As Northeastern moves ahead to reopen in the fall, testing faculty and staff who return to work will play an integral role in promoting the safety of the Boston campus and its surrounding communities.
The university will be requiring all people studying, living, and working on campus to be tested for the coronavirus. Faculty and staff will be tested every seven days, or whenever they are on campus if their visits are less frequent than one day a week. Students will be tested the day they arrive, then on day three, followed by day five—and will be able to attend classes in person after receiving negative results on all three tests.
Before faculty members go back to teaching in person, they will need to receive a negative test result within a week of their return—a test they can obtain on the Boston campus or elsewhere. Staff members and employees will also need to be tested on campus the day of their return.
