Improve check-in surveys and guidelines

Pierce College and the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) have struggled to convey clear COVID guidelines during the 2021 fall semester, leading to some confusion.

One major issue comes from the daily questionnaire that the LACCD requires all on-campus visitors to take before they enter one of the nine colleges.

When the semester began in late August, the questionnaire that visitors needed to answer could be found on top of the Pierce College website’s homepage. The old link is still up on the website.

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“Mydreamjobistobeaprofessor ofpoliticalscience.Ijustseethat alotofpeoplearemisguidedor theygetdisinformationonhow thegovernmentworks,soIwant tolearnmoreonteachinghowthe systemworkstootherpeople.”

This feeling was further exacerbated after a districtwide press release on Sept. 8 revealed that all guests visiting campus needed instead to answer a daily questionnaire that is provided daily only through individual LACCD emails by district partner Biocept starting on Sept.13.

Upon completing the questionnaire, students are told that they may be required to show proof of completion to gain access to campus. But there appears to be no policy in place to check that anyone entering campus has completed the Green Pass.

By itself, not having anybody check a student for proof isn’t a problem.

But not having somebody check your proof when the website states that it may be required to gain entry makes students feel like they are doing something wrong.

The only way to access the Biocept email questionnaire is by checking your LACCD email and looking for a daily reminder that gets sent to you.

Many students have only used the old questionnaire on the website homepage because they don’t know that this questionnaire is no longer valid.

A recent press release adds that all on-campus students need