COVID-19 Response

At UMN Morris, the health and safety of our campus community is of the utmost importance. This page provides COVID-19-related updates and information.

COVID-19 Recommendations 

Testing Positive


Students
Students

If you test positive for COVID-19, we strongly recommend you inform your individual close contacts that they may have been exposed and should seek testing. In addition to following the CDC’s guidance for isolation and quarantine, please take the following steps.

  1. Health Service and the student care team will coordinate your care and support. 
  2. You may receive guidance from MDH with information and a request to complete an online survey. Completing the survey will help MDH better understand the current state of COVID-19 transmission in our state.
  3. Review and act on guidance about how to identify close contacts and advice for notifying them that you have tested positive for COVID-19.
  4. Inform your instructors of your need to isolate and make arrangements to stay on track with your courses. Instructors may also help you identify close contacts in your classrooms or labs where close contacts can be identified. 
  5. Reach out to your manager or supervisor if you work on campus to arrange for time off and request assistance with notifying those at work with whom you had close contact.

Follow all public health or medical guidance about isolating and taking additional steps to protect others, including staying home if you are ill.

Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff

If you test positive for COVID-19, it’s strongly recommended that you inform your individual close contacts that they may have been exposed and should seek testing. In addition to following the CDC’s guidelines for isolation and quarantine, please take the following steps:

  1. You may receive guidance from the Minnesota Department of Health with information and a request to complete an online survey. Completing the survey will help the MDH better understand the current state of COVID-19 transmission in our state.
  2. Review and act on guidance about how to identify close contacts so that you can notify them that you have tested positive for COVID-19. 
  3. Inform your manager or supervisor if you need to arrange for time off or if you would like assistance identifying and notifying those with whom you have had close contact.
  4. Follow all public health or medical guidance about isolating and taking additional steps to protect others, including staying home if you are ill. Please note: The University’s guidance is aligned with the CDC.

Beyond taking personal health precautions, your role when notified of a positive COVID-19 case is to support your student in notifying others. If you are a manager or supervisor, your responsibility is to support your employees in notifying others. The Office of Human Resources has more detailed guidance.

Avoid mass notifications of entire classrooms unless there is a documented public health reason to do so as reviewed by public health partners or the Health Emergency Response Office (e.g., there is reason to believe a large percentage of students in the classroom meet the CDC definition of close contact).