All Spring Semester Face-to-Face 类 To Be Remote Until Feb. 15

发送日期:2021年1月13日

亲爱的校园社区:

As many of you know, we are facing a dramatic increase in the rate of COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara County as well as the state of California. 一些估计表明 the infection rate is nearly 15 percent of the population, with a “surge” of COVID-19 cases still to come from the winter break and holidays. 

考虑到这些因素， all planned on-campus face-to-face classes will move to a remote environment until February 15. Online classes are not affected and will resume as scheduled, with the first day of instruction 从1月27日开始. Until February 15, faculty are asked not to work from campus unless they are engaged 在批准的RSCA活动中.

As a reminder, Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) work that can be d一个 remotely should be d一个 in this manner. “关键和/或时间敏感”RSCA projects that have been approved for access by the Vice President for 研究和 创新, appropriate college dean and Environmental Health and 安全 are permitted to continue operation as approved without any modifications. 与教学不同，我们的 approved RSCA activities are being conducted in highly controlled environments with 低得多的密度. 

We hope that conditions change quickly so that we don’t have to extend the moratorium on face-to-face classes further into the semester. 适用于在校学生 housing or planning to move to campus, more information will be communicated soon. 

Please know this is a decision we do not make lightly. 的当前上下文 COVID-19 pandemic suggests that we take this approach to safely minimize the density 占校园人口的一半. 

真诚地,

文森特·德尔·卡西诺
教务长 and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs