Part of our effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 on our campus is our robust Carolina Together Testing Program as well as our plans for when students do get sick or exposed to COVID-19. Learn more about our quarantine and isolation process.
The COVID-19 testing centers that are part of the Carolina Together Testing Program (located in the Carolina Union, Rams Head and CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio) will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
At the meeting, members discussed faculty concerns regarding COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, as well as updates on Carolina Next’s first strategic initiative.
Dear Carolina Community,
We hope you had a good winter break and were able to find opportunities to rest after a challenging year. As we start the new year, we know many of those challenges remain, but we are focused on the best ways we can support the important work ahead of us to continue teaching, learning and conducting groundbreaking research at Carolina while keeping your health and safety a priority.
When we shared our plans for the spring semester, we promised to let you know by Jan. 9 if we would update those plans. With record COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in North Carolina and around the country, we are making the following adjustments to our spring semester to provide as much flexibility as possible for a safe return to campus.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prepping for spring semester testing
“Forget what you’ve heard about nasal collection,” says UNC School of Medicine’s Amir Barzin about Carolina’s spring semester testing program. These tests are not brain ticklers.
By The Well, Friday, December 11th, 2020
On campus COVID19 testing at FPG Student Union on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. October 7, 2020.
(Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)
COVID-19 testing on campus is not new. The University began asymptomatic evaluation testing in September by offering saliva-based testing at the Carolina Union. But spring testing will be far more extensive and required for many undergraduates as part of the Carolina Together Testing Program.