Ball State University President Geoff Mearns said masks are mandatory for anyone spending time inside of any campus building and that the university will conduct surveillance COVID testing on unvaccinated students and staff, as the fall semester gets under way in little more than a week.  Further, no room capacity limits or physical distancing will be required as it was, earlier in the pandemic.

Mearns detailed those policies and more on this week’s Ball State Update, aired on IPR’s Morning Edition: