Information for students
This page covers the following topics:
- Current COVID health requirements
- If you test positive for COVID
- Classes and instruction
- COVID-19 isolation procedures
- International students
- Compliance with COVID protocols
- UCLA Ashe Center services
- Well-being resources
COVID health checklist: What do I need to do?
For all current COVID-19–related health requirements and recommendations — including information on vaccines, isolation procedures and testing resources — please see:
If you test positive for COVID
If you test positive on or off campus, you should contact the Exposure Management Team below. Likewise, if you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and have been in contact with an infected person, call the number.
For students
Exposure Management Team
310-206-6217
exposuremanagementteam@ashe.ucla.edu
Campus health officials will then will then provide you with an individualized assessment, including instructions on isolation and further testing, and will notify individuals identified as close contacts (as capacity allows).
Classes and instruction
While in-person learning is the norm, instructors also strive to create course structures that are flexible enough to accommodate students’ COVID-19–related absences, including assessments that can easily be completed by students who missed class and which can be transferred to a remote environment if remote instruction becomes necessary.
If you have to miss class
Some students may have to miss class due to COVID-19 isolation protocols. Instructors are committed to accommodating students who can’t be in class through video or audio streaming or recordings, makeup assignments and assessments, alternative projects, or other means. Students’ absences due to isolation should not factor into any attendance component of their final grade.
If you are severely sick with COVID-19, you may qualify as temporarily disabled and receive support from the Center for Accessible Education following an interactive process with your instructor.
Accessibility for students with disabilities
UCLA is committed to ensuring that students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to participate in the rich academic experience UCLA offers. The UCLA Center for Accessible Education will work closely with students and instructors to determine appropriate accommodations and develop a plan tailored to the needs of students in each their courses.
The UCLA Office of Information Technology’s Disabilities and Computing Program also helps to ensure that faculty and students are aware of accessible best practices and that academic content is available and understandable to all.
COVID-19 isolation procedures
UCLA is following Los Angeles County Department of Public Health guidelines (PDF) on isolation for students who test positive for COVID-19. These guidelines apply to all students, regardless of their vaccination status.
If you are symptomatic: If you test positive and are symptomatic or feverish, you must isolate wherever you live until (1) you have been fever-free for 24 hours without medication and/or (2) your other symptoms are mild or improving.
While isolating, you should not have visitors, and you must wear a highly protective mask around others — including those you live with — as well as when obtaining food, picking up mail or doing laundry.
Even after your isolation period, you must continue to mask for 10 days from the onset of your symptoms. (It is recommended that you test again before returning to normal campus activities.)
If you are asymptomatic: If you test positive but have no symptoms, you may remain involved in regular campus activities but must wear a highly protective mask for 10 days after your positive test.
Masking exceptions: You may remove your mask before completing the 10-day requirement if you test negative twice, 24 hours apart.
See more on UCLA’s isolation procedures page.
International students
For detailed information about enrollment, F-1 and J-1 visa requirements, and international travel, please visit the UCLA Dashew Center for International Students.
Vaccinations
International students are encouraged to get vaccinated, including in their home countries. However, only vaccines that have been granted emergency use authorization by the World Health Organization meet the university’s current vaccination policy.
International students who cannot obtain a vaccine that has been approved or granted emergency use authorization by the WHO are encouraged to plan ahead and schedule an appointment for a COVID vaccine upon arrival in the United States.
Compliance with campus COVID protocols
There may be times when students or others continuously ignore campus health and safety protocols. Repeated student violations should be reported to the Office of Student Conduct at dean@saonet.ucla.edu or 310-825-3871. In addition, reports of violations may be made anonymously through UCLA’s whistleblower hotline at 800-403-4744.
If faculty members or TAs demonstrate repeated noncompliance with health and safety protocols, a complaint can be made to the instructor’s department chair, divisional dean, academic personnel officer or the dean of students.
UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center
The Ashe Center is open the following hours (and closed on weekends):
- Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: 8 a.m.–1 p.m., 2 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
- Wednesday: 8 a.m.–12:30 p.m., 2 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
- Friday: 9 a.m.–1 p.m., 2 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
If you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 or have been in contact with someone confirmed to have been infected, immediately call the Exposure Management Team at 310-206-6217.
More Ashe Center resources:
Well-being and counseling
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is open during regular business hours, providing all services through telehealth. In a crisis, 24/7 support is always available by phone at 310-825-0768.
Further resources are available on this site’s Emotional, Social and Physical Well-Being page.
