Covid Policy Update

This Covid Policy Update came to my email box on August 29. The general idea is that we are relaxing some of the stricter rules from the quarantine days, but we still want to keep you and everyone else in the campus community healthy. Here are the basics:

At this time, there are no university wide COVID-19 mandates, though there could be some program-specific rules.
Vaccination: yes, please. The Ashland County Health Department offers free Covid vaccine, and the website gives times and places.
If you feel sick: Contact the Student Health Center via phone 419-289-5200 or email at healthcenter@ashland.edu and plan on a minimum of 5 days of self-isolation (10 if you still feel sick). If possible, they want you to return home, but accommodations are possible if that doesn’t work.
If you have been exposed but aren’t sick, they still want you to mask up for ten days.
And all the usual precautions: hand-washing, ventilation, reasonable social distancing.

Two notes from last year:

As a campus, Ashland actually did much better than the surrounding county at controlling Covid. All of that masking and hand-washing really did help.
My policy for excused absences is very generous. If you are sick, just let me know, and if there’s a quiz on a day you are out sick, I will forgive that too.

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