Operations and Procedures

WCU is issuing weekly email updates to students, faculty, and staff covering a range of topics provided for the campus community to stay updated with the latest information for fall.

Student Affairs has provided guidance on the steps for faculty, staff and student employers to take when a student reports a COVID-19 case or possible case to them.

Changes have been made to support social and physical distancing and provide our campus community with additional spaces and resources they can use outside of the classroom.

WCU plans for the fall semester include working with Jackson County Public Health officials on protocols for COVID-19 testing and for contact tracing when positive cases are identified.

WCU Facilities Management and Emergency Services are working on protocols for cleaning and PPE in place this summer prior to the return of students, faculty and staff to campus. .

Catamount Dining has the daily mission of delivering quality meals to students, faculty, and staff. With this mission in mind and given the COVID-19 pandemic, dining at WCU will look very different in the fall.

Catamount Athletics is committed to responsibly returning to competition during 2020-21 academic year. Southern Conference fall competitions have been postponed to the spring and WCU is evaluating nonconference events this semester.

WCU is making plans for the fall semester with the goal of reducing exposure to and the spread of COVID-19, and this includes implementing changes to student programming and activities.

The Division of Student Affairs and the Department of Residential Living are working to plan for a fall semester that will be different for students living in the residence halls.

Shared community standards remind us that we each have personal responsibility for actions that may affect our own health and the health of our friends, colleagues, and our campus community.

Changes are to reduce exposure to and spread of coronavirus and will align the calendar to avoid a densely populated campus in late fall and early winter, when the potential for resurgence may be highest.

We are actively planning for the fall 2020 semester and anticipate that we will be utilizing a variety of instructional arrangements with student success, faculty expertise and staff support as our guides.