Office of the Provost

Dear Colleagues,

This morning, Student Affairs announced to Storrs students that five additional residence halls would be placed under quarantine, and the remaining residential students would be placed under a modified quarantine.

• Students whose dorms were identified for quarantine will be unable to attend in-person classes, as has been the case with other quarantines.
• Students in modified quarantine, which remains the large majority of students in residence halls, are allowed to continue attending in-person classes. A modified quarantine means that all quarantine procedures apply to these remaining students with the exception that they are permitted to attend class in person, participate in clinical placement, and participate in essential research functions conducted at UConn. They must continue to wear masks, follow medical advice, refrain from gatherings, and remain in their rooms.  They may go to class or other academic activities, pick up food at the dining halls, participate in COVID testing, and go for walks outside away from other people.

As has been the case throughout this semester, please be flexible with students who need accommodations in order to complete course activities.

The take home message is in the final week we are limiting activities of our residential students to minimize the spread of infection on campus in this final week and/or in what our students might bring home. But in this approach we are trying to limit disruption to classes and other academic spaces where we know spread has been limited. We are also requiring that residential students must receive a PCR exit test before leaving for Thanksgivingbreak.

Please click this link to view the message that was sent to students.

Thank you,

Carl

Carl Lejuez
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs