Coronavirus Updates and Resources

Any student who is planning to come to any MassBay campus and/or affiliated clinical sites will need to provide documentation proving they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, absent an approved reasonable accommodation, such as a photo of their vaccination card. This applies to the following students:

• Students enrolled in any on-campus class;
• Students who seek to access any on-campus services; and
• Students who are required by program or activity to be vaccinated as a condition of participation (e.g. athletics, clinical placements).

There is a two-step process for MassBay students, faculty, and staff to gain access to the MassBay campus:

STEP 1: Download MassBayGo, the MassBay mobile app. Search MassBay Community College in your App Store to find it. You will use the My Campus Pass title to enter MassBay buildings. If you have the old MyMassBay app on your phone, please delete it.

STEP 2: Upload your proof of COVID vaccination document. Follow the instructions:

Short how-to-video for Students →

Short how-to-video for Faculty and Staff →

Students can find more information here: www.massbay.edu/immunization

Guests coming to campus for any reason must be fully vaccinated, absent an approved reasonable accommodation. To provide proof of vaccination, at least 48 hours before your visit, please fill out the MassBay Guest Pass Form. Enter your name and email, and use the Form to upload a photo of your vaccination card. Once your Form and photo have been reviewed and approved, you will receive an email from our partner, Ready Education, with a green checkmark. You must show that green checkmark at the entrance to enter our buildings. 

On the Wellesley campus, students, faculty, staff, and guests with a green checkmark may use the main entrance by the circle driveway and flagpole or the breezeway doors. Individuals using special accommodation parking should enter via the breezeway doors. The North Door, across from the Recreation & Wellness Center is exit only. In Framingham, all members of the MassBay community and guests must use the entrance near the flagpole and check in at the security desk next to the MassBay Office of Public Safety.

The policies and procedures below are currently in place but are subject to change as the conditions of the pandemic evolve and as federal and state guidelines change.

Masks are encouraged but not required in our buildings. Free KN95 and surgical masks are available at entrances. Understanding the wearing of masks is a choice, we ask all members of the MassBay community to treat one another with compassion and respect, whether someone chooses to wear a mask or not. 

While masks are optional in general, you may be required to wear a mask for a set period of time after being exposed to COVID-19 or following your recover from COVID-19, in accordance with current public health guidelines.

Restricted access. All guests must show proof of vaccination before coming to campus, absent an approved reasonable accommodation.

Guests coming to campus for any reason must be fully vaccinated, absent an approved reasonable accommodation. To provide proof of vaccination, at least 48 hours before your visit, please use the MassBay Guest Pass Form. Use the Form to upload a photo of your vaccination card. Once your Form and photo are reviewed and approved, you will receive an email from our partner, Ready Education, with a green checkmark. Please be prepared to show that green checkmark at the entrance to gain entry into our buildings.

Anyone from the MassBay community who intends to invite a guest to campus is asked to share this policy with their guest. Again, 48 hours’ notice is required to clear a guest to come to campus.

• Guests may not accompany students into the classrooms unless approved in advance by Accessibility Resources.

MassBay administrative offices will be open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm on the Wellesley Hills campus, and Monday to Thursday from 9am to 5pm on the Framingham campus for the spring 2023 semester. 

Students will also be able to access services remotely by visiting: https://www.massbay.edu/studentresources.

MassBay will continue to offer virtual events for all students as well as in-person events for vaccinated students who are in compliance with the College's vaccination policy. 

Student clubs will have the option to either meet in person, continue to meet virtually, or have hybrid meetings/events.

For more information on Student Life, please visit: https://www.massbay.edu/studentengagement

For a listing of college events, please visit the Online Event calendar:

https://mbccweb.massbay.edu/virtualmeetings →

For more information about MassBay clubs, please visit: https://www.massbay.edu/clubs

The RWC is open. Users must check in using the QR code feature on the MassBayGo mobile app to gain access.

On-campus special events that can safely be held will be approved. Contact the MassBay Special Events Manager, Jessica Merisier, for more information and to apply to hold your event on campus: jmerisier@massbay.edu.

Students who are only taking online courses, whether full or part-time, credit or non-credit, and who will not access campus for any reason, such as instruction, advising, and/or other purposes; and any indivudual who has an approved reasonable accommodation are not required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. 

For more information regarding accomodations, please review the College's COVID Vaccination Policy (Student COVID Vaccination Policy; Employee Vaccination Policy).

Coronavirus Resources