MU not planning to delay classes due to omicron; Stephens College will start online
Rising COVID-19 cases have prompted dozens of universities across the country to switch to online courses.
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Rising COVID-19 cases have prompted dozens of universities across the country to switch to online courses.
The University of Missouri System is not planning to delay the start of the spring semester or move to online classes, despite a nationwide surge of COVID-19 cases fed by the spread of the omicron variant of the virus.
University of Missouri and Columbia College joined institutions nationwide this week in promoting COVID vaccinations upon students' return to campus.
The pandemic enabled Sam Fleury, Kerrie Bloss and James Melton to pursue good health.
Nadria Wright would have been 20 on Tuesday. The Columbia College student's life ended on Sept. 13, 2019, when she was a passenger in a car, killed by a gunshot intended for the driver. She was the seventh person killed by gun violence in Columbia in 2019. She was 18 and a freshman nursing student at Columbia College. She had been a member of the Blue Thunder Track Club and played saxophone in the Battle High School band. She traveled to China to study at Shanghai University with Columbia Public Schools and the Confucius Institute. Now, a group of organizations has formed to launch the Nad...