Other Universities Beginning to Slide Beyond January 18 - Part 2

Yesterday we posted about other universities outside the UC system that were slipping beyond UCLA's current date of January 18 for a return to in-person instruction.*

UC-Merced, which is on a semester system that starts January 18, now indicates that the first week of classes will be online.** No word yet from UC-Berkeley which also starts its semester on January 18.

Yours truly spoke with a high UCLA official yesterday who said determination of what to do beyond January 18 is still under study. Yours truly emphasized that instructors need adequate advance warning of changes in plans. Switching back and forth from online to in-person instruction is not like toggling a light switch; it is instead disruptive. The fact is that there is still a surge going on with hospital rates also going up in the LA area. It's hard to imagine there will be more conclusive data available a few days from now with which to make a decision.

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/01/other-universities-beginning-to-slide.html.

**https://doyourpart.ucmerced.edu/spring-2022-plans.

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