UCLA among colleges planning to start January with remote instruction as omicron surges
, where spring classes begin later in the month, school officials said most learning and work in the first three weeks of January will be done remotely.’s president, Michael V. Drake, wrote to the UC system chancellors to warn that the fast-moving omicron variant, combined with holiday gatherings and student travel, would create public health challenges. Drake asked each of them to design a plan for their January return.
“Although it is too soon to say definitively, it now seems possible that the spread of the Omicron variant may signal that the virus is attenuating, meaning that it is becoming more transmissible and less deadly,” Gary May, the UC-Davis Meanwhile, faculty and students at some other schools are asking whether more caution is needed at their colleges when classes resume after the holidays.
Some students dreading a return to remote learning and the isolation of 2020 have pushed back with alternative petitions.
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