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COVID-19 Information

Health Guidelines

Last updated: 8/18/22

Personal health responsibility

As a community, we need to take responsibility collectively to follow the necessary guidelines and protocols to keep our community as safe as possible. All faculty, staff, students, residents, and visitors to campus must follow a set of personal health responsibility guidelines.
Recognizing that our University is part of a residential neighborhood, it is important that members of the University community abide by these guidelines when they are on and off campus to help protect and respect the health and safety of our community neighbors.
We are all mutually accountable for personally adhering to these health guidelines, as outlined, and reminding our colleagues and classmates to do similarly. We are all in this together, because #ExplorersCare. The guidelines below apply to the following populations: students, faculty, staff, visitors, contracted vendors, and residents.
To report an incident of a student not abiding by these guidelines, please submit an incident report on the portal. To report a faculty or staff member not abiding by these guidelines, please speak with your supervisor or department head.
  • Monitor your symptoms daily. If you are not feeling well, stay home. Submit a disclosure form to the University. Have questions? Email COVID19@lasalle.edu.
  • Carry a high-quality face mask with you while on campus. If an individual requests that you mask in their presence, it is expected that you will comply.
Daily self-monitoring
Stay home when sick
  • If you are experiencing symptoms consistent with COVID-19, the common cold, or the flu, stay home and do not report to campus. If you are unsure if your symptoms meet this standard, please reach out to your primary care provider. Leaving home when you are sick, or have suspected exposure to COVID-19, puts the entire University community at risk.
  • Students are required to notify faculty when they are missing class due to suspected COVID-19-like symptoms. (See the Self-Reporting section of this plan for further guidance.)
  • Faculty and staff can reference the Employee Guidance section of this plan.
Face masks

For the general campus community, high-quality face masks are optional while indoors on campus. The University can reinstitute a mask requirement in the event of concerning case transmission, or as required by the City of Philadelphia. However, please note that masks are required for individuals who have been exposed to COVID-19 for 10 days after their most recent exposure and for individuals experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 until they have received a negative test. Masks will also be required for certain positive individuals after their release from isolation.

High-quality face masks including KN-95s. Additionally:

  • Employees and students are required to carry masks with them while on campus. If an individual requests that you mask in their presence, it is expected that you will comply.
  • Faculty may require that all students wear masks in their classroom. If a student would like the class to mask.
  • Masks are still required in clinical healthcare settings and in our COVID-19 testing center. Please note, you must always carry an appropriate mask with you.
  • According to the CDC, COVID-19 is spread most frequently through respiratory droplets. Face masks are critical in helping to stop the spread of the virus. Remember, by wearing a high-quality face mask, you are protecting those around you. It is a simple step that can prevent you from unknowingly spreading the virus to others (even when you do not have any symptoms).
  • If you are not wearing a mask, cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue and then throw it away. Wash your hands afterward. If a tissue is not available, cough or sneeze into your elbow.

Mask locations:

  • All Residence Hall Entrances
  • La Salle Union Information Desk
  • Connelly Library Information Desk
  • TruMark Financial Center Lobby
  • Information Technology Help Desk (Hayman Hall, 2nd Floor)
  • Office of Admission (Lawrence Administration Center, Main Floor)
  • Union 301 Testing Center
To report an incident of a student not abiding by these guidelines, please submit an incident report on the portal. To report a faculty or staff member not abiding by these guidelines, please speak with your supervisor or department head.
Personal hygiene

Personal hygiene is important to keep our community safe. Below are some common tips:

  • Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds frequently throughout the day. This is especially important after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
  • Hand washing with soap and water is the method of sanitizing your hands that is proven more effective than the use of anti-bacterial hand sanitizer.
  • Increase your use of anti-bacterial hand sanitizer when soap and water is unavailable. Use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends against the use of particular types of hand sanitizer.
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
Travel
  • University-sponsored and University-supported travel
      • The CDC cautions that all travel increases your risk of exposure to COVID-19. The best way to protect yourself and others from getting sick is to avoid all non-essential travel.
      • Guidance for employees:
        • All University-sponsored and University-supported travel will require approval through standard internal approval processes.
        • Employees wishing to travel on University-sponsored domestic trips should carefully research and comply with health guidance provided by the CDC and the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
        • Employees are required to comply with any restrictions imposed in the location(s) to which they are traveling.

It is recommended that all employees and students receive COVID-19 testing BEFORE and AFTER University-sponsored travel.