{"id":81182,"date":"2022-01-05T21:20:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T02:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/coronavirus-update\/?p=81182"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:11:41","slug":"important-change-in-spring-semester-planning-moving-online-for-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/coronavirus-update\/important-change-in-spring-semester-planning-moving-online-for-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in 2022 spring semester planning: Moving online for January"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[1046],"class_list":["post-81182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-messages","tag-jan-2022"],"acf":{"external":"","hide_featured_image":false,"related":"hide_related","style":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"update","css_class":"","title":"","content":"Update: January 10, 2022<\/strong>\n\n* Note: Since this message was distributed, the \u201cShelter in Place\u201d guidance has changed.<\/strong> Students should now understand the guidance as being the following: Residential undergraduate students approved to return to campus due to extenuating circumstances will be required to limit their activity to essential activities only. This means leaving their room for studying, paid employment, exercise, musical practice (Eastman students), or to retrieve food or other essential items. There will be no organized in-person activities during this interim time and students should limit close contacts on and off campus.\n\nUpdate: January 6, 2022<\/strong>\n\nA follow-up message to the University community<\/a>\u00a0offers more details about changes to the start of the spring 2022 semester and campus operations.","background_color":"#f4f4f4","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"","css_class":"","title":"
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Original Message: January 5, 2022<\/h5>","content":"Dear University of Rochester Students, Faculty, and Staff:\n\nWe want to alert you to an immediate\u2014but temporary\u2014change in operations for the spring semester. We\u2019re sending this message tonight to let you know this decision as soon as possible, and will provide more details for students, faculty, and staff tomorrow, including information on research activities, athletics, remote work, and orientation programs.\n\nThe University of Rochester is fortunate to have a world-class medical center, and we have relied on the expert guidance of our epidemiologists and public health experts, as well as the guidance of our county health officials, as we have made decisions throughout the pandemic. Our primary goal has been to keep our community as safe as possible, while at the same time fulfilling our research, education, and healthcare missions.\n\nAs we mentioned in yesterday\u2019s message, the public health situation is rapidly evolving. With the prevalence of the omicron variant, the sudden rise in current infection rates in Monroe County has caused our experts to recommend today that we keep our campus de-densified for the time being. We want to stress that our campus is safe\u2014and we want to keep it that way!\n

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