Action Steps

Essential Personnel, Operations, and Services

Ithaca College will establish a system to rapidly identify essential personnel, operations and services relative to the College’s mission and objectives.

  • Any College employee may be considered essential in a pandemic emergency. Key essential emergency personnel may include
    • AVP for Human Resources
    • Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management
    • Director of Health Services
    • Director of Residential Life and Judicial Affairs
    • Associate Director of Media Relations
    • AVP for Facilities
    • AVP for Business and Finance
    • Vice Presidents
    • Managers in the HR office and necessary staff
    • Manager of payroll and necessary staff
    • President’s Office
    • Facilities staff sufficient to keep buildings, campus roadways, etc., open and useable for current needs.
    • ITS staff sufficient to meet campus needs
    • Residential Life and Dining Service staff sufficient for number of students remaining on campus
    • Sufficient Public Safety staff
    • Caretakers for laboratory animals
    • Sufficient Accounts Payable staff
    • Sufficient Media Relations staff
    • Health Services staff sufficient to meet the healthcare needs of students remaining on campus
    • CERT Working Group members
       
  • Vice Presidents and Directors will be responsible for the pre-event planning of essential personnel in collaboration with the Office of Human Resources, and for final decisions regarding essential staffing based upon actual pandemic emergency details.
  • Essential personnel will be expected to report to work or remain at work for their regularly scheduled hours, and possibly beyond, or until the emergency is over.
  • The College will implement a fair and equitable compensation system for essential and non-essential personnel during the pandemic emergency period.