COVID-19

Keeping you healthy in the nest

With the help of local health officials and the actions of our students, faculty and staff, HCC’s COVID-19 response plan has demonstrated success in keeping our College safe.

Strategy

COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Information

Travel Guidance

Coronavirus Updates

Student FAQs

Face Covering and Cleaning Protocols

COVID Campus Resource Persons & Kiosks

Funds for Students

COVID-19 Community Risk Level

Message from the President

The landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shift as Hillsborough County (along with most of the country) is now living in what is considered to be an endemic response to COVID-19. Variants of the virus are now very present within our communities and Hillsborough County is now at a high level of community infection.

Due to the high infection rate, Emergency Paid Sick Leave (EPSL) has been reinstated for COVID-related illness as of July 19. Employees will be eligible for up to 75 hours of EPSL and once expended, will be ineligible for additional EPSL. Employees utilizing EPSL will be required to provide a doctor’s note to Kim Pasquinelli, kpasquinelli@hccfl.edu, in Human Resources.

We would strongly encourage you to continue to utilize those public health strategies that you deem appropriate including mask use (when appropriate), vaccination, hand washing and effective COVID-19 treatments.

While the Hawk Tracing Protocol has been discontinued, the College will continue to provide COVID-19 prevention resources throughout our campuses. These include:

Maintaining our COVID-19 Campus Resource Persons team to monitor the state of the endemic, assist with policy issues related to COVID-19 and work with individual campus leadership with COVID-related inquiries.
Continuing to fully stock our COVID-19 Kiosks.
Providing the HCC community with the latest COVID-19 information and community-based resources.
Our COVID-19 Campus Resource Persons will remain available to answer your questions.

The Back To The Nest webpages will continue to be the repository for all HCC COVID-19-related information including vaccination and testing sites.

HCC continues with the “if you are sick, stay home” policy. Individuals should follow CDC recommendations related to exposure and quarantine for COVID-19 and the flu. We are also developing further guidelines for faculty, staff and students to follow when this occurs. If you feel ill, please contact your instructor, supervisor or dean/manager and do not come to campus.

Dr. Ken Atwater

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Disclaimer

This Back to Campus Plan was created to provide enhanced health and safety measures for the HCC community, with the intention of mitigating the risk of COVID-19 and any potential spread in our campuses and facilities. However, we acknowledge that the elimination of risk on campus—while operating some on-campus classes, athletics, instruction and events—is impossible.

An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. COVID-19 is an extremely contagious disease that can lead to severe illness and death. According to the CDC, certain individuals, including those with underlying medical conditions, are especially vulnerable.

By engaging in the HCC community through academics, instruction or employment, you acknowledge and voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19.

You can help keep our HCC community healthy by being mindful of your actions and following the health and safety protocols provided in this plan and in other communications.