From: Silverman, Nancy <NSilverman@qgc.cuny.edu>

Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:42 PM

To: Silverman, Nancy <NSilverman@gc.cuny.edu>

Ce: Chuh, Kandice <kchuh@gc.cuny.edu>
Subject: FW: Student traveling home to international countries

From: Berman, Sheila

Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:40 PM

Subject: Student traveling home to international countries
Importance: High

Dear Executive Officers and Assistant Program Officers,
Please forward the following information to all your students.

CUNY has requested that all students who will be traveling abroad during the remainder of the
Spring semester, even if returning to their home countries, enter their travel information

into CUNY-GOso there will be a university-wide listing of all students who have left the
country. This will make it easier for all to be contacted with updates and necessary
information. Below is an excerpt from the University’s Coronavirus update sent March 12, 2020
from Chancellor Matos Rodriguez.

Also, please have these students send an email to our office with their travel itinerary including
destination, departure (and possible return dates) and with any non-GC personal email address.

Please be in contact with our office if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Sheila

Sheila Berman

Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs
The Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

212/817-7400

studentaffairs@gc.cuny.edu

httos:/www.cuny.edu/coronavirus/#travel

Planning for and returning from international travel
Following CDC guidelines, everyone in the CUNY community is strongly advised to
avoid all nonessential travel to countries under a CDC Level 3 warning and generally


use common sense in making travel plans during these challenging times. Anyone with
international travel plans should check the CDC’s Travel Health Notices for the latest
guidance and recommendations for the country of travel.

The U.S. government has taken strict measures regarding coronavirus. Foreign
nationals, with exceptions for permanent residents and certain others, who have visited

China or Iran in the past 14 days will be denied entry into the United States. U.S.
citizens and others who have visited China or lran in the past 14 days may

face quarantine and/or testing for the virus. Measures to quarantine and/or test travelers
from other impacted countries may be implemented.

To protect the CUNY community, we ask that all employees and students who are
traveling abroad for reasons other than study abroad (vacation, business trips,
sabbaticals, etc.) register their itineraries with CUNY-GO. To ensure a timely response,
employees returning from countries designated as Level 2 or 3 by the CDC are also
asked to contact their Human Resources office by phone or email before returning to
work. All students returning from study abroad or travel to countries designated as Level
2 or 3 are asked to contact the Study Abroad Office of their campus before returning to
campus. Offices supporting group travel should continue to submit Trip Proposals and

provide risk management reporting as usual.

Work-related travel for CUNY employees

In accordance with the recommendations from the CDC that travelers avoid all
nonessential travel to countries designated by the CDC as Level 3, and cautions against
high-risk travelers to countries with a Level 2 designation, the State of New York is
prohibiting all work-related employee travel to Level 3 countries (currently China, Iran,
Italy and South Korea) and Level 2 (Japan) until further notice.