At the 2024 CUWiP Conference hosted at the CUNY Graduate Center, the well-being of all attendees will be our highest priority.  All student attendees will receive a water bottle to help stay hydrated, have access to free face masks, and encouraged to let an organizer know if they feel unwell. 

Consistent with CUNY’s policy on COVID and vaccinations, we will neither require vaccinations nor face masks. However, we encourage all attendees to be up-to-date in their vaccinations and will have face masks freely available. 

Attendees will be informed well in advance of the conference that they must cancel their plans to come to CUNY if either (i) they have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of their planned arrival, (ii) they have COVID-like symptoms, or (iii) they were in close contact to someone with COVID-19 and have not been able to provide a negative test following that exposure. Additionally, after the conference, we will request that attendees notify us if they test positive for COVID-19 within five days after the event so that we may contact those who might have been exposed.

If an attendee develops flu-like symptoms during the conference, we will provide a COVID-19 self-test kit free of charge. At CUNY, self-test kits are freely available to all students, faculty, and staff. Should that supply of test kits not be adequate, we will purchase additional self-test kits for students.

If an attendee tests positive for COVID-19 during the conference, they will isolate at their home or at their hotel room. If that attendee has a roommate, we will move that roommate to a new hotel room for the remainder of the conference. We will notify those attendees who traveled or came into close contact with the person testing positive that they should take a COVID-19 test, monitor their symptoms, wear a mask when indoors and near others, and isolate if either they test positive or develop symptoms. 

For any attendee who tests positive for COVID-19 and has to isolate themselves in their hotel room, we will coordinate the delivery of food, medicine, and any other items that the attendee might need. That attendee will continue to receive self-test kits and remain in isolation until they test negative or arrange a way to travel home without putting anyone else at risk.