Academic Facilities

The COVID-19 Task Force released a Campus Protection Guide that introduced three protection phases for campus operations. Oglethorpe is currently operating under the red phase, with campus being closed with limited exceptions and delivering fully remote instruction.

Recommendations

• Reduce furniture in existing classrooms/labs to meet current social distancing standards within each space
• Short-term conversions of larger spaces on campus to classrooms to allow larger sections to meet while adhering to social distancing recommendations
• Addition of hand-sanitizing and disinfecting wipe stations in every classroom
• In some classrooms that use tables for student desks, installation of Plexiglas dividers between students
• Installation of new technology to facilitate hybrid learning
• Disinfect all classroom surfaces daily above the standard daily cleaning, frequency to be determined
• Disinfect all non-traditional classroom spaces (computer lab workstation surfaces, music and voice practice spaces, laboratory spaces, fine arts, etc.) in conjunction to the same frequency as established for all general classrooms, minimum 1x/day recommended