• Authority to enforce District-established COVID protocols:
  • Authorization from the College to verify students’ vaccination and valid negative COVID test results.
  • Authority to ask students who fail to comply with District-mandated vaccination and COVID testing protocols to leave a classroom/workspace/building.  
  • Per AP 5500, faculty also have the authority to “cancel a class/meeting if the situation warrants.” 

• COVID vaccinations required of all faculty, students in face-to-face classes, and individuals seeking non-instructional services 
• Room and building capacity:
  • 50% room and building capacity where non-instructional faculty provide face-to-face services.
  • 50% library capacity
  • 50% classroom capacity
• The ability to participate in institutional or professional activities (division, department, and committee meetings, professional development, shared governance, etc.) in a remote format.
• The ability to conduct office hours in a remote format
• Masking indoors
• Ability to use any remaining 56 COVID sick time hours (separate from traditional sick leave) if diagnosed with COVID by a healthcare provider

*Please note that subsequent to the above Agreement, the College decided to require masking outdoors on campus and testing of faculty and students as well.

**Please understand that the District’s COVID-testing protocols are intended to keep all employees and students safe.  Clearly, the District implemented these additional protocols because they felt working and learning conditions would be otherwise unsafe.

However, if we don’t check for COVID test results each time we teach or serve students, we may be increasing already unsafe conditions at PCC.  Thus, we need to conscientiously take the time to check for vaccination and negative test results for the sake of the health and safety of ourselves, our coworkers, and our students.