus presents a significant hardship due to extenuating circumstances.
Once conditions improve, SSU will welcome in person-activities with standard health and safety protocols in place such as:
- Room reservations and occupancy limits
- Indoor mask mandate
- CoVerified checks and attendance
We will continue to expect 3 feet of physical distancing in the classroom. Offices and meeting spaces should maintain 6 feet of physical distance as much as possible, and not exceed 75% occupancy.
Non-SSU community members are welcome to access campus.
- Visitors must follow our protocols including mask mandate and know not to come to campus if they are experiencing symptoms or have known exposures.
- They should be encouraged to either be fully vaccinated or access testing within a week of coming to campus.
- They can be encouraged to access free testing in Salem.
- We will not use attestation forms. Instead, the host or department should track attendance.
- Salem State staff and student staff will not be required to verify the vaccination status of visitors, given that SSU already has a vaccine mandate in place.
- Domestic travel is allowed for vaccinated individuals – faculty/staff, please follow typical travel approval process. Access testing before and after travel, and follow masking protocols.
- International travel is discouraged and will be reviewed on case-by-case basis with approval needed from academic affairs or area VP and Risk Management.
- Anyone returning to campus after international travel will be required to upload proof of testing into CoVerified 48-24 hours before travel and at least 72 hours after travel (arriving back in MA) and within 1 week of returning to campus.
- Faculty and staff should contact Ezekiel Holt with questions. Students should contact counseling and health.
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