We stay up for welcoming you again to campus!
We’re working exhausting, preparing that can assist you have as wholesome and secure a semester as attainable.
We acknowledge the challenges and struggles you might be persevering with to face in a time stuffed with unknowns. As we close to the one-year mark because the pandemic started, we now have seen you thrive and succeed via all of it. You proceed to do the best issues and attain your targets regardless of hurdles.
Although there’s nonetheless a option to go within the struggle in opposition to COVID-19, there’s hope on the horizon. Some at the moment are receiving vaccines, however the virus remains to be spreading. We should vigilantly adhere to the security protocols we developed within the fall—bodily distancing, face masks carrying, following gathering protocols and washing fingers—to guard our group as a lot as attainable.
We discovered a lot this fall, and we wish all to embrace what we discovered to make this spring semester profitable.
Please be assured that we’ll proceed to depend on public well being steerage and maintain everybody knowledgeable as situations evolve this season.
Spring Return to Campus City Corridor
Final week we hosted an internet city corridor to speak about particulars and expectations for spring semester. Should you missed it, you may watch the recording.
Spring Testing Program and Protocols
A key part of our spring plan is our twice-weekly obligatory spring testing program and up to date quarantine protocols for undergraduate college students.
Transfer-In and Commodores Care Interval
To assist the well being of our group and scale back the chance of COVID-19 transmission, all undergraduate college students returning for in-person lessons, whether or not they stay on or off campus, will take part within the Commodores Care period from Monday, Jan. 25, via Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Even you probably have a destructive take a look at consequence and are symptom-free, it’s worthwhile to keep away from social interactions and in-person actions. In the course of the Commodores Care interval, you can do the next:
- Go away your residence to attend in-person lessons.
- Choose up to-go meals or provides.
- Search medical consideration.
- Have interaction in out of doors actions that don’t contain shut contact, equivalent to strolling, mountain climbing or working.
All different college programming and scholar group actions can be digital.
In case you have a optimistic take a look at consequence or signs, you will need to observe the college’s quarantine and isolation requirements.
Off-campus college students should observe security protocols as properly. Should you stay with others however have your individual bed room, observe security protocols and keep away from shut interactions with these you share your condominium with. Should you share a bed room with one other particular person, observe security practices and solely work together together with your roommate.
Wanting Forward on the Spring Semester
We discovered a lot this fall and have used what we discovered to arrange for spring. A number of the actions and sources we hope you’ll entry to attach together with your fellow Commodores and assist your psychological and bodily well-being after the Commodores Care interval embrace:
- Going to the David Williams II Recreation and Wellness Heart. The middle is tenatively scheduled to reopen in early February after the Commodores Care interval for college kids. Although it should reopen in phases and the hours can be restricted, we all know this useful resource has been missed by college students. We stay up for welcoming you again to it.
- Spending time outdoors with your folks as daylight will get longer via the season.
- Hanging out with mates and classmates between lessons within the 5 heated out of doors tents.
- Taking part in informal meet-ups with a group of eight or fewer mates to go for a stroll, play Frisbee or take part in different actions.
- Scheduling extra check-ins with your folks to see how they’re doing.
As at all times, you will need to adhere to security protocols whereas taking part in these actions.
Private Journey
We all know chances are you’ll must journey in the course of the spring semester; nevertheless, we need to remind you that journey is solely allowed below sure situations and with permission.
- Should you want to depart the Nashville/Davidson County space in the course of the semester due to extenuating circumstances, equivalent to receiving medical remedies or attending a household marriage ceremony or funeral, you will need to full a travel request form not less than 72 hours earlier than the proposed journey.
- Requests can be reviewed, and you may be notified if the journey is permitted.
- Extra details about what you will need to do throughout authorised journey and as soon as you come back could be discovered on the Return to Campus website.
- Lack of compliance with these journey necessities will end in referrals to the Workplace of Scholar Accountability.
Gatherings
We encourage you to maintain making significant connections together with your fellow Commodores via casual meetups of eight or fewer individuals after Feb. 3.
- Once you spend time with others, do not forget that you will need to observe security protocols—together with face masks carrying and bodily distancing.
- Should you plan to have foods and drinks, everybody ought to keep bodily distance and take away their face masks/coverings solely quickly to eat and drink as wanted.
- No visitors are allowed in on-campus residences. As an alternative, socialize in frequent areas or outdoor when climate permits.
- Extra data could be discovered on the Return to Campus website.
Spring Return to Campus Acknowledgment Deadline is Jan. 25
Full the Spring Return to Campus Acknowledgment in Oracle Learning by Jan. 25 you probably have not achieved so already.
Your contributions to making a campus group that’s as wholesome and secure as attainable are immensely priceless, and you make a major distinction within the lives of the individuals round you.
Different Information and Updates
Jan. 7: Update on COVID-19 vaccines
Jan. 8: Message to undergraduate students on spring arrival; launch of Commodores Care period
Jan. 11: Message to undergraduate students on spring semester updates
Jan. 20: Graduate and professional student Return to Campus Update
Jan. 20: Faculty Return to Campus Update
Jan. 20: Staff Return to Campus Update
Jan. 20: Postdoc Return to Campus Update
Supply: www.vanderbilt.edu
