Dear Faculty,
As we welcome our students back to campus and begin the 2023-24 academic year, I want to remind you of UT’s Exposure Action Chart for COVID-19. This guidance follows current recommendations of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Please also reference the Guidance for Ending Self-Isolation to inform your expectations around student attendance if they have tested positive.
As COVID-19 has shifted from pandemic to endemic, we anticipate that we will continue to see intermittent upticks of the virus — similar to seasonal upticks with the flu or other respiratory viruses. We don’t want to put our faculty and instructors in the position of managing students’ illnesses or return to class, so please refer students to the exposure action chart to manage their own healthcare. Further, as has always been the case, please refrain from classroom notifications about exposure to COVID-19 as you would not share notifications for any other illness.
It’s important that we all follow this guidance to maintain consistency across campus. We want to ensure students have a clear understanding of how they can manage possible infection and when they should return to class.
I encourage you to familiarize yourself with these guidelines, as they may have changed since the last time you reviewed them.
Thank you,
Tasha Beretvas
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs