{"id":1952,"date":"2021-10-19T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:55:38","slug":"troy-university-updates-covid-mask-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/10\/19\/troy-university-updates-covid-mask-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University updates COVID mask policy."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Masks are now optional inside campus buildings and facilities at <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY updated the schools mask policy effective Monday, October 18. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While masks are optional there is one exception, faculty members may still require masks inside instructional spaces and faculty offices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They will have to communicate with their students in their classes to let them know what their decision is, if they&#8217;re going to wear a mask or if they&#8217;re going to make it mask optional,&#8221; says Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dr. Lance Tatum. &#8220;No one will have the ability to completely mandate the removal of the mask. So if students want to wear the mask in a classroom they&#8217;ll be able to do that. If faculty want the students in their class to wear a mask, they&#8217;ll be able to do that but they also have the flexibility to make it optional.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on the updated mask policy you can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\/coronavirus\">troy.edu\/coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full story watch Claudia&#8217;s report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masks are now optional inside campus buildings and facilities at Troy University.<\/p>\n<p>TROY updated the schools mask policy effective Monday, October 18. <\/p>\n<p>While masks are optional there is one exception, faculty members may still require masks inside instructional spaces and faculty offices. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will have to communicate with their students in their classes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/10\/19\/troy-university-updates-covid-mask-policy\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,237,238,37,235,730],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-claudia-peppenhorst","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-task-force","tag-covid-19","tag-lance-tatum","tag-mask-policy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}