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• UPDATED quarantine, testing plans for spring semester
• Message from SBU's Health Center doctor
• University to go remote starting Nov. 20
• University imposes new COVID strategies
• University announces plans for spring semester
• Halfway Home: A message from President DePerro
• University suspends 21 for large off-campus parties
• University suspends 28 for party in campus apartment
• A welcome back message from President DePerro
• University postpones rescheduled Commencement, Family Weekend
• SBU moves up fall start one week, will end in-person early

As of Monday, May 17, visitors are permitted on the campus of St. Bonaventure University. Masks are no longer required to be worn outside, although unvaccinated people are still encouraged to if they are in a gathering.

This policy is in effect through July and will be revisited, based on public health guidance at the time, when students begin to return in greater numbers in August.

However, New York state has not yet adopted the new CDC guidance announced May 13 on inside mask wearing for vaccinated people so the university will continue to require that masks be worn indoors by visitors and employees even if they’re vaccinated.

If you're hosting or have hosted a vendor or visitor on campus, please tell us who and where so that we have the contact tracing information we'll need should it become necessary. Thank you for making our campus as safe as possible.

Click here to fill out the permitted visitor/vendor form.

If you would like to report a concerning situation or lack of compliance please do so using this form. You cannot submit a concern or complaint anonymously; we may need to contact you to gather additional information. Your report will, however, be treated confidentially.

Click here to submit a concern.

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.

Please visit the Wellness Center's webpage for the most up to date information about services for students and employees. 

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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• Protecting everyone from COVID-19.
• NYS Department of Health coronavirus website.