Following President Schlissel’s April 20th COVID-19 update, all non-essential expenditures, including travel, are to be suspended.

To travel for essential business reasons within the United States, faculty and staff should:

• Contact their school/college/unit to:
  • Verify their travel is essential and meets any unit-level financial policies 
  • Ensure that they are following unit-specific travel approval steps, if any. 

• Register travel in the U-M Travel Registry
• Ensure that the activity follows relevant local laws and regulations, including those related to human gatherings/in-person interactions.
• Plan to follow CDC and U-M guidelines for returning to campus from another U.S. state.  See CDC and U-M Campus Blueprint website for details.

The guidelines apply to U-M-Ann Arbor students participating in U-M off-campus activities that:

• Involve travel for off-campus, UM-related engaged learning activities that take place outside of the state in which the student is residing or it entails at least one overnight away from home. 
• Off-Campus engaged learning activities are activities that:
  • Have an in-person component (e.g. in-person internships, research, volunteer projects, Sponsored Student Organization activities, recreation sports activities, research, or other educational experiences). These guidelines do not apply to any on-campus activities or any activity offered exclusively in remote format.
  • Examples of off-campus, UM-related engaged learning include: internships , student teaching, and other practica; programs like Camp Davis, the Biological Station, Semester in Detroit, and Washington PSIP; required and elective trips that are part of a course; service and community engagement opportunities; research activities not already regulated by UMOR; performances and exhibitions; and other co-curricular activities. Clinical rotations in the health sciences are not considered engaged learning activities for purposes of this guidance and are exempted from the requirements herein.
• Off-campus engaged learning activities are considered UM-related if they are funded, sponsored, managed by the University and/or if they are for credit or required for degree completion. These guidelines do not apply to activities that are not UM-related. See Global Michigan for a complete definition of UM-related.

To travel for essential U-M off-Campus engaged learning activities within the United States, students should:

• Contact their school/college/unit to:
  • Verify their travel is essential and meets any unit-level financial policies. Following the U-M suspension of non-essential travel, students may not use U-M funding for non-essential travel. 
  • Ensure that they are following unit-specific travel approval steps, if any. 
• Register travel in the U-M Travel Registry. Note that Travel Registration does not imply travel approval.
• Plan to follow CDC and U-M guidelines for returning to campus from another U.S. state.  See CDC and U-M Campus Blueprint website for details.
• Adhere to all applicable laws, guidelines, regulations, orders, rules, and the like, including, but not limited to, those related to COVID-19, to ensure that their commute, travel, and activity adheres to all existing and any forthcoming laws and public health guidelines. Some resources students may consider consulting are: 
  • Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (or the health department of your travel destination) health guidelines and regulations: https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs 
  • CDC Travel in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/travel-in-the-us.html 
  • Executive Orders in the state of your activity. For example: State of Michigan Executive Orders https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90705—,00.html  and the MI Start Map https://www.mistartmap.info

Note 1: Clinical rotations in the health sciences are not considered engaged learning activities for purposes of this guidance.

Note 2: These guidelines do not apply to any on-campus activities or any activity offered exclusively in remote format, and do not apply to activities that are not UM-related.

Note 3: If the activity reoccurs multiple times, students should register only once, indicating the date of the first possible occurrence and the date of the last overnight travel.

Note 4: Sponsored Student Organizations are prohibited from travel outside of Michigan and overnight travel. Visit the Center for Campus Involvement site for details.