After consultation with the UC Berkeley public health committee, input from students, staff and faculty, and much deliberation, we have decided to begin the semester with a two-stage process, with most courses being offered fully remote for the first two weeks (Jan. 18-28) and then moving to fully in-person instruction in the third week of the semester on Jan. 31.
Some courses such as lab sections, studio courses, fieldwork, clinical courses, and graduate seminars may be taught in-person Jan 18-28. For these in-person courses, instructors may require in-person attendance but must offer appropriate make-up arrangements for students who are unable to attend because they have symptoms or are in isolation/quarantine.
Instructors may teach some courses in hybrid mode (where some students are in-person and others are participating remotely via Zoom) or allow their students to attend their lectures in-person during the initial two-week period. Hybrid is not a desirable modality for many courses; instructors are not required to teach any course in a hybrid mode.
All plans are contingent upon public health conditions at the time of their implementation and are subject to change.
Source: https://coronavirus.berkeley.edu/instruction/.
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Note: In truth, it's hard to say who was the true last UC cow. Was it UCLA, Berkeley, or Riverside?
https://news.yahoo.com/four-uc-campuses-extend-remote-061404078.html.
The article at the link above also mentions Merced, but Merced moved earlier.
UC Santa Barbara is last, as always. Still no announcement!
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