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Guide for Returning to Campus

SU’s Student Guide for Returning to Campus is available for download (click button below). These guidelines are expected to remain in place through the spring 2021 semester. All students are expected to comply fully with the policies, protocols and guidelines outlined in this document.

Download the Student Guide for Returning to Campus (PDF)

Policies and Procedures

Please visit SU’s main COVID-19 webpage for current information on Campus ID Requirements, Campus Visitors, Daily Screening, Face Mask Policies, Testing, Training and Travel information.

Spring 2021 Information

The health and safety of students, faculty, staff and the community is SU’s top priority. Below is information about what students and families can expect to see for different areas of campus.

Student Support

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Additional Information

Clinicals, Field Placements & Internships
Salisbury University COVID-19 Clinical, Field Placement, and Internship Guidelines for Students
- SU's COVID-19 Clinical, Field Placement, and Internship Guidelines for Students (PDF)
The following guidelines apply to all SU students in their clinicals, field placements, and internships:
- Education formats such as clinical, small simulation, field placements, internships, and other similar experiences may continue on a case-by-case basis with approval from the Dean.
- Students should not:
  - Attend clinicals, field placements, or internships if they have been asked to self-quarantine by public health authorities or in accordance with USM guidelines
  - Participate in the care of known or suspected COVID-19 patients
- Clinicals, field placements, and internships will be canceled in the following circumstances:
  - At any site that is treating a patient with COVID-19 where appropriate environmental
    controls cannot be implemented per CDC guidelines
  - At any site when crisis standards of care are used to care for COVID-19 patients
  - At any site unable to provide students with site-specific, appropriate personal protective equipment. Students are encouraged to provide their own face mask/shield. If this is not possible, the University will provide face masks/shields
  - At any site where there is an insufficient level of staff employees to carry out regular duties. Students will neither be expected nor permitted to perform services in lieu of an employee.
- Students must:
  - Communicate with their clinical, field placement, or internship instructor before attending any scheduled experiences to check if cancellation is warranted
  - Immediately communicate to their clinical, field placement, or internship instructor and their school’s clinical, field placement, or internship coordinator any safety concerns and
    stop participating in the experience until the issue is resolved
  - Inform their clinical, field placement, or internship coordinator if they have a health condition that puts them at high risk or have other relevant circumstances (e.g., caregiver for an immunosuppressed family member).
  - Work with their clinical, field placement, or internship coordinator to identify
    educational experiences that reduce their risk while meeting educational requirements.
- For international clinicals, field placements, and internships, travel advisories from the CDC and State Department as well as USM guidance on international travel should be followed.
- Clinical, field placement, and internship sites and/or SU retain the right to cancel student participation at any time to protect the safety of students and staff.
- SU will be compliant with all program specific accreditation mandatory guidance.
- SU will be compliant with all Federal, State, Local and USM mandatory guidance.
- For Education Majors: All part-time clinical field experiences in early childhood and pK-12 settings have been suspended until further notice. All full-time interns in clinical experiences will continue with their first placement once schools reopen. However, you must adhere to the above stated guidelines for any potential exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Please continue to monitor email communications from the Clinical Practice Office from Paul Gaisor and Sara Elburn. For additional information about clinical placements for education majors, visit the SU Regional PDS webpage.
Note: All policies are subject to change in the event that new information becomes available or if SU must adjust the policy in light of new federal, state, local or USM regulations and policies.

REVIEWED 3/12/2020
International Students & Study Abroad
The University has exchanged multiple messages with its partners around the world about the situation with their continuity of instruction. This conversation is ongoing.
- On July 14, 2020 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) retracted the new instructions about international students on F-1 and J-1 visas studying in the USA during fall 2020 that it first released on July 8. Until further notice, emergency exemptions to current regulations governing non-immigrant international student visas (F, J and M) due to the COVID-19 pandemic remain as described in the March 13 SEVP instruction. You can read the March 13 instructions on I.C.E website.
  
  In short, that means the rules that applied to international students in March, April and May are once again the rules that will apply to fall 2020 until further notice.
  
  We will continue to update the COVID-19 Information on the International Students website. The university continues to work to support international students as they prepare for Fall 2020 semester.
  
  The staff of the Janet Dudley-Eshbach Center for International Education is responding to many questions from international students and their families from all over the world. We are committed to doing everything we can to support international students in the completion of their academic programs whether they are in the U.S. or in their home countries. The COVID-19 resource page for international students, established in March to assist international students with evacuation to their home countries, relocation of their housing in Salisbury, and other crisis management issues that emerged with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been updated to provide the most up-to-date information for fall 2020. The page will be updated as needed in the coming days and weeks as we continue to support international students: COVID-19 Information for International Students web page.
  
  Just under 130 non-immigrant international students, mostly on F and J visas from more than 40 countries, study full-time at SU in one of our undergraduate, graduate or non-degree English Language programs. SU treasures these students and the diversity in perspective, formation and identity that they bring to our learning community. Other Salisbury students enjoy a more engaging educational experience because of the global perspectives these students bring to our campus.
  
  During the COVID-19 pandemic, SU has worked tirelessly to care for international students far from home. As we move forward, we remain committed to the well-being of international students as they work to make progress toward their degrees from the main campus in Salisbury, our other instructional sites throughout Maryland or their kitchen tables all around the world.

Need More Information?

Have questions about positive tests or failed screenings? Looking for the testing dashboard? Visit the COVID-19 Testing webpage.

Looking for policies and procedures, including Campus ID Requirements, Campus Visitors, Daily Screening, Face Mask Policy, Testing and Travel Information? Visit the main COVID-19 website.