While We Wait, Here's the Special Problem for UCLA

As we have noted, UCLA is supposed to make a decision about Omicron and how classes will start in winter quarter this week. Some universities have already decided to go to online classes for the first few weeks of their sessions in January, e.g., Harvard. Others are also deciding this week, e.g., USC. But there is a difference between those universities and UCLA.

Yours truly checked on the starting dates for actual classes - not the technical starting dates of the sessions - of various universities.

UCLA: January 3 [Decision this week]

USC: January 10 [Decision this week]

Harvard: January 14 [Online start]

Yale: January 18 [No plan announced]*

UC-Berkeley: January 18 [Reviewing situation, nothing more definite]

As you can see, UCLA starts earlier than most. Hence, there is less time for instructors to modify courses - if that becomes necessary - at UCLA than at most. At UCLA, it's Happy New Year - start your class. The others start a week or more later.  

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*See https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/12/18/harvard-to-begin-spring-remotely-yale-sees-largest-ever-single-day-covid-spike/.

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