COVID Updates and Information
Since January 2020, Arcadia’s COVID response teams, including public health experts and University leadership across departments, have made it a priority to facilitate a safe and healthy living, learning, and working environment for Arcadia community members. The cross-collaborative efforts include our preparedness, flexibility, and decision-making processes. As we open the 2022-2023 academic year, Arcadia looks forward to building on our successes and continuing to provide a rewarding and fulfilling experience for all University community members.
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Upload Your Vaccine Record
We strongly recommend that all community members get vaccinated and boosted.
Students, upload COVID vaccine information here: Patient Portal.
Employees, upload COVID vaccine and Booster information: iSolved platform. (Instructions here.)
2022-23 COVID Response
As we open the 2022-23 academic year, Arcadia is shifting its COVID-19 approach from spread mitigation to outbreak prevention. We will experience this change in several ways by re-setting our goal to prevent COVID outbreaks with more long-term, broadly focused mitigation strategies to reduce risk under particular circumstances or among groups where infection rates have spiked. Read More
Arcadia’s COVID Response Academic Year 2022-2023
- Updated CDC guidance (8/11/2022) reflects this shift
- Greater focus on individual responsibility, except when COVID is high
- Surveillance testing is no longer recommended
- Contact tracing is only recommended for health care settings and certain high-risk congregate settings.
- No more quarantine (if you are exposed), regardless of vaccination status
- Mask for ten days and test after day 5 (sooner if symptomatic)
- Isolation (if you are sick/test positive) continues to stay the same
- Isolate at home for five days after testing positive. May leave isolation if symptoms resolve and fever free for 24 hours and wear a mask for days 6-10
- Still utilizing Community COVID Levels (low, medium, high) to provide recommendations for individual and community prevention efforts
Focus on preventing and controlling outbreaks not preventing all cases
- Primary mitigation strategy (vaccination) available to those six months and older
- Contact tracing focuses on limiting spread with housemates and intimate contacts for students, additional tracking for athletics, and tracking cases associated with large events
- Select use of other mitigation measures such as return to campus testing and masking
- Individuals can take additional precautions to reduce their own risk.
Reducing Your Risk
- Stay up-to-date on your COVID vaccinations and boosters
- Continue to wear a mask when you feel it is appropriate and reduce your exposure when possible (e.g., be outside or in well-ventilated spaces, distance, avoid large gatherings, participate virtually when possible)
- Utilize at-home COVID tests
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis and antiviral medications may be available through your primary care.
- Request a workplace accommodation
COVID Resources
LINKS TO RESOURCES AND DATA FOR REGIONAL AND GLOBAL COVID-19 INFORMATION
Contact Information
If you are a member of the University community and need a place to direct your question, our central point of contact is Public Safety at 215-572-2800 or 215-572-2999 (emergency) for more information.
For specific questions, please direct to the following Arcadians:
Student Health Services
Theresa Smith
Director of Student Health Services
215-572-2966
Staff and Faculty Employment-Related Questions
Human Resources
humanresources@arcadia.edu
Arcadia Glenside Housing
Susanne Ferrin
Director of Residence and Commuter Life
housing@arcadia.edu or call 215-572-2189
Parent and Family Inquiries
If you are a parent of a current student, please join our email listserv or send any questions to mystudentis@arcadia.edu
IT Related Questions or Concerns
Please submit a ticket via helpdesk@arcadia.edu
