Coronavirus Bulletin 2022

Important Message from Hocking College

Hocking College serves as a pathway to prosperity, teaching and inspiring all who seek to learn, growing careers and changing lives. College priorities include the health, safety and well-being of our students, faculty, staff and community; maintaining students’ academic progression; and to continue business operations with established safety protocols. 

Going forward the following safety protocol applies to all individuals who are on a Hocking College campus:

• Fully vaccinated - mask/face covering OPTIONAL

Not fully vaccinated - make/face covering REQUIRED while inside any Hocking College building or outside unless you can be 6 feet apart.

Hocking College is adhering to the Ohio Department of Health instructions for guidance on COVID-19 policies. Specific Hocking College COVID Safety Protocol is below.

Hocking College COVID Safety Protocol

IF YOU ARE SICK:

Employees/Commuter Students

1. Stay home.
2. Seek medical attention and follow the instructions from your medical provider or local health department and submit appropriate leave time (employees).
3. Notify your supervisor (employees) or faculty (students).
   

Residence Hall Students On Campus

1. Stay in your dorm room.
2. Immediately call Hawks Center for Well-Being @ 740-753-7079 to make an appointment.
   

Residence Hall Students Off Campus & at Home

1. Stay home.
2. Seek medical attention and follow the instructions from your medical provider or local health department.
3. Contact your faculty so they can keep you on track academically.

IF YOU TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID:

Employees

1. Notify HR and your supervisor.
2. Follow the instructions from your medical provider or local health department and submit appropriate leave time.
   

Commuter Students

1. Follow medical order/health department instructions regarding quarantine.
2. Notify your faculty so they can create a remote academic plan to keep you on track until you are no longer in quarantine. 
   

Residence Hall Students On Campus

1. Go home immediately.
2. Send an email to housing@hocking.edu to receive instructions for next steps. The Housing Team will notify your faculty who will create a plan to keep you on track until you are approved to return to campus.
   

Residence Hall Students Off Campus & at Home

1. Stay home.
2. Send an email to housing@hocking.edufor the next steps. The Housing Team will notify your faculty who will create a plan to keep you on track until you are approved to return to campus.
   

STUDENT/EMPLOYEE CODE OF CONDUCT:

Failure to follow the COVID Safety Protocol is a violation of the Student/Employee Code of Conduct and will result in disciplinary action.

 

MANDATORY REPORTING REQUIREMENT:

Anyone with knowledge of an individual that is not following the COVID Safety Protocol must immediately report it by submitting an incident report HERE. 

 

FAILURE TO REPORT:

If an employee/student fails to report a violation of the COVID Safety Protocol, they will be reported for disciplinary action due to the safety risk caused to the campus community.

 

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Hocking College is adhering to the Ohio Department of Health instructions for guidance on COVID-19 policies.

What does "fully vaccinated" mean? It's been two weeks since the second dose of a two-dose vaccine (Pfizer or Moderna) or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine (Johnson & Johnson).

 

If you need accommodations due to a disability, please contact Erin Bowald, director of Academic Support and Disability Services at bowalde@hocking.edu or 740-753-7103.