Fall 2009 Flu Protocols

Special Fall 2009 Flu Protocols

In compliance with Pennsylvania Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control recommendations, students should NOT attend class or any public gatherings while ill with influenza. Students with flu symptoms will be asked to leave campus if possible and to return home during recovery. The illness and self-isolation period will usually be about a week. It is very important that individuals avoid spreading the flu to others.
 
Most students should be able to complete a successful semester despite a flu-induced absence.  Faculty will provide students who are absent because of illness with a reasonable opportunity to make up missed work. The opportunity to complete all assignments and exams supports the University's desire to enable students to make responsible situational decisions, including the decision to avoid spreading a contagious virus to other students, staff, and faculty, without endangering their academic work.
 
Students with the flu do not need to provide a physician's certification of illness.  However, ill students should inform their teachers (but not through personal contact in which there is a risk of exposing others to the virus) as soon as possible that they are absent because of the flu.  Likewise students should contact their instructors as quickly as possible to arrange to make up missed assignments or exams.