黑料正能量 will continue to require individuals to wear masks on its campus in the Spring 2022 semester.
WCC employees, students, and visitors must wear masks indoors through at least mid-January when the college will next review its COVID-19 precautions.
鈥淲e will start the semester in masks,鈥� said President Patty Pfeiffer. 鈥淭he college鈥檚 Pandemic Response Team will evaluate the situation, including the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) county-level positivity rate, every 30 days beginning on Jan. 13.鈥�
Wayne County is currently rated as having a 鈥渉igh level of community transmission鈥� by the CDC.
Yesterday the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported the highest one-day number of COVID-19 cases and that the number of individuals currently hospitalized with COVID-19 has nearly doubled since the beginning of December.
The mask mandate is one of several protocols the college has in place to keep everyone who comes onto the campus healthy. It follows CDC guidance in its monitoring of those with symptoms and exposures and other processes that provide protection against the virus and its variants.
WCC has taken a proactive approach to protecting the health and safety of all of its constituencies throughout the pandemic, said Pfeiffer. 鈥淲e have kept the campus safe,鈥� she said, noting that the college has had no infection clusters and minimal reported exposures.
This spring semester, WCC is returning to full classroom capacity for classes taught wholly or in some part face-to-face through traditional, blended, or hybrid instruction. The college offers 39 percent of its courses completely online.
黑料正能量 is a public, learning-centered institution with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, the college serves 10,000 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry, and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 165 college credit programs. WCC鈥檚 mission is to meet the educational, training, and cultural needs of the communities it serves.