Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff have a few options regarding COVID-19 testing/vaccination prior to the start of the Fall 2021 semester:
- Upload your COVID-19 vaccination records
- If you tested positive for COVID-19 and our contact tracing team was aware, you don’t need to take any further action. Based on the date of your confirmed COVID-19 test, the COVID-19 response team will contact you via email if any further testing is required.
- If we did not know about your positive COVID-19 status, please upload your positive PCR test results or a positive antibody test to this eForm.
- If you choose not to be vaccinated and have not had a positive COVID-19 test or positive antibody test, you must have a negative COVID-19 test 72 hours prior to the start of classes on Monday, August 23.
- If you choose not to be vaccinated and have not had a positive COVID-19 test or positive antibody test, you will be a part of our random COVID testing protocols for the academic year.
Students have a couple of options regarding COVID-19 testing/vaccination prior to the start of the Fall 2021 semester:
- Upload your COVID-19 vaccination records
- If you attended CMU last year and tested positive for COVID-19 and our contact tracing team was aware, you don’t need to take any further action. Based on the date of your confirmed COVID-19 test, the COVID-19 response team will contact you via email if any further testing is required.
- If you were not at CMU, or if we did not know about your positive COVID-19 status, please upload your positive PCR test results or a positive antibody test to this eForm.
- If you choose not to be vaccinated and have not had a positive COVID-19 test or positive antibody test, you must have a negative COVID-19 test 72 hours prior to move-in for those living on campus and 72 hours before the start of classes for everyone else.
Student's completing clinical experiences and internships with community partners may need proof of vaccination. Academic Departments will communicate with students about any additional requirements.
Face coverings are no longer required in the classroom, at CMU events or for CMU employees while at work. Designated employees who regularly interact with guests, visitors and/or customers are encouraged to continue to wear masks indoors when interacting with members of the public and distancing cannot be achieved. Campus visitors and vendors are encouraged to wear masks when entering, exiting and moving about an indoor space.
We ask that all members of the campus community practice mindful masking, and respect that many in the campus community will choose to continue to wear a mask at all times. We must honor and respect one another's decision to do so (or not).
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If you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, please log your symptoms in Scout, and work with your supervisor. You can anticipate a follow-up from Amy Grimes in Human Resources.
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Please schedule a test with your primary care physician or through Mesa County Public Health. CMU employees also have the option to test on campus by registering for a test at www.primarybio.com/a/cmu. The on-campus, walk-up testing center is located on the east side of the Student Wellness Center (between the SWC and the band field off of Orchard Avenue).
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As we continue with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to continue reporting COVID-19-related absences to HR. Employees are responsible for immediately reporting both to their supervisor and to Amy Grimes in HR either when they are absent from work OR when they are requesting to work from home if the:
- employee is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and needs to isolate while waiting for test results; or has tested positive; or has been instructed to quarantine by a contact tracer.
- employee must care for a family member because the family member is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms; is waiting on a test result; or has tested positive; or a family member has been instructed to quarantine by a contact tracer.
As soon as practical, but at the latest when the employee returns to work, the employee must also complete the COVID-19 PHEL leave form and return it to Amy Grimes at aegrimes@coloradomesa.edu or 970.248.1578.
If you start exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, please log them in Scout, a web-based tool. This tool helps the university identify when COVID-19 is on campus in the early stages so we can stop the spread before it starts. You can access Scout through MAVzone. Once you log your symptoms in Scout, a CMU COVID-19 response team member will reach out with further instructions.
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No, only those faculty, staff or students exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms will need to log them in Scout.
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If you have protective immunity (fully vaccinated, or have previously tested positive for COVID-19) you DO NOT need to quarantine.
- Please test 3-5 days after exposure. Please see information below on how to schedule a test.
- Please wear a mask when indoors for 14-days following exposure or until your test result is negative.
- If you develop symptoms, please schedule a test and quarantine until your symptoms resolve and you’ve not had a fever for at least 24-hours.
If you do not have protective immunity (are not vaccinated and have not previously had COVID-19) you NEED to quarantine.
- Stay home for 10 days after your last contact with a person who has COVID-19.
- Watch for fever (100.4◦F), cough, shortness of breath, or other symptoms of COVID-19.
- If possible, stay away from people you live with, especially people who are at higher risk for getting very sick from COVID-19.
- Quarantine will end after day 10 without testing, and without symptoms. Should you choose to test, quarantine will end after day 7 with a negative test that was completed 3-5 days after exposure, and no symptoms have developed.
If you are unsure whether you have been in close contact or not, reach out to safety@coloradomesa.edu.
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Yes and the university encourages employees to be mindful of group members comfort in participating in group gatherings. The use of Microsoft Teams and Zoom meetings can be used. Mindful masking is encouraged.
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Supervisors should work with facilities to identify needs. Employees are responsible for acquiring and paying for supplies for their personal workspace.
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Faculty
- You will need to make a reasonable accommodation that allows the students to complete the course.
- To accommodate students, you may:
- Record lectures.
- Zoom classroom activities and discussions, though this does not work effectively in every classroom.
- Provide alternate assignments that students can complete online.
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- In most cases, you are not required to offer an online option for a face-to-face class and only EAS can make the determination if a student is eligible for this accommodation. Begin by asking the student to fill out the EAS COVID-19 accommodations eform. If you are informed by EAS that the student is eligible, you will need to decide whether a remote option for your course is appropriate.
- If you are not able to offer your face-to-face course online, work with the student and others (such as your ADH) to identify alternatives:
- Can the student wait to take this course later and fulfill another requirement instead?
- Does another professor teach the same course online?
- Is there a comparable course that would fulfill the same requirement?
- If the student is very close to graduating, can the student’s advisor and department head help problem-solve with substitutions for the requirement that your course is fulfilling?
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Many variations of this can occur. In general, you should contact safety@coloradomesa.edu to see whether a close contact has been reported or needs to be reported. Students reporting a need to quarantine should work with CMU Safety to have that status confirmed.
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Contact campus facilities and in the meantime, “borrow” some wipes from another classroom that is not currently being used.
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