Classroom Exposure Procedures - Updated

Ken Ihrer

Dear Faculty and Students,

Procedures for COVID in the Classroom

When a student reports to an Instructor or to the CCNY COVID team that they have received a positive COVID test or that they are feeling ill and will not be attending class, the following should take place immediately:

  1. Respond back to the student telling them not to come to campus and that the College COVID team will be contacting them.
  2. An email should be sent to our nurse, Romy Fabal ( RFabal@ccny.cuny.edu ), with a copy to Richard Belgrave ( RBelgrave@ccny.cuny.edu ), our COVID Liaison, indicating the students' full name, EMPLID, and the class they are attending.
  3. The school (either Romy or Richard) will immediately reach out to the student and ask them to get a COVID test, if that has not already been done. 
  4. If the test is positive, then we would need to move your class online for a minimum period of five days after the exposure date if the instructor is vaccinated and a minimum of ten (10) days if the instructor is unvaccinated.
  5. Before your class can resume in-person classes, all class members will need to remain off-campus (preferably in quarantine but not mandated unless they are unvaccinated) and be tested, using a PCR test or Rapid PCR test, within 3-5 days after exposure.
  6. Each student and the instructor would then need to provide to the school nurse, Romy Fabal, and the COVID Liaison, Richard Belgrave a negative PCR COVID test or a note from their doctor in order to return to campus.
  7. If the student is unvaccinated, then the quarantine must be for 10 days and then a negative PCR test must be provided to the school nurse and COVID Liaison for return.
  8. Your class can resume in-person five days after the last exposure, providing that you, the instructor, have received a negative PCR test result and are therefore cleared to come back to campus. 
  9. How many of your students can return will depend upon their vaccination status and their COVID test results.

If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to Richard Belgrave, COVID Liaison, or Ken Ihrer, COVID Coordinator.

Ken Ihrer
Vice President of Operations
COVID Coordinator
The City College of New York

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