Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard

Texas Tech University is committed to facilitating a safe learning and working environment for students, faculty, and staff. The purpose of this communication is to advise our campus community about changing conditions that may affect your safety or any major changes to safety policies and practices.

Contract tracers will work to identify and inform all individuals who may have been in contact with members of the Texas Tech community that have tested positive for COVID-19 or are suspected to be positive. Contact tracing is a critical tool to help us to prevent and minimize the spread of this disease.

In accordance with university procedures, students, faculty, and staff are required to report possible COVID-19 exposures and or a positive COVID-19 test result. Students, faculty and staff should use this form to submit a positive test result or exposure that is received by an off-campus medical provider. A student, faculty or staff member that receives a positive test result from Student Health Services or the Texas Tech Physicians Family Medicine Faculty/Staff Clinic will be advised whether or not reporting is required.

If a student in University Housing tests positive for COVID-19, that student will be relocated for self-isolation. Contact tracers and University Housing will be in communication with the student regarding health and safety protocols as well as logistics for the mandatory self-isolation period. While in self-isolation, the university will provide meal delivery and wellness checks and will also ensure the student has internet access so that they may continue with their studies.

For additional information, medical guidance, or to arrange a COVID-19 test, please contact the following:

A complete guide to testing options both on and off campus as well as information on reporting can be found here. For all other inquiries, contact Meredith Imes, Interim Director of Emergency Management at covid19@ttu.edu.

About the Dashboard

Texas Tech began publicly reporting COVID-19 numbers on August 3, 2020, and all data contained in this dashboard is cumulative as of August 1, 2020, when Texas Tech moved to Phase II operations.

This dashboard contains data on students (on-campus and off-campus combined) and employees (faculty, staff and student employees combined) that take classes or work on our Lubbock campus (satellite campuses are not included in these numbers) and is updated Monday through Friday. The numbers reported each Monday afternoon will include all data reported over the previous weekend.

Students that are employed in some capacity by Texas Tech are considered student employees and their data is reflected in the employee column of this dashboard. Due to the fact they have an actual workplace on campus, they are classified as employees for contact tracing purposes and for supervisor notification.

Data for this dashboard is compiled from Student Health Services, the Texas Tech Physicians Family Medicine Faculty/Staff Clinic, and from the Texas Department of Emergency Management. This data is also shared with the City of Lubbock Health Department.