Shaping the future

Just like our NMSU Ready plan, this is a living document, informed by plans from our colleges and service units, and continues to be subject to changing guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New Mexico Department of Health, and our own NMSU experts. We also expect to continue to hear from you about ways that it can be refined and improved. Please visit our revamped site, now.nmsu.edu, to keep up with updates to the plan, and subscribe to our weekly NMSU Now Pandemic Action Team Report.

What's inside the plan?

Key updates and quick-reference information

Reporting and responding to a positive case

Coming back to campus in January 2021

Using data to understand COVID-19 in our community

Communication and information sharing

Personal Responsibility

Travel Guidelines

Facility Readiness

Instructional Readiness

Aggie Student Life

Protecting Your Health & Safety

Guidelines for Campus Visitors and Events

Facts about COVID-19

Documenting our planning and decisions

Helpful Resources

Report a positive COVID-19 Case

For Faculty

COVID-19 Classroom Management Info (Provost's Memo)
Online Technologies for Instructional Continuity (COVID-19)

Shaping the Future

Shaping the Future

New Mexico State University is, first and foremost, a learning environment, and we have learned much about the global COVID-19 pandemic throughout the past year. We learned even more about the novel coronavirus in its various forms: how it spreads and how to reduce that spread. We learned about our students: how they have adapted and how to address their needs. We learned about our workforce: how we have responded to the pandemic with resilience and resourcefulness. We learned that we can meet the challenge of carrying out our mission as an academic institution.

More challenges are ahead, and among them is assisting in the vaccination effort for our community and state. The December approval of two vaccines for the coronavirus was a crucial milestone, and we are optimistic that this will have a significant impact on our well-being throughout 2021.

We know that this change will not happen overnight; there are still limited vaccines available and much to learn about the vaccine’s long-term ability to reduce the effects of the coronavirus. But we do know that the habits we’ve established – mask-wearing, hand-washing, sanitizing, maintaining distance between people and avoiding large groups – will help keep us healthy in the months to come. Our university system will apply everything we have learned as we move into the spring semester. We’ll continue to employ the strategies and tactics that kept the rate of infection on our campus low, especially in our learning spaces, where we found no evidence of spread of the virus.

NMSU Now reflects our transformation into a community that successfully managed the spread of this virus and is focused on our commitment to our Land Grant mission. We move forward confident in our ability to shape the future of education in a post-COVID-19 world.

Just like our NMSU Ready plan, this is a living document, informed by plans from our colleges and service units, and continues to be subject to changing guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New Mexico Department of Health, and our own NMSU experts. We also expect to continue to hear from you about ways that it can be refined and improved. Please visit our new site, now.nmsu.edu, to keep up with updates to the plan, and subscribe to our weekly NMSU Now Pandemic Action Team Report.

Sincerely,

Dan E. Arvizu
Chancellor

John D. Floros
President

NMSU NOW Our dynamic pandemic action plan

Our dynamic pandemic action plan

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Shaping the Future

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