Residence Halls COVID-19 Protocols

For students who live on-campus in residence halls, the CDC and Pacific have shifted protocols to treat COVID-19 infection more like infection with other communicable illness such as flu or respiratory illnesses.

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Guidance for Residential Students Who Test Positive for COVID

Students who are experiencing symptoms are encouraged to contact the Student & Employee Health Center for care. The Symptom & Exposure Reporting Form is no longer required for undergraduate students.

If you do not share a bedroom: Confine yourself to your bedroom as much as possible for five days, following masking guidelines below. You may leave isolation on Day 6 if you are feeling better and do not have a fever. Wear a KN95 mask for an additional five days. Examples of this type of housing include having a single bedroom in a campus apartment or having a single room in Walter, McCormick or Cascade.

  • Wear a KN95 mask: 
    • when you are outside of your bedroom, such as using the bathroom within your hall.
    • when you go to pick up your food. Eat in your bedroom; do not eat in the dining hall.
    • A limited supply of KN-95 masks are available from Student Affairs in Clark Hall.
  • Do not attend class; notify your professors of your positive test and that you will be absent. 
  • Do not attend other in-person activities such as work, hanging out with friends, or athletics.
  • Please contact your health care provider for more guidance.

If you do share a bedroom with a roommate: You should confine yourself as much as possible for five days in one of these locations:

  • Your residence hall bedroom,
  • A room at an off-campus location (i.e. returning home),
  • Or request to move to an on-campus Temporary Room

You may leave isolation on Day 6 if you are feeling better and do not have a fever. Wear a KN95 mask for an additional five days. Examples of this types of housing that involve sharing a bedroom include sharing a double or triple room in Burlingham, Gilbert, Walter, McCormick, or Cascade.

  • Wear a KN95 mask: 
    • When you are outside of your bedroom, such as using the bathroom within your hall.
    • When you go to pick up your food. Eat in your bedroom; do not eat in the dining hall.
    • A limited supply of KN-95 masks are available from Student Affairs in Clark Hall.
  • Do not attend class; notify your professors of your positive test and that you will be absent. 
  • Do not attend other in-person activities such as work, hanging out with friends, or athletics.
  • Please contact your health care provider for more guidance.

Guidance for Roommates of Students Who Have Tested Positive for COVID

If you do not share a bedroom: You may go about your regular routines. Monitor yourself for symptoms and test again in five days.

If you do share a bedroom with a roommate: You may go about your regular routines. Monitor yourself for symptoms and test again in five days. You can choose to stay in one of these locations:

  • Your residence hall bedroom,
  • A room at an off-campus location (i.e. returning home),
  • Or request to move to an on-campus Temporary Room 

Temporary Room Information

Temporary Rooms provide students an option to have their own bedrooms space while they or their bedroom-roommate is recovering from COVID-related illness. Temporary rooms are available on a limited basis and are not available for ill students or roommates of ill students who already have their own bedrooms.

Temporary rooms require students to bring their own linens (sheets, blankets, pillows), clothing, toiletries, medications, and academic materials.

In order to gain access to a temporary room, contact the following resources depending on the day and time:

  • Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Contact the Student Affairs Office at 503-352-2200
  • Monday - Friday, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. or Saturday - Sunday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. | Contact your hall’s RA on Call
    • Burlingham, Gilbert, Vandervelden, call 971-275-2028
    • McCormick, Walter, Cascade, call 971-275-2027
  • Outside of these hours: Isolate in place until these resources are available to assist you with a temporary room.

Students’ stays in these rooms are temporary and they must return to their typical housing assignment once the end of the ill roommate’s five days of isolation or their symptoms have resolved with no fever for 24 hours. Return all temporary room keys to the Student Affairs office in Clark Hall.

In the event temporary rooms have limited availability, priority will be given to roommates who are immunocompromised, which includes: being unvaccinated, chronic lung disease, cystic fibrosis, severe asthma, chronic kidney disease, liver disease, heart failure, diabetes, pregnancy, cancer, organ transplant, actively taking immunosuppressive medications, HIV, and/or primary immunodeficiency disease.