Required Protocol for Returning to Campus
For the safety of our community and in accordance with the Enhanced University Health and Safety Policy, everyone must complete the following protocol before returning to campus:
Complete Return-to-work Training
Schedule a COVID-19 Test
Download the COVID-19 Symptom Self-check App (Instructions)
Review important details about recovery planning
Priority Work for Week of July 6
Ramp-up of lab and clinical research continues
Rollout of required training for lab researchers
Remodeling restrooms to accommodate physical distancing
Installation of hand sanitizer dispensers in workspaces
Design of new signage on physical distancing
Promotion of healthy hygiene practices
Return-to-campus Updates
Response to Recent Immigration Restrictions
President Lee C. Bollinger writes that great research universities contribute to the public good by being a part of an international community of scholars and researchers.
Zuckerman Institute Finds Clever Way to Keep Its Researchers Safe
An animated video promotes safety guidelines for the University's ramp-up of lab and clinical research.
Teachers College Updates Plans for the Start of the 2020-21 Academic Year
Announcement includes details on online class instruction, staff operations, residence halls, safety precautions, and college fees.
Task Force Working Groups
The reopening process is managed by the President’s Task Force on COVID-19, composed of public health specialists and senior leaders of the University and led by President Bollinger. Four working groups advise the task force and steer University decision making on public health, education, facilities and campus life, and laboratory research. The working groups also advise the Council of Deans, the leaders of each of our 16 schools, who are designing their own reopening strategies to meet the specific needs of their faculty and students.
The Path Forward
One can only feel a sense of humility in the face of the broad human response as we grapple with a threat as menacing as COVID-19. New York City is almost always the epicenter of crises that strike this nation, and Columbia University in the City of New York is, therefore, too.
Here's what we're doing now to prepare for a safe return to campus.
— President Lee C. Bollinger
Transition Tools
COVID-19 Research at Columbia
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, health care workers on the front lines had high levels of acute stress, anxiety, and depression, a new study has found.
Researchers have developed a one-step diagnostic test that detects SARS-CoV-2 in saliva, and results are available in 30 minutes.
Researchers at Mailman School of Public Health look at how social distancing and limited access to contraceptive and abortion care during the pandemic is affecting young adults.
Researchers found substantial social distancing inequalities throughout New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic.
