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Union Policies, Covenants, and Handbooks
Community Health Covenant
We, the members of the Union community covenant together to be considerate and mindful of one another’s health and wellbeing. We will respect one another and engage with each other with understanding and compassion. We will work, study and live together as a community with a continued commitment to our shared responsibility for community health and welfare, founded in knowledge and grounded in mutual respect.
The health and wellbeing of our Union community is our highest priority and requires the effort of the entire Union family. All of us at Union—students, faculty, administration, staff, and trustees—commit to doing what we can to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 within and around Union and to promote health and wellbeing for all our members and neighbors.
As members of the Union community, each of us commits to:
- Continue to follow basic health precautions including frequent handwashing/sanitizing and comply with all requirements to use face coverings and to socially distance
- Respect each individual’s choice to employ broader masking or social distancing measures than might be required and to make every effort to honor those choices without judgment
- Respect the needs of all our residents in our shared living spaces and common areas
- Participate in testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine protocols, when required
- Respect all visitor and security procedures in the academic building and residence halls
- Follow all other Union policies and procedures
As an institution Union pledges to:
- Employ rigorous cleaning and sanitizing throughout the campus.
- Communicate all changes to public health protocols in a timely manner
- Support vaccination, testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine protocols in coordinationwith our partners at Columbia Health
- Provide access to other health and wellbeing resources such as access to mental healthresources and personal protective equipment, as well as shared community programming and shared use of community space
A just community is a healthy and life-giving community. Let us all pledge to fostering a just Union Community. Let’s stay healthy together.
Non-Discrimination Policy
Union welcomes all persons and is committed through language and practice to cultivate an inclusive community. Union admits students regardless of age, color, national or ethnic origins, familial composition, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, racial, ethnic, caste, cultural and gender identities and expressions, religious affiliation, faith tradition, socio-economic status, and disability. Students have access to all the rights, privileges, and programs Union makes available to students. Union does not discriminate on the basis of any of these factors in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarships and loan programs, or other programs administered by the Seminary. The Seminary is committed to providing an environment where students, faculty, and staff can enjoy the full benefits of the above policy.
Privacy Policy
Use of Links
Throughout our Web pages, we provide links to other servers which may contain information of interest to our readers. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organizations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other servers.
Use of Text & Images
If you would like to publish information that you find on our Web site, please send your request to [email protected]. Where text or images are posted on our site with the permission of the original copyright holder, a copyright statement appears at the bottom of the page.
Accessibility
This Web site is designed to be accessible to visitors with disabilities, and to comply with federal guidelines concerning accessibility. We welcome your comments. If you have suggestions on how to make the site more accessible, please contact us at [email protected].
Privacy Policy
We have created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. We do not collect personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. This policy is your guide to how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our Web site.
Reading or Downloading
We collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account, or princeton.edu if you are connecting from Princeton University’s domain); the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked to our site.
We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.
Online Profile Updates and Donations
If you complete the Profile update form and share your personally identifying information, this information will be use only to provide you with more target content. We may use your contact information to send further information about our organization or to contact you when necessary. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the “Opt Out” section below.
Sending us an Email
You also may decide to send us personally identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a Web form that provides us this information. We use personally identifying information from email primarily to respond to your requests. We may forward your e-mail to other employees who are better able to answer you questions. We may also use your email to contact you in the future about our programs that may be of interest.
We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties.
If you sign up for one of our email lists, we’ll only send you the kinds of information you’ve requested. We won’t share your name or email address with any outside parties.
Kids and Privacy
For children who visit our site, special rules apply. We do not request personal information about children, such as first and last name or street address and city. When kids send email to us, their online contact information (email address) is not used to re-contact them and is not maintained in retrievable form.
Opt-Out or Change Your Contact Information
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from through a special online form. You may choose to receive only specific communications or none at all. You may also update your contact information previously provided to us through another online form. You can not remove yourself from our database, but you can prevent unwanted communication.
Questions about Our Policies
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us at [email protected].
Updated Covid-19 Policy
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