The following policies and procedures will be implemented for the in-person sessions of the 2023 Summer Residential Program to guard against infection and transmission of COVID-19. These policies and procedures may change and evolve as the pandemic does.

  1. First and foremost, we strongly encourage all students who attend an in-person session to be fully vaccinated and boosted. Because of Iowa state law, we cannot require vaccination. We will highly encourage our adult staff to be vaccinated and boosted.

  1. Each student will live in a double or triple room with a roommate(s). In our view, housing students in single rooms to reduce the risk of infection is not worth the lost opportunities to spend time with roommates and connect.

  1. Masks may be encouraged (but not required) in certain crowded indoor areas such as classrooms and meeting rooms.

  1. Social distancing may be required in certain crowded indoor areas such as classrooms and meeting rooms.

  1. All classrooms and meeting rooms in which IYWS events occur will have ventilation with high quality (MERV-13) filtration. The dormitory where students will live, and the dining hall where they will eat, are both located in buildings with excellent ventilation and air purification.

  1. University of Iowa Housing and Dining will clean and disinfect all campus facilities—classrooms, dormitory rooms, restrooms, common areas—according to the CDC “Guidance for Cleaning and Disinfecting.”

  1. Classes and other camp events may be held outdoors if weather permits.

  1. Any student who shows any symptoms of a COVID-19-like illness will be asked to take a rapid antigen test immediately. (Any student who shows any symptoms of a COVID-19-like illness and declines to take a rapid antigen test will be sent home from the program.) If the test is negative, but symptoms persist, the student may be asked, but not required, to wear a mask when indoors in close company with other students and staff. University of Iowa Housing and Dining will not provide isolation rooms for infected students. The student may be asked to take another test the following day. If any of these tests are positive, University of Iowa policy dictates that the student must depart from the dormitory within 24 hours (see 9).

  1. Every student who attends an in-person session will be required to designate an emergency contact who can arrange for the student’s departure from the program within 24 hours of a positive rapid antigen test.

  1. Any student who fails to adhere to these policies, or who recklessly or deliberately poses a risk of infection to another student or to a staff member, will be sent home from the program.