Dear Trinidad State Campus Community,
Our college campuses will discontinue our indoor mask mandate on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 as COVID-19 cases throughout our service area and state continue to fall.
As COVID seems to be shifting from a pandemic to an endemic, with fewer cases and especially fewer cases involving serious illness, it made sense for us to re-evaluate our prevention measures. In following the guidance of public health officials, we continue to encourage masks in indoor public spaces for those who are unvaccinated.
I’d like to thank everyone who has followed our mask mandate over these many months. I firmly believe adherence to all COVID protocols contributed to the success we’re seeing in battling the pandemic on both campuses.
This may be an appropriate time to pause and reflect, mourn those who died or greatly suffered. The pandemic has taken such a toll, and it may not be over. This virus is tremendously unpredictable, and our future protocols will respond to whatever new threats we face. But given the trend of case numbers and the hopeful predictions of health experts, the Leadership team supports this change to remove the indoor mask mandate effective March 1.
Wishing good health to all,
Rhonda
Rhonda M. Epper, Ph.D. | President
Trinidad State College
Greg Boyce
Communications Specialist
Trinidad State College
Cell 719 821-6397
