Your safety matters. Austin Community College District’s health and safety protocols follow guidance from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Texas Department of Health Services, and local health departments.
The college supports the use of face masks on campus and encourages social distancing to help reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 and better ensure the health, safety, and well-being of all students, faculty, and staff, especially those who are most at-risk.
View Austin Community College District's COVID-19 Return to Campus Health & Safety Protocols.
· Any ACC student or employee with COVID-19 related symptoms or someone with a confirmed case of COVID-19 must inform their professor(s) or supervisor and complete the college's COVID-19 self-report form. Do NOT come to campus or work until instructed to do so. Per the CDC, people with the following symptoms may have COVID-19: fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea. This list does not include all possible symptoms.
· If you have been in close contact/direct exposure with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 within the last 5 days (both before and after they tested positive), you must complete the college's self-report form. The CDC definition of direct exposure or close contact is someone who is within 6 feet or closer to an infectious person for 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period. You also are required to use the CDC Quarantine and Isolation Calculator to determine your return to campus/work date and other requirements to return. Upon receipt of the self-report form, the student or employee will receive further instructions from the college immediately upon email.
· As always, call 911 for emergency situations.
· Under no circumstances should you disclose the identity of an individual who tested positive for COVID-19 or may have been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19; this is a violation of their confidentiality.
· When an individual shares with you that they are positive for COVID-19, urge them to go home or stay home, seek medical care if needed, follow their healthcare provider’s instructions, and complete ACC’s self-reporting form for further instructions on returning to campus/work requirements.
ACC follows cleaning and disinfecting guidance from the CDC and WHO and supplemented with Ecolab expertise for commercial facilities and office buildings. All disinfectants used at ACC are approved by the EPA for use against the Novel Coronavirus. Specific cleaning and disinfecting protocols at ACC include, but are not limited to, the following:
On-Campus testing locations and schedules for spring 2022 are available here.
Testing Resources: