Events guidelines

See additionally: Travel guidelines |  Visitor guidelines

Updated August 4, 2021

The following guidelines for occasions take impact August 16, 2021 till additional discover, are a part of the Protect Purdue Plan and have been developed to assist make sure the well being and security of the campus group. It is necessary to notice that these guidelines could also be modified because the COVID-19 scenario and corresponding federal, state, and native steerage continues to evolve.

On Campus Events (educational campus and different amenities in Tippecanoe County)

1. University-sponsored on-campus convocations and university-sponsored on-campus conferences will resume on October 1, 2021, and should observe all county and Protect Purdue guidelines which are in impact on the time of the occasion. 
2. All faculties, divisions, colleges, departments and different organizational items, together with acknowledged pupil organizations, planning conferences, gatherings or different occasions should observe all county and Protect Purdue guidelines which are in impact on the time of the occasion. The sponsoring unit is totally liable for guaranteeing their sponsored occasion is safely performed and complies with these guidelines. Approval is on the unit chief stage (Dean, Vice Provost, and so forth.) or their designee, and occasion approvers ought to maintain data of the occasion approval course of and attendees. Routine departmental conferences (e.g., workers conferences) are excluded from the required occasion approval course of.  In explicit: 
   1. Masks are required in any respect indoor occasions
   2. Dining occasions: 
      1. Boxed meals or prepackaged meals needs to be utilized and eating held outside to the extent doable.
      2. If doable, buffet model meals needs to be served by a person carrying each a face masks and disposable gloves. If no devoted server, hand sanitizing stations needs to be available for the diners to make use of previous to consuming. 
      3. If eating is held indoors, seating needs to be de-densified and distributed to the fullest extent and but accommodate attendees.
      4. Masks should be worn when not actively consuming or ingesting (in strains, whereas socializing, and so forth.).
3. Student organizations should have their occasion plan permitted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Life, which can guarantee the coed occasion is safely performed and complies with these guidelines. Activity approval begins via Student Activities and Organizations (SAO) by submitting an Activity Planning Form situated on BoilerLink.
4. Contractors and distributors supporting on campus occasions should adhere to the Protect Purdue and Tippecanoe County well being and security guidelines in place on campus on the time of their engagement.  In explicit: 
   1. Masks are required in any respect indoor occasions
   2. Dining occasions: 
      1. Boxed meals or prepackaged meals needs to be utilized and eating held outside to the extent doable.
      2. If doable, buffet model meals needs to be served by a person carrying each a face masks and disposable gloves. If no devoted server, hand sanitizing stations needs to be available for the diners to make use of previous to consuming. 
      3. If eating is held indoors, seating needs to be de-densified and distributed to the fullest extent and but accommodate attendees.
      4. Masks should be worn when not actively consuming or ingesting (in strains, whereas socializing, and so forth.).

Off Campus Events

1. Any University sponsored off-campus occasion, no matter dimension or funding supply, should adjust to all native journey, occasion dimension and public well being necessities. 
2. The sponsoring unit is liable for guaranteeing the occasion:
   1. Complies with all present federal, state, county and metropolis restrictions relating to journey, occasion dimension and social distancing necessities;
   2. Is held at a website that’s adequately insured, according to college threat administration guidelines;
   3. Has sufficient COVID-19 security plans;
   4. Is documented by a transparent settlement between the college and the occasion website;
   5. Includes a monetary plan assessing the monetary dangers of an occasion cancellation;
   6. Registers attendees via a single widespread system whereby:
      1. Safety necessities could be communicated to attendees;
      2. Event security compliance could be required of attendees beneath phrases and situations;
      3. Event workers and attendee contacts could be maintained for any wanted contract tracing actions; and
      4. Data associated to the occasion could be reported.
3. It is strongly really helpful that any unit sponsoring an off-campus occasion plan the occasion via Purdue Conferences, which may help with the required compliance and contracting necessities.
4. All Purdue workers who work or attend any off-campus occasion should comply with all required federal, state, native and occasion website well being and security guidelines in addition to the Protect Purdue Plan.
5. All Purdue Extension occasions are to comply with Extension steerage, which features a security plan that’s submitted three weeks earlier than the occasion.

NOTE: All Intercollegiate Athletics occasions will comply with NCAA and convention guidelines and guidelines.