Cabinet Decisions

The Cabinet accepted three recommendations from the Health and Safety Task Force, as follows:

1. Virtual instruction will be extended by one week through Friday, Jan. 21, based on incomplete results from recent faculty, staff and student testing. We simply do not have the data to support a confident return to in-person instruction yet.
2. Guilford will require that faculty, staff and students receive and report a COVID-19 booster shot by Feb. 15. Next week more information will be communicated to faculty, staff and students about the booster process. 
   1. Faculty, staff and affiliates who have been boosted should submit their vaccination cards with the booster noted via this form. A student form will be provided in the near future. 
   2. A booster clinic for the campus community is being held today (Jan. 14) until 2 pm in Boren Lounge of Founders Hall. Additional booster clinics will be held on campus. Please make a point of getting your booster shot if you have not already done so.
3.  Based on conversation with the Guilford County Health Department, we are making changes to our quarantine and isolation protocols, as described in this flowchart. We have adopted CDC recommendations that take into consideration an individual's vaccination status (fully vaccinated, under vaccinated, and unvaccinated), exposure vs. testing positive, and symptom levels.  

The most effective way to reduce the impact of COVID-19 and its variants on our campus community is to have as many people as possible fully vaccinated and boosted, and to wear a mask when you are in contact with other people. On Thursday, Guilford County reinstated its mandatory mask policy. Individuals must wear face coverings when indoors in all business, establishments and public places.

Community Forum on Jan. 19

As announced in the Health and Safety Task Force message on Jan. 13, the Task Force will hold an hourlong community forum for the campus community Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 1 p.m. on Zoom. I encourage you to join this critically important open discussion about how we best prepare the College and ourselves for living and working in a COVID environment for the foreseeable future. 

The Guilford community and its members are affected by what is happening on our campus and in the wider world: at home, in schools, hospitals, other places of business, and so forth. I look forward to this discussion and your participation in helping to successfully navigate these challenges.

Sincerely,
Kyle Farmbry
President

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