What Students Should Know About Testing
Terry Lacey
laceytl at plattsburgh.edu
Mon Feb 8 12:54:41 UTC 2021
High Importance:Testing Information to Start and End Spring 2021 Semester
Dear Students,
This email contains important information about COVID-19 testing to start
and finish the spring semester. Please read through it today.
We are looking forward to a return to on-campus life and in-person
classrooms. We each have an obligation to care for each other and do what
is right. This includes weekly mandatory testing and daily health screening
that will serve to benefit all of us, which are detailed as follows:
*1. A Negative Test Is Required To Attend Classes Beginning Monday, Feb. 15*As
has been shared, you must have a negative COVID test in order to attend the
first day of on-campus classes. Alternatively, if you present proof of a
positive COVID diagnosis within the past three months, you will be
permitted to attend the first day of on-campus classes.
If you do not participate in the campus pooled testing or share a recent
test with the Health Center, your professor/s will be notified directly and
you cannot attend any in-person class for the first week. Furthermore, you
will not be permitted to attend any in-person class until the week
following your participation in pooled surveillance testing.
While our faculty members are asked to be flexible in response to student
requests when missing class in normal circumstances (e.g. - regular
illness, family conflicts), they are not required to provide alternative
learning for students who miss class because of student conduct violations.
On-campus pooled surveillance testing for COVID-19 will be conducted
Monday, Feb. 8 - Thursday, Feb. 11 for those needing to fulfill that
requirement. It will then be conducted Monday to Thursday each week
after. *More
details are online here* <https://www.plattsburgh.edu/covid-19/index.html>.
Documentation for students residing on campus should be sent to the Housing
Office (*housing at plattsburgh.edu <housing at plattsburgh.edu>)*. Students
residing off campus should email their documentation to the Student Health
and Counseling Center at *healthcenter at plattsburgh.edu*
<healthcenter at plattsburgh.edu>.
*2. Weekly Pooled Testing and Daily Health Screening Required All Semester
Long*
Everyone coming to campus this entire semester -- faculty, staff, students,
etc. -- must complete campus pooled surveillance testing and daily health
screening. Pooled testing will occur weekly for each person throughout the
spring semester. For your own health and safety, and for the benefit of all
members of the campus community, this must be done. It is also a
requirement of the student *Code of Conduct related to COVID
<https://www.plattsburgh.edu/_documents/student-conduct/covid-sanctioning-guidelines-in-scm-gcm-reflecting-chancellor-memo.pdf>*
. Please get in the habit of doing both the testing and screening, and
build this into your schedule. Here's also why it matters - when students
fail to participate, they will be subject to disciplinary actions that
include being suspended from classes and even expulsion from campus. More
specifically:
- If you fail to attend two scheduled pooled appointments during the
semester, without sufficient excuse, we are required to undertake
disciplinary action to enforce compliance. This can include interim
suspension, electronically deactivated card access, revoked parking passes,
towed vehicles, and a bar from attending classes. This will also include
notification directly to your professor/s that you cannot attend in-person
class/es for that week. Should you obtain a test elsewhere and submit
negative results, you may be permitted to return to class after the campus
has verified and processed it.
- If we learn of other violations of the rules associated with COVID-19
safety, you may lose access to campus facilities and/or campus housing.
Other disciplinary actions may be taken by the Student Conduct and/or Human
Resources Offices. And consistent with SUNY policy, students who are
partially or completely removed from the institution due to a violation are
not eligible for refunds.
*3. Don't Risk Your Semester*
These steps are fueled by our care for you and all students. Not taking
simple tests and completing forms collectively risks our safety and the
semester. We are doing our best to serve each student. We are also doing
our best to track compliance and testing. While it is possible a student
may slip through the cracks, we will catch up. And all of this is too
important to you, and too critical to your academic and personal success,
to risk.
Please do your part, for yourself, your friends and your campus. Looking
forward to welcoming you to campus.
Best,
R. Lizzie Wahab
(She, Her, Hers)s
Vice President
Enrollment Management & Student Success
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