Dear Campus Community,
Happy New Year and thank you for your continued diligence in keeping our campus community safe and our university thriving.
Since my message to campus a week ago, we have continued to closely monitor COVID-19 infection rates in the region and across the state, as well as our own testing positivity rates. In light of the recent wave of infections, and following the information shared in a convening by LA County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) for institutions of higher education last Friday, we will move to temporary remote instruction — with limited exceptions — for the first three weeks of the spring semester, which begins Jan. 22. We will resume in-person instruction on Feb. 12.
Even though we are temporarily moving to online instruction, the campus remains open. All offices and services are now and will remain accessible and staffed to support our campus community.
We ardently held out hope that we would be able to kick-off the semester in a primarily in-person modality. We still anticipate that 70 percent of our classes will be in-person for the spring semester. Truly, so much of the Cal Poly Pomona experience depends on the opportunity to engage directly with one another. That said, our ongoing commitment to health and safety necessitates the temporary delay in our in-person teaching and learning. Based on guidance from public health experts, this temporary delay allows us to significantly decrease campus density during what is expected to be the crest of the surge caused by the Omicron variant. Barring any further direction by LACDPH, we will proceed with the approved in-person classes starting Feb.12.
Sincerely,
Soraya M. Coley, Ph.D.
President
