Wave of California colleges extend remote instruction amid worsening omicron surge
LOS ANGELES — Amid a worsening omicron surge, a growing number of California colleges and universities are delaying the start to in-person classes, including the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Four more University of California campuses — UCLA, Berkeley, Riverside and Merced — announced Friday they would extend remote instruction to Jan. 31, following earlier announcements to do so by Davis, Irvine, Santa Cruz and San Diego. California State, Northridge and California State, Fullerton also announced remote starts this year alongside a handful of other campuses in the 23-campus California State University system.
California private universities, including USC, Stanford, Occidental and the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges, have also pushed back the start of in-person instruction.
The delayed in-person restart among colleges and universities contrasts with K-12 districts, such as Los Angeles Unified — the nation’s
