covid-19 information

University administrators, in concert with St. Bonaventure faculty and regional health officials, have worked since we moved to online course delivery in lMarch 2020 to build a plan to reopen this fall that maximized the safety of the entire campus community.

This page serves as the repository for all of the significant COVID-19 resources and information to keep the campus community abreast of the plans we've developed and any updates to our plans during the semester.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Bonaventure University is restricting visitors to campus beginning immediately and until further notice.

The general public can continue to use the spur of the Allegheny River Recreation Trail that runs around the perimeter of campus, but otherwise, the only people allowed on campus other than students and employees are the following:

Contractors working for the university;
Essential vendors and business partners;
Delivery drivers;
Prospective students (for individual or small group visits);
Parents and families during move-in and move-out periods;
Box holders at the U.S. Post Office in the Reilly Center.

Signs listing the visitation restrictions are posted at all the entrances to campus and on the recreation trail.

Employees are prohibited from having their family members come to campus unless they are just stopping to pick someone up.

Parents are welcome to visit their children during the semester, but other than going for a walk on the recreation trail, they can only pick them up on campus to take them off campus to either the hotel they might be staying at, or to go shopping or to a local restaurant.

Face coverings are required for all permitted visitors while on campus. Acceptable face coverings for COVID-19 include but are not limited to cloth-based face coverings (e.g. homemade sewn, quick cut, bandana, neck gaiter), surgical masks, and face shields that cover both the mouth and nose.

The highest priority of St. Bonaventure University continues to be the health and safety of our students, faculty and staff and of the community in which we live. The plan outlined in these pages relies on the good will and consistent efforts of all members of our community to ensure that we are all protected.

A network of university employees and students developed the plan, which focuses on repopulating the campus, ongoing monitoring and surveillance of the health of members of the campus community, plans for the containment of COVID-19 infections and, should the need exist, for shutting down all institutional activities other than online instruction.

To read the complete document, click here.

Guided by our Franciscan values and a true sense of community care and belonging, we take seriously our obligations to ourselves and to one another. Each of us must act to protect the health and safety of all our community members. We will fulfill this commitment to each other by monitoring and following the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American College Health Association (ACHA), and local, state, and federal guidelines.

As members of the St. Bonaventure community, we are expected to commit to the behaviors described in this compact, which all students signed at the beginning of the semester. Our success is dependent on staying healthy and by agreeing to behavioral changes that will keep the campus and community protected from illness.

To read the complete compact, click here.

Our Information Technology staff is available to assist you with any technology needs you may have. As the current situation continues to evolve we will work diligently to support everyone to the best of our abilities. Many of our instructors will be relying heavily on using two of our most common applications to move your classes online:

Moodle is a learning management system widely used already by many of our instructors to supplement in-person instruction with discussion boards, assignments, quizzes, etc.

Zoom is a video conferencing software that is a great application to not only view and chat with your instructor, but it also allows for such functions as sharing your desktop, recording instructional videos or using a whiteboard to provide instruction.

While many of you have used one or both of these tools, we have posted instructions for both on MySBU under “Tech Assistance”: https://my.sbu.edu/tech-assistance

Please contact us at helpdesk@sbu.edu or call us at (716) 375–7600 for assistance.

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