What You Need to Know

• As of today, Lane County has been placed in the "extreme risk" category for COVID-19 under Gov. Kate Brown's new health and safety framework. In this risk category, the following impacts remain in place for the Eugene campus:
  • Student Recreation Center, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History remain closed. 
  • Non-residential dining remains grab and go. In-person residential dining is permitted following CDC and OHA guidelines.
  • Instruction is remote as already planned. 
    
    

• To provide an opportunity to refresh and recharge, university leadership is providing a COVID-19 personal day to eligible employees to be used in the month of December 2020. This is in addition to the special day of leave historically referred to as the governor’s special day of leave. Also, the university is extending time in which employees can use their emergency sick leave to June 20, 2021.
  
  

• The UO Monitoring and Assessment Program has opened up more than 2,000 testing slots for next week. All asymptomatic members of the UO community and residents of Lane County are invited to participate in the screenings. Visit the testing webpage to learn more and register.

Reminders

• All UO classes will be conducted remotely or online for the first week of winter term, from January 4 through January 9. We will return to a mix of instruction modes as indicated on the class schedule (in-person, remote, and online) at the start of the second week of winter term.
  

• The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outline some general precautions to minimize the spread of respiratory diseases. 

In the News