Drive in the gate as usual, and park in the Pike parking lot. Find your way there if you enter on the eastern side of the campus. You are REQUIRED to wear a mask and bring your ILC badge when you enter campus. The outer gates will open with your ILC badge if no one is on duty.

The campus gates are open 8:30 AM to 4 PM on workdays. Outside of those hours, you must use your swipe badge. 

Boutique
The Boutique is not open this summer but may be open this fall. Please watch for notification about this. When it does open, wear a mask and practice six-foot physical distancing.  

Chaplain’s Office
The Chaplain’s Office will keep posted hours (both on their door and phone message. You can find the phone number here). When you visit, wear a mask and practice six-foot physical distancing. Until further notice, primary contact with the Chaplain should be conducted remotely.

Childcare Center

Due to increasing COVID-19 cases in Dallas County, our Childcare Center is closed until further notice, probably not to open until 2021.

Computer Lab
The Computer Lab is closed for the summer.  It will be open this fall. When using the Computer Lab, practice six-foot physical distancing and wear a mask. Use the hand sanitizer provided as you enter and leave the Computer Lab. Please use a sanitizing wipe to clean your workstation (keyboard and mouse) before and after each use. Since the Mahler 6 lab capacity will be reduced for physical distancing, we will also have additional student computers available in Mahler 4 that may be used when a class is not meeting in that room.

Cowan apartments
Cowan is closed to visitors until further notice. When Cowan reopens, visitors must practice posted hygiene protocols including wearing a mask and practice six-foot physical distancing. 

DIU buildings
Faculty, staff and students will be issued swipe badge keys to open doors as needed. Non-DIU personnel may only enter as DIU accompanied guests, must wear a mask and practice six-foot physical distancing. If you are visiting campus and need access to DIU buildings, go to the Mahler Welcome Center to speak to the receptionist or phone the campus mainline at 972-708-7400. 

Dining Hall
The Dining Hall will provide lunch M-F.  It will be served from 12:00-12:45 pm. 

Guests are expected to wear a mask until seated and eat with six-foot physical distancing. 

Four Points
Four Points is open this summer and will open in August to DIU personnel and accompanied guests.  In Four Points practice six-foot physical distancing, use hand sanitizer and wear a mask. Please use the provided touchless hand sanitizer at entrances when you enter and when you exit. 

Guest House
The Guest House is currently open only to residents. Guests of residents should expect to be met outside.  When the Guest House is opened to non-residents, guests will be expected to wear a mask and practice six-foot physical distancing.  The housing office is accepting reservations for the Fall term. Contact them at housing_dallas@sil.org

Health Clinic
The Health Clinic is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, mornings only.  Call 972-708-7408 for an appointment. 

Library
The Library is closed this summer except by appointment.  You can contact the Library reference librarians by email at Library@diu.edu or urgent requests may be answered by phoning 972-708-7416 between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm, Monday-Thursday; please do not leave messages. 

The Library will be open this fall 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Monday-Friday; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday; closed Sundays. Those entering the Library will be required to wear a mask and practice six-foot physical distancing. 

 Pool
The pool will be open until September. You do not need to wear a mask at poolside but should practice six-foot social distancing.  

Soccer field
The soccer field is being resurfaced this summer but will be available for use this fall; however, six-foot social distancing is required for sports and no contact sports are permitted.  Please bring your own hand sanitizer if you will be sharing sports equipment (frisbees, etc.). 

Student Life Center
The Student Life Center is not open this summer but will reopen this fall with safety restrictions. 

Homemade cloth masks are acceptable. All DIU faculty, staff and students are responsible to provide their own masks.

Wear a mask when indoors and sharing space with others, wash your hands frequently, practice six-foot physical distancing, especially when indoors, and self-quarantine if you become symptomatic.

Do not go to the Health Clinic. Phone the Health Clinic and report that you are not well at 972-708-7408. They will give instructions for getting help. If closed, contact them at this email address: emergencycontact@diu.edu

The following measures will apply to all classroom learning: 

• Six-foot physical distancing between all students and the instructor will be provided for and required. Therefore, the maximum number of people in every classroom is capped.
• Students and instructors will be required to wear masks in the classrooms, and everywhere in buildings. Instructors have the option in class (but not in hallways) of replacing their masks with face shields. For overflow classes, instructors may opt to wear a face shield walking between the two rooms he is overseeing.
• Please use the provided touchless hand sanitizer at entrances when you enter and when you exit your classroom.

Yes, when you visit, wear a mask and practice six-foot physical distancing.  In smaller spaces, maintain distancing by standing in the doorway.  Office workers should not share desktop equipment (staplers, keyboards, etc.). Vulnerable Individuals should not come into DIU buildings. If alone, office workers do not need to wear a mask in their workspace. 

The risk is low but real. DIU is taking extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of the entire DIU community. That safety depends on the participation of the community to maintain a safe environment.  All DIU community members will be asked to sign a Community Guidelines agreement that includes a waiver of responsibility to the school.

To protect both students, faculty, and staff, most communication will be done remotely.

• Students are encouraged to use Microsoft Teams to communicate with any faculty or staff member in place of in-person meetings. Instant video calls, audio calls, and chats are easy to do in Teams between anyone with an @diu.edu email address who uses Teams. You can use Microsoft Teams in a web browser or download it here.
• You can get contact information to reach any DIU faculty or staff member by going here: https://www.diu.edu/about-us/directory/
• You can get contact information to reach any department at DIU by going here: https://www.diu.edu/about-us/department-contact
• Every department and each DIU employee has individual preferences about how to reach them. You should default on reaching out by email but if you phone, their voice message will give specific instructions on how best to reach them, when are their office hours, etc.

Fall 2020 courses at DIU will be offered in both face-to-face and virtual modalities. Face-to-face enrollment will be limited to maximize classroom physical distancing. Registration for face-to-face courses will be on a first come / first served basis.

Info on fall term courses can be found here: https://www.diu.edu/academics/course-schedule/.  Synchronous versions of every course offered will be available for non-OL (Online) and non-IN (Intensive) courses. Many courses will be taught in-person, but when the enrollment cap for each course is reached, Campus Café will close registration for the on-campus version of the course and later-registering students will have to enroll in the synchronous version of the course, attending only via Zoom. 

Electronic copies of forms are now preferred over paper.  Student forms can be found on the DIU website.  Electronic forms are preferred over paper forms.  Forms can be circulated for signatures via email.   https://www.diu.edu/academics/academic-forms/ 

Transform will be conducted using Zoom through the summer.  In the fall, Transform will resume in person. Those attending will be required to wear a mask and practice six-foot physical distancing. Vulnerable Individuals should be especially cautious about attending any large gathering. 

You can contact DIU’s Computing Services department anytime at helpdesk@diu.edu. Please use your @diu.edu email account to submit a helpdesk request. If you do not have access to your email account, you can contact online@diu.edu.     

We strongly encourage students to purchase a device that is capable of running Zoom for their SL courses. If you are on campus and you either do not have a device or are having technical problems with your laptop or tablet, DIU’s IT department has a limited number of Chromebooks and laptops that can be loaned for student and faculty/staff use as needed. Devices are loaned out on a first-come, first-served basis. If you do not live near the campus and do not have access to a device, please contact DIU’s IT department at online@diu.edu.

Several services are available from the DIU Lirbrary.

Consultation with librarians: 

• You can contact the Library reference librarians by email at Library@diu.eduor phone 972-708-7416 between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm, Monday-Friday.  
• Librarians are available to assist instructors in identifying undiscovered digitized resources in DIU-subscribed databases, such as the eBook Collection or other full text databases of journal articles. They may also explain how to use other scholarly sources, such as Researchgate.net.

Course readings: 

• Physical Course Readings will be processed for all courses that Academic Affairs designates to be taught on campus and in person.
• Library Staff will continue to advise and assist DE coordinator(s) and instructors in identifying, preparing, and uploading copyright-compliant Course Readings into DIUonline.  
• Additional procedures and forms are under development during Summer Term.  DIU will have an Annual Copyright License that will offer one database to check to see if print materials may be digitized and how much the publishers allow to be uploaded into a Course Management System like DIUonline.

General Circulation of DIU-owned Materials 

• Delivery of library-owned, physical books is limited to those living in the U.S. and Canada.  
• Instructors, in collaboration with librarians, may need to assist students living elsewhere to find local library resources or identify alternative digital resources.
• Journals may be borrowed by those living in the DFW area. Otherwise, under Fair Use guidelines, the Library will provide single article copies to individuals upon request.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) 

• Interlibrary Loan (ILL) requests for journal articles are the most likely to be supplied by other libraries.
• Interlibrary Loan services anticipates several limitations: (1) other libraries may not be loaning books and (2) pickup and return of physical editions of monographs is limited to the DFW area. ILL books can’t be shipped to students living elsewhere.
• ILL Staff can request collected works, scan, and email individual chapters to DIU researchers upon request.