CSC implements new compliance job

New COVID compliance agent to enforce campus compliance policies in NPAC

The Nelson Physical Activity Center has a new job opening for interested students according to Vice President of Enrollment Management, Marketing and Student Services Jon Hansen. 

“It’s a COVID compliance agent,” Hansen said. 

When the CSC campus opened back up to the public in late January, visitors in the NPAC increased. 

The NPAC COVID policies apply to students, staff, faculty and the public according to Hansen. 

“Now that we’ve got more than just students in there, we need to make sure that our policies and protocols for COVID are being followed,” he said. 

The implementation of the new position comes at a time when NPAC student desk workers report continued observation of people not wearing masks properly in the building.  

“I think it’s a pretty big problem,” Anna Werner, 21, Senior of Merino, CO, said. “When someone is in the middle of a set and it slips down, I understand that, but when they’re walking around with it below their mouth they should know better.” 

Hansen echoed Werner’s sentiment when describing which non-maskers are violating the mask policy. 

“I’m not talking about someone who takes their mask down to take a drink of water or to wipe their brow,” he said. “I’m talking about somebody pulling their mask down below their nose and leaving it there for a prolonged period of time.” 

Another NPAC desk worker, Kassidee Lind, 20, Junior of Burlington, WA, mentioned college students sometimes don’t respect the authority of student workers. When asked if students listen to desk workers’ requests to wear masks properly, she said: 

“Sometimes no,” she said. “Because they’re like; oh, you’re not someone who really enforces anything, if it was someone older probably.” 

Hansen says the requests by the new NPAC employee will not be unreasonable. 

“They’ll go up to them and ask them politely to wear their mask properly, and if they [visitor] can’t do that, then the next time they’ll be asked to leave for that day,” Hansen said.  

Additionally, Hansen says campus security will be contacted if people continue to refuse to follow direction of the employee.  

“If somebody wants to give that employee a hard time, then they will be calling campus security to come over and assist them with compliance of the policy,” he said.  

Funding for the new job is coming from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, from which the school still has unused funds.