SIU students return to campus for the Spring semester SIU students return to campus for the Spring semester By Colin Baillie | January 20, 2021 at 5:18 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 5:23 PM CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) -Southern Illinois University welcomed students back onto campus Tuesday. Students returned after a long break, Fall classes on campus finished before Thanksgiving break. What’s happening this semester? Many of the same COVID-19 rules will be intact. Rae Goldsmith, Chief Communications Officer at SIU said the same protocols will be in place “We’ll still have all of the same safety, cleaning, mask protocols, that we had. We’ll still have a mix of classes, both face to face and online and a little bit of a combination of both,” said Goldsmith.