Dear undergraduates,
We are enthusiastic about starting the brand new faculty 12 months with in-person courses and occasions. As you agree into your fall housing assignments managed by Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE) we’d like to supply tips on the best way to share residential house responsibly so we will maintain everybody as wholesome as doable. More data is supplied under, and on our student COVID-19 website.
Sharing house responsibly
COVID-positive undergraduates at the moment are isolating in place, as famous in our August 8 message. This means you could be sharing a room or house with somebody who’s COVID constructive.
Take a COVID speedy check instantly in case your roommate or house mate exams constructive, after which re-test once more each three days till 5 days after everybody you reside with exams detrimental. Review this guidance for extra data.
If you check constructive, college sources accessible to you embody medical care and meals. R&DE offers undergraduates who’re in isolation on account of COVID-19 and who complete the steps outlined here the flexibility to order meals by way of UberEats.
If you or your roommate exams constructive, take the next precautions:
- Wear face coverings as a lot as doable.
- Keep home windows open as a lot as doable.
- Wash or sanitize your arms usually.
- Avoid sharing private objects.
If you or your house mate exams constructive, take these extra precautions:
- Stay inside your bedrooms with doorways closed if doable.
- Avoid coming into the lavatory inside quarter-hour of others.
- Disinfect the lavatory and kitchen as usually as doable.
- Eat in separate rooms.
Temporary different housing could also be accessible for college kids who’ve vital well being situations (e.g., college students present process most cancers chemotherapy). If you have got a vital well being situation and you’ve got been instructed by your medical care staff to not share a dwelling house with a COVID-positive particular person, contact Student Support.
COVID reminders from earlier messages
- Assemble your individual first support equipment with over-the-counter medicines akin to fever reducers and decongestants. Be positive to incorporate a thermometer.
- New arrivals ought to check on Day 0 (arrival day) and Day 5. Rapid and Color check kits shall be supplied for gratis at R&DE Student Housing check-in tables throughout move-in (Color is a lab check with ends in 24-72 hours; here’s more information).
- Additional speedy check kits will proceed to be accessible for gratis on the Arrillaga Family Dining Commons (AFDC). Color check kits can be found for pickup here.
- Masking shall be required in residential frequent areas; lecture rooms (besides whereas talking); in healthcare services; and on Marguerite buses.
Monkeypox data
We have made preparations to care for college kids who report testing constructive for monkeypox, which spreads by way of shut, private, skin-to-skin contact. Students with signs or constructive check outcomes ought to contact Vaden Health Services for medical care and to study extra about different campus sources. Although Vaden doesn’t have Monkeypox vaccine right now, college students can go to this Stanford Health Care site to study extra about registering for county vaccination clinics.
Resources for our communities
We are wanting ahead to seeing all of you in just a few quick weeks. Fall is a really thrilling time. It may be difficult, too. Check out these Resources for Our Communities and the Residential & Dining Enterprises web site to study in regards to the companies, steering and extra accessible to all Stanford college students. If you have got any private questions, please attain out to us here.
Sincerely,
Susie Brubaker-Cole
Vice Provost for Student Affairs
Mona Hicks
Senior Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Students
Shirley J. Everett
Senior Associate Vice Provost, Residential & Dining Enterprises
Senior Advisor to the Provost on Equity and Inclusion