Updated Jan 6. 2022 to prioritize campus sites as campus-specific plans continue to be updated.
Campuses continue to provide updates. Please visit the sites below for the latest information pertaining to your campus.
Please visit our campus coronavirus sites for further campus-specific updates as the situation with the omicron variant evolves.
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UC Berkeley https://coronavirus.berkeley.edu/
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UC Merced https://doyourpart.ucmerced.edu/COVID-19-Policies-and-Communications
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UC Riverside https://campusreturn.ucr.edu/news-and-announcements
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UC San Diego https://returntolearn.ucsd.edu/news-and-updates/updates-to-campus/index.html
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UC San Francisco https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/messages-ucsf-community
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UC Santa Barbara https://www.ucsb.edu/COVID-19-information/campus-updates
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UC Santa Cruz https://healthcenter.ucsc.edu/services/covid-19/covid-updates.html
Original Dec. 21 post (updated Dec. 22; UC Merced update added Jan. 6): Today (Dec. 21) UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., issued a letter to the 10 UC chancellors regarding the omicron variant and its impact on public health. Per the letter, which requests of each campus a plan that mitigates public health impacts, responds to the unique circumstances facing each campus and maintains teaching and research operations prior to January return, several campuses have issued statements regarding their winter quarter plans.
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UC Davis (12/21): https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/chancellor-provost-update-winter-quarter
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UC Irvine (12/21): https://chancellor.uci.edu/engagement/campus-communications/2021/211221-update-on-winter-instruction.php
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UCLA (12/21): https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-winter-quarter-2022-remote-instruction-vaccine-boosters
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UC Riverside (12/21): https://insideucr.ucr.edu/announcements/2021/12/21/update-beginning-winter-quarter
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UC San Diego (12/21): https://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/Notices/2021/2021-12-21-2.html
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UC Santa Barbara (12/21): https://chancellor.ucsb.edu/memos-to-campus/update-beginning-winter-quarter-instruction
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UC Santa Cruz (12/21): https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/12/winter-quarter-update.html
UC Berkeley and UC Merced are on a semester system.
UC Berkeley presently plans for all classes to be in-person, including those that begin before Jan. 18. See this release for more details: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/12/22/an-update-on-uc-berkeleys-plans-for-the-spring-semester/.
UC Merced presently plans a week of remote instruction: https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2022/uc-merced-prepares-spring-semester-girds-omicron