To ACPHS Community,

As a reminder, the College is requiring all students and employees to provide documentation that demonstrates they are fully vaccinated with an authorized COVID-19 vaccine by August 9, 2021. Please do not try to upload your proof of vaccination yet. Information on how to upload this documentation into ShareMy.Health will be provided in July.

This week, you received information from the Office of Student Affairs on our campus vaccine clinic on July 6 for those students and employees who have not gotten vaccinated yet. For more information, email CovidTesting@acphs.edu.

Students and employees requesting a medical or religious exemption to the vaccine policy must apply by July 12, 2021 to ensure all documentation is in place. The Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Human Resources will coordinate the medical and religious accommodation review process for students and employees, respectively. For more information, read the ACPHS COVID-19 Vaccine Policy.

We are in the process of updating the College's health and safety protocols to be consistent with updated COVID-19 guidance from the CDC, New York and Vermont. Below are ACPHS policy updates that are effective immediately. Additional information on our other health and safety policies will be forthcoming.

The College no longer requires social distancing indoors or outdoors. Fully vaccinated students and employees are not required to wear masks indoors or outdoors. Approved unvaccinated students and employees must continue to wear masks indoors and follow a regular testing schedule. Since there is low risk of COVID-19 transmission outdoors according to the CDC, masks are optional outdoors for unvaccinated people. We must be supportive of people who choose to wear a mask because they feel more comfortable and/or have received an approved exemption from the ACPHS COVID-19 Vaccine Policy.

Both vaccinated and unvaccinated students and employees will still need to complete the daily health screening to allow us to monitor the health of our community and identify quickly any possible breakthrough infection or COVID-19 variant present on campus. The ShareMy.Health daily survey is being modified to require fewer questions for those who are vaccinated.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Greg Dewey

ACPHS President