Students walk at UC Irvine, which is among the University of California campuses that are extending remote learning during the omicron surge. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times)Amid a worsening Omicron surge, four University of California campuses announced Thursday that they are extending remote instruction to the end of January. UC campuses at Irvine, Davis, Santa Cruz and San Diego, whose winter quarters began Jan. 3, said that rising positivity rates for coronavirus infections had compelled them to exercise extra caution and push back the start of in-person instruction to Jan. 31. Davis had planned to return to campus on Monday, while Irvine, Santa Cruz and San Diego had announced a Jan. 18 start. “Restarting in-person instruction when large numbers of students may not be able to take advantage of it is not reasonable or fair to students or to the faculty who would need to accommodate students who could not attend in-person instruction through no fault of their own,” he said.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 07, 2022 06:55 UTC