1. Declaration: By August 6, 2021, you must inform CIM of your vaccination status. Human Resources will manage a secure process for employees, and the Office of Student Affairs will manage the secure process for students. This information will be collected and stored in accordance with all applicable laws and will not be shared with anyone outside of the departments responsible for collecting the information. This is not optional: all employees and students are required to inform CIM about whether they are vaccinated or not. Human Resources and Student Affairs will communicate directly to employees and students regarding the submission process, which will be open beginning on July 12. CIM will also provide an opportunity for vaccination for any employee or student who is not able to access a vaccine prior to the start of the fall semester.
2. Testing: Woodwind, brass and voice students and employees in these areas who are not vaccinated will be required to participate in weekly testing, which CIM will provide. Student Affairs or Human Resources will communicate directly to the students or employees for whom testing is required, and test results will be communicated securely and directly back to those departments and to those tested. String, keyboard, percussion and composition students and faculty who are not vaccinated will not be required to participate in regular testing. Staff members will not be part of the testing program.
3. Studio-Specific Flexibility: Applied faculty members teaching individual lessons may amend their syllabus with temporary policies regarding virtual lessons. Any student may request lessons to be virtual and applied faculty may specify that students who are not vaccinated sign up only for virtual lessons. This information must be in the studio syllabus, and arrangements regarding virtual lessons will be between the faculty and student. Just as we will support each other through our shared honor system as it pertains to mask wearing, we must also engage with this process in good faith.
4. No employee, including faculty, may inquire with any student or colleague as to their vaccination status. Only the authorized person(s) in Human Resources and Student Affairs may request and manage this information.
5. In accordance with CDC guidance, employees and students who are not fully vaccinated must quarantine for 14 days if they have close contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19. Anyone who is diagnosed with COVID-19 and symptomatic must self-isolate and may not return to campus until the following conditions are met: (1) at least 10 days have passed since the onset of symptoms, (2) 24 hours have passed without fever, and (3) other symptoms are improving. Anyone who is diagnosed with COVID-19 but remains asymptomatic may not return to campus until at least 10 days have passed since the date of their COVID-19 test.

• CIM will return to our traditional academic calendar; the first day of the semester this fall will be Monday, August 23.
• Classroom instruction (music theory, eurhythmics, seminars, etc.) will return to in-person and regular class sizes.
• Chamber ensembles will not need to be distanced and can resume rehearsals in studios.
• CIM Orchestra will return to full orchestra format, without distancing or playing masks/bell covers required.
• CIM Opera Theater will resume semi-staged and full productions.
• New Music Ensemble will no longer require distancing or instrumentation limitations.
• When we begin the fall 2021 semester, audience capacity limits will be capped at 50% of hall capacity (120 seats in Mixon and 270 seats in Kulas). This protocol will be adjusted as needed.
• External guests, including family members and other members of the public, will be able to attend performances. COVID-related protocols for event attendees will be determined later this summer.