• Masks should be worn indoors at all times for the duration of the county/campus mask mandate. This should include lessons, rehearsals, and performances, including recitals.
• Woodwind and brass players may remove their masks to play their instruments in each of these settings, and should replace the mask while inactive.
• Singers in choral ensembles (including the opera chorus) will wear masks at all times, including in performance. Mitigation testing options may be employed.
• Singers in opera roles will have the option of performing without a mask. This will involve rehearsing masked until moving to the larger rehearsal spaces and, ultimately, the stage; social distancing will be practiced as much as possible in the unmasked settings, and mitigation testing options will be employed.
• Ballet dancers will rehearse masked in the smaller studios, and will rehearse and perform unmasked on the main stage; mitigation testing options may be employed.
• Singers in private lessons may sing unmasked, but all others present should be masked.
• Singers performing recitals may sing unmasked, but all others should be masked.
• Instructors may lecture unmasked if they can provide at least six feet of distance between themselves and the class.
• Students practicing alone in a practice room may do so unmasked.

There has been no recommendation to reduce room capacities or increase social distancing in classrooms or ensembles. Ensemble directors, coaches, and studio teachers may modify spacing as they see fit, within the constraints of the available space.

Audience sizes are not limited, and members of the public/family/friends are welcome to attend. Masks are required for all audience members, and UERC event approval (which includes an Emergency Action Plan) is in place for all public performances.

Practice rooms have been unlocked, as have all general-usage Jacobs School rooms. Practice times and rehearsal rooms may be scheduled according to pre-2020/21 policies, and “opportunistic” room usage (use of unscheduled spaces on a first-come, first-serve basis) is once again allowed.

Instructors cannot require students or colleagues to disclose their vaccination status, and students should adhere to the same. Classroom policies and practices may not be based on vaccination status.

The modality (in-person, online, hybrid) of a given course has been determined according to best instructional practices and should not be modified according to public health concerns unless the campus public health guidelines change. 

The Fall 2021 restart committee recommendations state that “public hygiene measures are effective and should be maintained” (page 10). These include regular cleaning and disinfecting of public spaces and high-touch surfaces. Hand sanitizing stations will be provided.

Use of outdoor spaces is still being determined for Fall 2021.

Indiana University and the Jacobs School of Music encourage all employees with job responsibilities that allow them to work from home to continue to do so. The goal is to lighten the on-campus population while continuing to provide our students with the best experience possible, whether on campus or online. https://fall2020.iu.edu/doc/iu-return-to-campus-guide.pdf

• Depends upon a few factors
  • The work you do: can you perform your job fully from home?
  • Your office/department plans to open and staff, either partially or fully.
  • Your personal needs related to COVID-19.

• Community Responsibility Acknowledgement (CRA)
  • Outlines the requirements of personal responsibility to the IU community: monitoring your health daily, reporting any symptoms through COVID-19 Health Services, wearing a mask, personal hygiene, physical distancing, cleaning workspace and touch areas, etc.
  • Required to be completed by all employees (whether home or on campus) before the start of the semester. Central Authentication System (CAS) interrupt is now deployed.
  • The section asking employees to disclose whether they have a preexisting condition and would like to request an accommodation has been removed. Instead, employees can check a box if they’d like to learn more about accommodations by speaking with an ADA specialist, which can be requested at any time.

• Go home if you are on campus.
• Contact COVID-19 Health Services to have your symptoms evaluated, have a virtual visit with a health care provider, and possibly be tested.
• Log into One.IU, and enter COVID-19 Health Services in the search box. Click on the tile, and follow the step-by-step instructions.

Complete the fireform, or send an email to avppsia@iu.edu. May be completed by the affected individual or someone on their behalf.

The university will follow up with any action.

• Healthy IU: https://healthy.iu.edu/
• SupportLinc EAP: https://hr.iu.edu/benefits/eap.html
  • https://hr.iu.edu/benefits/pubs/misc/eap-services-accesspoints.pdf