Attendance and Class Cancellation

Refer to Student Attendance Policy and individual course outlines. See below for information regarding attendance at clinical.

Please consider the information from NYS noted below and refer to the MCC COVID-19 website (https://www.monroecc.edu/coronavirus) regarding clinical attendance.

(Follow agency and CDC guidelines during COVID-19 pandemic)

Evaluation of acute/incubating illnesses in health care workers:
Symptoms which need evaluation for work fitness include: fever, chills, cough, sputum production, exanthems, vesicles, skin lesions, weeping dermatitis, draining wounds, sores and diarrhea. Students with these symptoms should not attend clinical laboratory.

Post-exposure evaluation for incubating diseases in susceptibles:
These illnesses require evaluation for disease occurrence whenever a susceptible health care worker is exposed: mumps, pertussis, rubella, rubeola, tuberculosis, varicella.

Interim management strategies which may be employed during the evaluation period may include:

1. limiting contact with susceptibles
2. furlough until noninfectious
3. evaluation and treatment as needed

If the College is closed due to inclement weather or some other emergency, all Rochester area radio and television stations will be notified no later than 5:30 a.m. or in the case of a mid-day decision, no later than 3:00 p.m. In addition, the homepage on the MCC website (www.monroecc.edu) will display a message indicating the College is closed or classes are cancelled. Please do not call the College to avoid overloading the telephone lines.

In the event of an emergency, such as a campus evacuation or closure, severe weather alert, fire in a building, hazardous material incident, etc., where time-sensitive, proactive actions need to be communicated, the MCC Alert System will be utilized to provide immediate notification to all MCC students and employees who have opted to receive such alerts. Those who sign up for alerts can choose to receive emergency messages via a variety of communication technologies, such as email (college and/or personal accounts), and audio and/or text message to a campus, home or cell phone, fax, etc.

Learn more about the MCC Alert System.

Information regarding class cancellation is available daily through the following:

• on the Class Cancellations webpage
• through the myMCC portal.

Additionally, class cancellation information is available by dialing . If possible, please use the web, as there could be delays in the voice recordings based on the number of cancellations.