COVID-19 Updates

Westchester Community College’s COVID-19 plans were developed with recommendations from federal, state, and county health professionals to keep the community safe and prevent the spread of COVID-19. As the situation concerning the pandemic and the vaccine continue to be fluid, note that our plan will remain subject to change due to new information and updated guidance and/or direction from the State of New York and the Governor’s Office.

September 28, 2022 Announcement

Based upon current COVID-19 conditions and the most recent SUNY guidance and the guidance from federal, state and local authorities, the Pandemic Response Team recently made several significant recommendations to President Miles.

The President has approved the Pandemic Response Team’s recommendation that the College declare its operations to be in line with the Rescinding Recovery Levels section of the College’s Pandemic Recovery Plan. In this portion of the plan, the College has returned to full on-campus operations.

The President has also approved the following recommendations from the Pandemic Response Team:

• Students must continue to be vaccinated or have an approved exemption from the Health Office. This will continue as long as it remains to be SUNY policy. See below
• Employees are not required to be vaccinated and no longer need to report their vaccination status each semester.
• Surveillance testing will no longer be required and the College’s testing program with Westchester Medical Center (WMC) will be discontinued, effective October 2, 2022.
• Antigen rapid test kits will remain available in the Health Office for use by employees and students for the remainder of the Fall Semester.
• Employees who test positive for COVID-19 should report same to Human Resources and follow the current CDC guidelines. The applicable CDC COVID-19 guidelines as of the date of this message are summarized by the CDC here.
• Students who test positive for COVID-19 should report same to the Health Office and follow the current CDC guidelines. The applicable CDC COVID-19 guidelines as of the date of this message are summarized by the CDC here.
• Employees and students should stay home if they are sick with any airborne infectious disease.
• Enhanced cleaning and air filtration will continue as necessary and appropriate.
• Employees must display their college identification when in public spaces on college property.

President Miles has adjourned the Pandemic Response Team and will reconvene the team in the future, if necessary.

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STUDENT VACCINATION REQUIREMENT

July 11, 2022

Any student regularly entering college property for reasons including, but not limited to taking an in-person class, attending a college-sponsored program or activity, utilizing student services, or working a job on site, must have one of the following on file with the College:

1. Proof of a completed COVID-19 vaccination.*
2. An approved medical exemption.
3. An approved religious exemption.

*Complete COVID-19 vaccination is defined as students who have submitted documentation to the college that they received either the second dose in a two dose COVID-19 vaccine series or a single dose COVID-19 vaccine.

Students will not be able to register for in-person classes until they have satisfied the COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement noted above.