Officials at the State University of New York on Friday released a set of uniform guidelines meant to police students who hold gatherings on and off campus, fail to self-isolate or wear a mask. 

Potentially at risk for repeat violators: a permanent dismissal for the student from a school. The new guidelines take effect next Thursday.

The guidelines come amid concerns over rising coronavirus infections at SUNY campuses across the state. Already, SUNY Oneonta has ended in-person instruction after infections quickly spready among students. 

Students could be sanctioned for holding or attending parties on or off campus as well as failing to self-isolate or quarantine if they test positive for the virus. And the guidelines also push students to adhere to submitting to daily health screenings.

"This emergency directive, which implements a COVID-19 sanctioning policy, is intentionally narrowly tailored to the current public health emergency, and seeks to create uniformity of sanction to help SUNY balance the need to protect public health of students, faculty, staff, and community members, with students’ rights to remain within the educational environment," SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras wrote in a memo released on Friday. 

"This directive does not supersede the definitions of violations of COVID-19 requirements, where defined by a campus within their Code of Conduct or other policy, but assigns standardized sanctions for such violations, dependent upon gravity and intentionality." 

And "multiple findings of responsibility" for violating the guidelines could lead to increasing levels of sanctions, including permanent dismissal from school.