Responding to COVID-19

For information about the University's response to COVID-19 and Penn resources, visit Wellness at Penn. If you are not already receiving Weitzman community announcements about changes to our operations at your Penn email account, contact ithelp@design.upenn.edu.

Masking is always an option for anyone who chooses to wear a mask for any reason. In addition, masks are recommended in indoor public settings for individuals with underlying medical conditions that make them more vulnerable to severe disease. Individual instructors may decide to require students to wear masks in their classroom and those who do should make that clear on their syllabus and to their students in the classroom. Students are required to comply with the masking requirements established by their instructors.

Masks are available in the Operations and Planning Office in Meyerson Hall, Room G29.

For the 2023-2024 Academic Year, the University will no longer be requiring the COVID-19 and flu immunizations for all students. Visit Wellness at Penn for more information.

• Stay home if you’re sick.
• Wash your hands throughout the day for at least 20 seconds using soap and running water.
• Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, or with your upper sleeve if you don’t have a tissue.

Contact the Division of Public Safety 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at 215.573.3333 or dial 511 from a campus phone.

The PennComm operations center supports non-English speakers with the use of AT&T’s Language Line, which permits ESL speakers to contact the emergency number and communicate with an emergency dispatcher in over 120 different languages. Additionally, the Language Line can be employed by any UPPD officer in a face-to-face interaction, where the ESL speaker can request to communicate to the Penn Police in his/her own native language via a phone call.

If you are not already subscribed to receive UPenn Alert electronic notifications, you are urged to do so by visiting the Office of Public Safety website.