Return to campus

As we prepare for the start of the Spring semester, here is an important update regarding the university’s plans in response to the significant rise in cases of COVID-19 due to the omicron variant.

After writing a series of articles about the “return to campus” throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, I can say with certainty that the Fall 2021 semester truly represented a return to campus for students, staff and faculty at UHCL. 

Students returned to campus en-masse at UHCL this fall for the first time since Spring 2020. The Signal asked students how they felt about the return to campus, these are their answers.

“A lot of what we’re doing is emerging almost daily,” said Nathan Vessey, coordinator for Emergency Management. “The newly emerging delta variant is causing us to make a lot of changes and we’re adapting as fast as we can with guidance from…