Dear All,
Following up on my prior email, on July 1 Purdue enacted its new changes to the Covid Policies. Our school will be following the changes implemented by the University effective immediately. The main change being no longer requiring masks
for vaccinated individuals in non-instructional spaces. These include research spaces, dining venues, the corec, offices, lobbies, libraries, etc.
Keep in mind, that this policy is still allowing certain social distancing policies to be in place along with other Protect Purdue measures when needed. This means attention must go to reading all the signs in a given space.
For unvaccinated individuals, masks are still
required in all indoor spaces. Though vaccination is not currently being required by Purdue, if you decide to not get vaccinated, beginning August 23 you will be opted into regular surveillance testing and understand that few campus activities may
be available to you. If you decide to get vaccinated in the future, please remember to provide Purdue with that information via the respective link below, so they no longer require the regular surveillance testing for you. Another thing to keep in mind, when
needing to eat or drink please continue to abide by the appropriate policy (found here). Remember that when in appropriate eating spaces masks should only be removed for a
brief period of about 15 minutes.
These policy changes are in line with the Protect Purdue Pledge that each and every one of us has agreed to. Violations of that pledge are still subject to disciplinary actions.
You may find the Purdue Covid Policy changes
HERE. An easy to follow explanation of the mask protocols may be found
HERE.
Again, masks are still required for all in instructional spaces regardless of vaccination status; this likely will not change until more of our Purdue community becomes vaccinated and
provides documentation of this to Purdue.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me as I am happy to assist. Thank you all for your time as well as your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Joshua
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Joshua Gonzalez
Operations Coordinator
(765) 494-4365 |
(765) 494-0805
From: Gonzalez, Joshua
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 7:31 AM
To: chme@ecn.purdue.edu
Subject: Research Space 100% Capacity
Importance: High
Dear All,
On behalf of the School, I would like to relay the University’s decision announced yesterday (see email below) regarding the use of all research spaces back to pre-Covid capacity. This measure will allow all Covid SOP constraints to be
rescinded, EXCEPT for the continue use of masks at all times in shared spaces (labs, grad offices, etc.) regardless of vaccination status. With this, research spaces such as grad offices will also be allowed to be opened at 100% occupancy. There
will also no longer be a need for any rotating schedules that research groups have implemented for Covid precautions for both labs and grad offices. All research related occupancy signs, along with Covid SOP signs have already been removed from appropriate
rooms.
Please remember that along with all this masks are still required for everyone at all times in shared spaces. In the days to come, new guidance will be issued regarding the use of face masks for non-instructional spaces, once
that is available I shall follow up with an update.
I would like to express appreciation to everyone for their amazing cooperation throughout this pandemic that allowed us to be able to get to this point and that much more closer to a sense of normalcy. We shall keep the momentum going to
the fall semester and beyond.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me. Thank you all for your time.
Sincerely,
Joshua
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Joshua Gonzalez
Operations Coordinator
(765) 494-4365 |
(765) 494-0805
From: purdueresearch@purdue.edu <purdueresearch@purdue.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:45 PM
Subject: Research Space 100% Capacity
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