Following new guidance from Santa Clara County Public Health Department and the California Department of Public Health, Stanford is making adjustments to its masking guidelines, effective March 2.
Read more about Revised masking guidelinesThis message provides an update for students and instructors about the beginning of winter quarter instruction in January. As you will read, we are now planning to begin the quarter with two weeks of online instruction, though students are welcome to return to campus on schedule and do not need to change their travel plans. Other university operations will continue.
Read more about Update on the beginning of winter quarterProvost Persis Drell and Russell Furr, associate vice provost, environmental health & safety, update the Stanford community on protocols for returning to campus following winter break. The university’s approach to supporting a healthy return to campus includes continued masking, enhanced COVID-19 testing, including an additional rapid test upon arrival for some students and limitations on student parties and some other gatherings for the start of the quarter.
Read more about A message on winter quarter return policiesA message to the Stanford community details a wide range of planning issues for the fall quarter including vaccination requirements, Health Check, testing, international student arrivals, fall instruction, face coverings, and various facilities on campus.
Read more about Planning for fall quarterIn a message to the campus community, Provost Persis Drell writes that Stanford plans to require all undergraduate, graduate and professional students coming to campus this fall to be vaccinated for COVID-19, with accommodations for those who cannot take a vaccination for medical or religious reasons.
Read more about Student vaccination this fallIn a message to the campus community, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell announce Stanford’s undergraduate plans for the spring quarter.
Read more about Undergraduate spring quarterIn a message to the campus community, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell wrote that due to the continuing COVID-19 surge, lengthening public health restrictions and their likely impact on the on-campus undergraduate experience, Stanford unfortunately will not be able to have the frosh and sophomore classes on campus for the winter quarter as planned.
Read more about Change in our winter undergraduate planStanford will proceed with plans to welcome frosh and sophomores to live on campus in the winter quarter, but in light of public health conditions, will adopt a phased undergraduate arrival process and an enhanced COVID-19 testing protocol for their arrival.
Read more about Winter quarter and undergraduate returnIn a message to the campus community, Provost Persis Drell announces that starting January 4, Stanford will begin requiring COVID-19 surveillance testing for faculty, staff and postdoctoral scholars who come to campus for in-person work.
Read more about Beginning January 4: Required COVID testing for faculty, staff and postdocsIn a message to the campus community, Provost Persis Drell provides an update on plans for the quarter that begins in January, including an offer for on-campus housing to frosh and sophomores, with health and safety measures to inhibit the spread of COVID-19.
Read more about Provost’s update on winter quarter plans