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COVID-19 Health Protocols

For Mitchell Hamline students, staff, faculty, and visitors

All students, staff, faculty, and visitors who come to campus are required to comply with the following COVID-19 health protocols.

Before entering the law school building, each person is required to:

  1. Report your health status using the #CampusClear app on your phone.
  2. Enter the building only if you receive the “Good to Go” message.
  3. Show this message to the security staff member at the front desk.

Visitors, faculty, staff, and students who are unable to use the #CampusClear app, may enter the building and request a paper form to report your health status. You must be cleared to remain in the building by the security staff person at the front desk.

Campus Clear

Use the #CampusClear app to report your health status and generate an all clear to visit campus. About #CampusClear

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At all times when you are in the building:

  1. Wear a mask or other cloth face covering that fits properly over the mouth and nose. (Masks should be two-ply and made of a durable cotton material. Bandanas and gaiters are not acceptable substitutes. Two exceptions:
    • Employees who work in a 1-person office or are using a classroom to teach a class are not required to wear a mask/face covering when they are the only person in that space.
      Groups meeting in an office, classroom, meeting room, or other enclosed space do not need to wear masks or maintain distance requirements if all have been fully vaccinated, though they still need to wear masks and maintain distance in common areas.
    • Masks/face covering can be removed while eating and/or drinking.
  2. Stay a minimum of 6 feet from others, even when wearing a mask or cloth face covering.
  3. Wash hands frequently and use hand sanitizing stations located throughout the building.
  4. Wipe down high touch areas after use when possible.

You are required to stay home and seek medical advice when sick or experiencing one or more of the following symptoms:

  • Fever (100.4 degrees F or higher)
  • New loss of taste or smell
  • Excessive fatigue
  • New severe/very bad headache
  • New nasal congestion/stuffy or runny nose
  • Cough not attributable to another health condition
  • Shortness of breath not attributable to another health condition
  • Chills not attributable to another health condition
  • Muscle pain not attributable to exercise or another health condition
  • Sore throat not attributable to another health condition
  • Any gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite

You should stay home if:

  • You or anyone you have been in close contact with have been diagnosed with COVID-19 within the last 14 days
  • You or anyone you have been in close contact with have been placed on quarantine for possible contact with COVID-19 within the last 14 days
  • You have been in close contact with another person who has COVID-19 symptoms and until you have more information about the close contact
  • You and/or your close contact have tested for COVID-19 and until you are informed of the test results

Close contact defined

According to the Minnesota Department of Health: “In general, a close contact means being less than 6 feet from someone for 15 minutes or more throughout a 24-hour period. However, even shorter periods of time or longer distances can result in spread of the virus. The longer someone is close to the person who has COVID-19, and the closer they are, the greater the chance the virus can spread.

If you have been on campus and

a) you have tested positive for COVID-19 or
b) you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19:

  1. Complete the COVID-19 Reporting Form found on this website. Dean Lynn LeMoine will follow up with students and Andrea Bien, Director of Human Resources, will follow up with employees.
  2. If you have tested positive for COVID-19, you will receive information about when you may return to the law school.

Students should review the full list of COVID-19 policies found in the law school catalog.

COVID-19 reporting form

Please complete this form if you have been:

  • Diagnosed with COVID-19 or
  • Exposed to a person who has been diagnosed with COVID-19

This form collects the key data needed for contact tracing in the event of a Mitchell Hamline community member being diagnosed with or exposed to someone with COVID-19.

COVID-19 reporting form