Looking ahead to fall when a dozen people are coming to California State University, Stanislaus, from countries infected by SARS, officials are reviewing policies.

They also are monitoring health reports and examining who would be responsible for things such as food supplies should people have to be quarantined.

"We're trying to solve these questions," said Linda Bunney-Sarhad, the university's director of the Office of Global Affairs.

Officials at Stanislaus State University met Wednesday to rethink their policy regarding student travel in light of growing concern about the SARS virus. They decided they could wait to make changes since no students are coming to the Turlock campus this summer from countries infected by SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.

"The main thing that we want the public to know is that we will do everything in our power to ensure the safety of the public," Bunney-Sarhad said.

Ten students and one faculty member are coming from China this fall, as well as another faculty member from Taiwan, she said.

"We have other students who may have gone home for the summer," she said. "They would also have to be monitored."

Stanislaus State's meeting came on the heels of an announcement Tuesday that the University of California at Berkeley will bar new students from China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong this summer.

The Berkeley action follows recent decisions by the University of Southern California and other colleges to suspend or cancel overseas studies programs in China for the spring and summer terms.

Cal's action is expected to affect about 500 students.

The SARS scare has led to a couple of changes at Stanislaus State, including: The university received federal money for a Fulbright China Study Project -- giving 12 educators an opportunity to study there. The trip had been planned for this summer, but the SARS outbreak forced a postponement. The mission now is scheduled in 2004.

Mayling Chu, assistant professor of social work, will teach in China this summer with a University Studies Abroad Consortium. The program was moved from an area where SARS cases have been identified to a more remote area where the virus has not been reported, Bunney-Sarhad said.

Modesto Junior College has not made any changes, spokeswoman Linda Hoile said.

At Delta College in Stockton, spokeswoman Connie Cochran said the SARS epidemic is not an issue. There are not students from China or other infected countries there now or coming in the near future, she said. During the spring term at MJC, two students from China, two from Hong Kong and one from Canada were enrolled. None of them planned on traveling home this summer, Hoile said.

Added Barbara St. Urbain, international student counselor at MJC, "One of our students from Hong Kong had planned to go home for the summer and now his parents don't want him to come" because of concerns over the virus.

Officials plan to monitor the situation over the summer. Though travelers go through airport checks, Bunney- Sarhad said health workers on campus might monitor incoming students for symptoms upon their arrival in the fall.