Updates to the Mask Policy on Campus

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff,

During yesterday’s Dartmouth Community Conversation, Interim Provost David Kotz ’86 announced two immediate adjustments to relax the current indoor masking policy requirement:

• Vaccinated residents of on-campus housing who have no symptoms, have not been identified as a close contact, nor have been notified of special circumstances that dictate an exception to the policy, may now remove their masks anywhere inside their residence hall or Greek house, with approval from the host.
   
• Two vaccinated individuals—again, who have no symptoms—may remove masks for a one-on-one indoor meeting, if both parties are comfortable doing so, and as long as neither has been identified as a close contact or are subject to special circumstances.

 What this means at Tuck is that fully vaccinated students living on-campus who have no symptoms and have not been identified as a close contact to a COVID positive case can remove their masks once they reach the residence hall floors of Raether Hall (Achtmeyer and Pineau-Valencienne), Whittemore Hall, and Buchanan Hall, as often marked by keycard access points. In all other indoor common spaces on campus such as McLaughlin Atrium and Cohen Great Hall, face coverings are required – except for when actively eating or drinking – regardless of vaccination status.

Thank you, 

Paul 
Paul D. Mutone | Chief Financial & Administrative Officer