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UC Santa Barbara Moving From In Person To Online Classes Due To Coronavirus Fears

UC Santa Barbara is moving its classes online for the last few days of the winter quarter and the first weeks of the spring quarter in response to coronavirus concerns. In a letter to the campus community, Chancellor Henry Yang says instructors are being told to use alternative arrangements to in-person classes and exams.

The letter says campus housing and dining facilities will remain open, but that undergraduate students traveling for spring break should be prepared to stay away through the month of April UCSB sports programs are also being impacted. The Chancellor’s letter says that games and matches will be fan-less events.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.