UConn Announces Online-Only Start to Spring Semester—Then Takes Down Directive.

A grim start to 2022 in Storrs and Stamford. The University of Connecticut’s spring semester may begin with online-only class and “will closely resemble the residential quarantine the university followed in the fall of 2020,” Daily Ructions has learned.

UConn posted and then removed the detailed announcement Thursday night—after the deadline for students to cancel on-campus housing agreements. Students will be allowed to begin to move into campus housing on January 29th, two weeks after the original date.

Students will be required to have vaccine booster shots. Oddly, only “discussions are also occurring regarding requiring the same for eligible faculty and staff.” Following the science ought to lead the leaders of the state’s premier public university to recognize that faculty members are likely more vulnerable to the COVID virus and its variants than are students, many in their late teens.

Published December 30, 2021.