Dear UW-Green Bay Students, Faculty, and Staff,
Today, the Centers for Disease Control announced new guidance regarding the pandemic primarily on the issue of face coverings. Since the pandemic began, we have followed CDC guidelines as the primary source of our decision making to keep our campuses safe. We have also been intentionally slow to react with university procedures until we have had time to fully assess local conditions. The new CDC guidelines show the counties where we have campuses to be at moderate risk for transmission. So far, for our campuses the CDC is not recommending any change to our current guidelines and we will proceed as per my email on May 14, 2021. We will continue to monitor daily for any changes to the status of guidance for the counties where our campuses reside.
I urge you to get vaccinated unless you have religious, moral, or health reasons for not doing so. We know the fastest way to prevent the spread of the virus is to block its ability to move between people. The best way forward for our campuses and the region is to get ourselves to a low risk of transmission and keep it there. Like everything else we have persevered through to this point, we will also navigate our way through the Delta variant. Please stay safe, take care of each other, and we will send further guidance as the picture for our region becomes more clear.
Best,
Michael Alexander
Chancellor