Faculty + Staff

In the Workplace

Focused on Safety & Flexibility

The university's comprehensive approach for Winter Term incorporates public health guidance, lessons learned from the Fall term and extensive feedback and engagement with the community.

Faculty and staff should continue to work remotely unless instructed by their department chair or unit leader to return to campus. Working remotely keeps density down on campus and protects our community. Faculty members should also continue to work with their unit leaders to provide high-quality teaching and learning experiences for students while protecting their own safety and that of their students.

Helpful resources

Working Safely

Continue to work remotely, unless directed by your department chair or unit leadership. At-risk employees should connect with their department chair or unit leader about the option to work remotely.
Each department has developed a specific COVID-19 plan for its area that will include your unit's return-to-campus plans and timeline.
If you need to work on campus, you will need to follow additional health and safety protocols such as wearing face coverings while indoors, outdoors and on U-M transportation; completing a daily health screening tool, ResponsiBLUE; and contributing to a culture of care by following safety measures across campus to protect the entire U-M community.
All employees working on campus are required to take COVID-19 Training Documentation that employees have taken this training is required and is maintained in the system. Departments should also ensure that individuals are trained on their site-specific workplace requirements.

Medical professional administering a testing site for the community program

Protecting Our Community

Aggressive cleaning protocols have been implemented across campus.
Campus facilities and spaces have been reconfigured to maintain physical distancing and minimize COVID-19 risks.
Each day, all members of our U-M community who will enter campus buildings are required to check themselves for COVID-19 symptoms by answering a brief set of questions using our daily symptom checker tool. We also encourage you to use this tool daily, even when not coming to campus.
Stay home when you are sick and leave work immediately if you begin to feel unwell.
If you develop COVID-like symptoms or test positive, notify your department chair or unit leader and call the Occupational Health Services Hotline at 734-764-8021.
Get vaccinated against the flu to help you stay healthy, protect others and support our health care providers.
To facilitate health and safety for our faculty and our staff, changes have been made to the academic calendar to reduce travel to and from campus to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

COVID-19 & The Classroom

Nearly 90% of classes offered remotely.
In-person classes are limited to those that are essential, as determined by the instructor, for preparing the next leaders in nursing, medicine and other fields where in-person education is required and needed for academic progress.
New technologies and tools available to address concerns expressed by students.
"Classedu" is a new tool to enhance teaching with Zoom and add features that are more like an in-person class, such as one-on-one conversations, playing video, linking to material on the web or running a quick assessment.
Remote teaching orientation for GSIs (via CRLT).

Support Health & Wellness

Wear a face covering that covers your mouth, nose and chin anywhere on campus including indoors, outside and on U-M transportation.
Wash your hands frequently with soap and warm water for 20 seconds, if unable, use hand sanitizer.
Cover your coughs & sneezes.
Observe social distancing guidelines.

Frequently Asked Questions

View the FAQ section

Additional COVID-19 Information & Resources

Instructional

Non-Instructional

Environment Health & Safety COVID-19 Information
U-M Human Resources FAQ
U-M International Center
Michigan Medicine COVID-19 FAQs
Faculty and Staff Counseling and Consultation Office
Ethics, Integrity & Compliance: The University of Michigan is committed to fostering a culture of ethics, integrity and compliance and COVID-19 safety — one where members of our community feel comfortable raising safety and discussing compliance questions and reporting serious concerns confidentially and without fear of retaliation.
General questions can be directed to your unit's HR representative.

Research

FAQ COVID-19: Research Operations at U-M

It is important to note that this information is subject to change as the state of Michigan updates their executive orders as well as when additional guidance for U-M campus planning is in place.