The College has implemented a Daily Health Screening measure in order to identify individuals who are symptomatic, have tested positive for COVID-19, or have been exposed to individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19, within the last 10 days. Health screenings are currently required by NYS COVID-19 Guidance for Higher Education.
Individuals must monitor their own health on a daily basis prior to leaving their home, and if they have symptoms, they must refrain from coming to campus. All individuals must complete mandatory Daily Health Screening through the Qualtrics survey platform prior to entering campus on their smartphone or PC, to affirm the following:
All of us at Teachers College —students, faculty, staff, and affiliates —commit to doing what we can to reduce and stop transmission of COVID-19 within and around the College community. I understand and acknowledge that by checking the box on the remote screening pages linked below, I agree to follow the health and safety protocols as outlined in the Teachers College Health and Safety Guidelines for Campus.
To ensure individual and community health, all students, faculty, staff, and affiliates are required to sign this compact before coming to campus.
TC students, faculty, staff, and affiliates must complete the TC Daily Health Screening and NOT the ReOpen CU app before returning to campus to ensure that your ID card remains active and enables swipe access to campus buildings.
Individuals must monitor their own health on a daily basis prior to leaving their home, and if they have symptoms should refrain from coming to campus. All individuals must complete mandatory Daily Health Screening through the Qualtrics survey platform prior to entering campus on their smartphone or PC, and have proof of clearance to enter campus.
QR Code: Signage at all entrances will be posted to remind individuals of the mandatory Daily Health Screening. Signage will include a QR code which can be scanned with a smartphone and will bring them to the Qualtrics Daily Health Screening page for those who did not complete their Daily Health Screening prior to arriving on campus.
Kiosk: A kiosk with a computer and printer will be available (located at the main entrance at 525 W 120th St., Zankel Hall) for those who did not complete their Daily Health Screening prior to entering campus, and/or do not have a smartphone.
Process Once Submitted:
Email Confirmation:
The College has implemented a separate Qualtrics questionnaire for visitors, who will need to provide a current email address to receive their pass. There will be signage posted at the entrance(s) with the QR code, along with a kiosk with a computer and printer for the visitor Daily Health Screening, which will include the following questions:
Visitor Questions:
Preliminary Statement:
To the best of your knowledge, please check all that apply:
*By submitting this daily health screening, you agree to the following:
Purpose
This guideline and its requirements here-in shall serve as a temporary supplement to the Teachers College (“the College”) Contractor Access and Safety Guidelines.
As stipulated in the College Contractor Access and Safety Guidelines, the health and safety of the College campus, its persons, and property, are of paramount importance to the College. It is a primary aim of the College to ensure the safety of its students, employees, visitors and those performing work on College property. To that end, contractors performing construction, renovation or repair work at the College must take full responsibility for establishing safe working practices, fully complying with all OSHA and other applicable safety standards, fully complying with New York City and New York State Orders and Guidelines pertaining to COVID-19, and fully complying with College requirements (see item 3.0 below) for the prevention of the transmission of the COVID-19 virus, and for policing themselves and their own employees and subcontractors to ensure such compliance. The College is not a General Contractor or Construction Manager, and is not itself in the business of construction or renovation. The College relies on its contractors and their staff to assume and enforce construction safety responsibilities, and safe practices to prevent exposure to and transmission of the COVID-19 virus.
Contractors and their contract staff members are responsible to follow safe procedures including those pertaining to COVID-19, take all necessary precautions, provide and require the proper use of adequate and safe equipment and safety devices, including appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), correct any unsafe conditions, investigate accidents and enforce safety rules. The College expressly does not assume any duty to supervise any specific means and methods of contractor work, to inspect for or correct unsafe conditions, to investigate accidents or enforce safety rules. The College fully relies on contractors to perform these functions, and only assumes duties and responsibilities that are expressly and specifically set forth and agreed in writing.
Definitions and Responsibility:
College requirements for the prevention of the transmission of the COVID-19 virus:
All persons entering campus must complete a daily symptom check prior to entering campus each and every day. The contents of the daily symptom check shall be supplied daily to contract staff members by the contractor in the form of a hard copy questionnaire, on-line questionnaire, or smartphone app questionnaire. The contractor shall be required to maintain records of the daily symptom check completions by contract staff members and maintain up to a maximum of 30 days of daily symptom check records subject to review by the College Environmental Health & Safety Team. At minimum, the contractor’s daily symptom check must include the following questions:
To the best of my knowledge, select any of the following:
I have experienced symptoms of COVID-19 in the past 5 days, including fever (of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher), cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, sore throat, abdominal pain/diarrhea, or new loss of taste or smell)
I have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 10 days
I have knowingly been in close or proximate contact in the past 10 days with anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or who has or had symptoms of COVID-19, outside of clinical research, clinical care or clinical training)
None of the above
Persons answering “Yes/checking the box” to question # 4 may enter campus.
Persons answering “Yes/checking the box” to any of questions #1, #2, or #3 may not enter campus, and in the case of a contract staff member shall immediately notify their contract supervisor. The contract supervisor must ensure that the contract staff member does not enter campus. The contract supervisor shall immediately notify the College contract representative.
All persons entering and remaining on campus must practice six-foot social distancing.
All persons entering and remaining on campus must wear a face covering. Contract staff members must wear PPE appropriate to the work-site on campus.
All persons entering campus shall disinfect their hands upon entry by using the Purell type dispensers located at campus entrances.
All persons entering and remaining on campus must follow the guidelines of COVID -19 prevention signage placed throughout campus, including but not limited to face coverings, elevator use, social distancing, pedestrian traffic flow, hand washing, restroom use, and use of Purell type hand disinfectant.
Welcome to Teachers College!
All individuals who wish to enter campus are required to complete the Daily Health Screening. You may complete the Daily Health Screening at the kiosk, or using your smartphone by scanning the QR code that corresponds to your TC affiliation:
TC Students, Faculty and Staff
Hold your camera up to the barcode here:
QR code #1
Visitors
Hold your camera up to the barcode here: QR code #2
Please check your email upon completion, and show the Day Pass attached in the email you received to the Public Safety Officer at the entrance to campus building to enter.
This questionnaire is pursuant to NYS COVID-19 Guidance for Higher Education, which requires all employees or visitors to affirm all of the aforementioned requirements for entering campus.
Modified Recommendation: Version 1 of the TC Health and Safety Proposal included a recommendation for mandatory temperature monitoring for all individuals who wish to enter campus. Upon further review of guidance on health screenings, the working group has decided to rescind this recommendation due to the following reasons:
Pros | Cons |
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Provides an extra sense of safety to the community |
Not a valid predictor of COVID-19 |
Requires a significant amount of additional staff hours to administer |
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Limits entry points to campus | |
Difficult to provide privacy | |
Puts persons who administer the test at greater risk | |
Will likely cause bottlenecking at the main entrance, which exposes people to privacy issues, social distancing violations, and weather conditions |
Other measures such as physical distancing, healthy hygiene practices, daily health screening, testing, and the community-wide Health and Safety training, and other measures, will be sufficient in mitigating risk of COVID-19 spread on campus. The CDC General Business Information Page describes on-site temperature checks to be an “optional strategy”, and recommends having individuals self-screen prior to coming on-site, which the College is implementing through the Daily Health Screening requirement.