Health & Safety

For Students

• Students living in residence halls or in on-campus chapter houses:
  • Required regardless of travel.
  • Take a PCR-based COVID-19 test within 72 hours prior to arrival.
  • Confirm your negative test result before returning to campus.
• Students not in residence halls
  • Required if you travel outside of Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware.
  • Take a PCR-based COVID-19 test within 72 hours prior to arrival.
  • Confirm your negative test result before returning to campus.
• Students not in the groups above
  • If you are due for your bi-weekly test during Spring Break, you need to arrange for a test off-campus.

• You must take a PCR-based COVID-19 test as soon as possible after returning to campus, and confirm results online.
• Please schedule your post-arrival COVID-19 test based on when you plan to return to campus.

For Faculty and Staff

• If traveling out-of-state
  • Either obtain a negative COVID-19 test result within 72 hours prior to arrival or immediately upon arrival to Maryland, or self-quarantine for 10 days. (Per Governor Hogan’s order)
  • Applies to all states, except Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC.
  • You must confirm your negative test result before physically returning to campus.
• If not traveling out-of-state
  • If you tested between March 1 to 5, please test again before March 26
.
  • If you test between March 8 to 12, please test again before April 2.

• Complete this online training and pledge agreeing to abide by CDC-recommended health and safety regulations. 
• Monitor and report your temperature and any onset symptoms. Daily symptom monitoring and reporting must begin at least 14 days prior to arrival.  
• Get a COVID-19 PCR-based test prior to returning to campus, and submit confirmation of your negative test result. Students should be tested within 10 days before arriving on campus and as close to their move-in date as possible. 
• Review your personal dashboard that will confirm your status in meeting COVID-19 return-to-campus requirements.

Before Returning to Campus

Once On Campus

• Each day that you will be on campus or if you are living near campus, you must complete the symptom check survey from UMD confirming you have been symptom-free for at least 14 days.
• All students living on or near campus, and all faculty and staff coming to campus, will be required to take a COVID-19 PCR-based test every two weeks.
• Wear a mask around others at all times both indoors and outdoors, except in your private residence. This is required both by the UMD and by Prince George’s County.

Testing everyone who is physically present on our campus is critical to our understanding of the prevalence of COVID-19 in our community. We fully expect a number of individuals to test positive, and have developed appropriate procedures to initiate early contact identification, and protocols for isolation and quarantine so we can help protect against the further spread of the virus. 

Testing is available on-campus at the Stamp Student Union. You must make an appointment to get tested. Walk-ins are not permitted at this time.

• Testing appointments must be made through the University Health Center Patient Portal.
• Testing is available at the Stamp Student Union on campus every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday throughout the spring semester.
• Individuals who need assistance making an appointment may call the University Human Resources Support Center at (301)405-7575.
• Off-Campus Testing: Testing is available in the College Park area; the closest site is behind the College Park Fire Station. Information and other testing locations can be found at coronavirus.maryland.gov or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Refer to the COVID-19 testing information site for detailed information and FAQs.

• All students, faculty, staff and affiliates are required to confirm their PCR-based test results at return.umd.edu regardless of where the test occurred, even if done on campus. 
• You will be asked to remain home or in your on-campus residence and self-monitor for virus symptoms until you receive a negative test result.

All negative test results from both on-campus testing and off-campus testing locations must be submitted by individuals to return.umd.edu. The UHC will not submit test results on your behalf.

• You must call the HEAL line at 301.405.4325. 
• Messages left on the HEAL line will be responded to between 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 12 p.m.-6 p.m Saturday and Sunday. Any messages left outside of those times will be returned the next time the line is active. 
• If you are having symptoms and need to speak to a nurse outside of the HEAL line's designated hours you can contact the After Hours Nurse Line at (877) 924-7758 between 8 p.m.-8 a.m, seven days a week. 
• You will be required to isolate for 10 days, per CDC guidelines.
• If you are living on campus, you will be asked to move to quarantine and isolation housing in Leonardtown or on Fraternity Row for the duration of your quarantine.
• You are required to provide information about close contacts to the university and/or the county. Failure to comply will result in a referral to Student Conduct, the outcome of which could be interim suspension from the university. 
• We will notify residents of university-owned buildings regarding a positive case on the same floor of that residence hall or university-owned fraternity or sorority house as a reminder for students to remain vigilant and follow 4 Maryland guidelines.

• If you are determined by the University Health Center or Prince George’s County Health Department to be a close contact, you will be required to quarantine for 10 days. 
• The University Health Center will contact you with instructions. Failure to comply will result in a referral to Student Conduct, the outcome of which could be interim suspension from the university. 
• If you are living on campus, you will be asked to move to quarantine and isolation housing and will be required to stay for 10 days.

A Quarantine/Isolation (Q/I) Case Manager will be assigned to each student who will isolate or quarantine on campus. Consistent with last semester, residential students who test positive, and/or have been exposed to a close contact who has tested positive, will be asked to move to quarantine and isolation housing in Leonardtown or on Fraternity Row. Students in quarantine or isolation will now be required to stay 10 days whether they are being quarantined for possible exposure, or isolated with symptoms or a positive test result.
 

• To ensure that case managers are able to meet the needs of students in Q/I housing, the case managers are a dedicated point of contact for students only. Family members of Q/I housed students can contact the Office of Parent and Family Affairs with questions or concerns at 301.314.8429 or terpfamily@umd.edu. Staff members are available from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday - Friday. Messages received outside of these hours, including weekends, will be returned as soon as possible and based on priority of need.
• Refer to the quarantine and isolation housing flowchart for more information on the processes, response, and what to expect.

Mandatory Testing Information and FAQs   

UMD has developed a voluntary way for students, faculty, staff, and affiliates to provide the names and contact information for UMD community members they frequently interact with. 

This platform is designed to aid in early contact identification should someone test positive for COVID-19. Close contacts are individuals who you interact with regularly in-person while working, studying, or in residence on campus or in the greater College Park community. This system is optional and not required.