Rutgers Plans For More In-Person Classes, Dorms In Spring 2021 – New Brunswick, NJ Patch

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Rutgers University is planning for increased in-person classes and more on-campus housing for the spring 2021 semester, Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway announced on Sept. 22.

“We aim to safely reinvigorate and repopulate our campuses with increased opportunities for in-person instruction and on-campus housing,” said Holloway in this note to students. “Each chancellor is developing tailored campus plans that will combine remote instruction with in-person instruction for the spring semester. Each chancellor will carefully expand on-campus housing opportunities.”

He said students will be getting notified in the next coming weeks of what spring 2021 at Rutgers will look like.

Holloway also called Rutgers and the entire state of New Jersey “a national model for acting responsibly in the face of the pandemic.”

Rutgers has been mostly online only this fall, with nearly all dorms closed saved for those open to a few international students. However, there about 8,000 to 10,000 upperclassmen living off campus, something that has led to some unmasked, 100-person house parties.

Also at Rutgers, U.S. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a virtual speech to RU students this past Saturday. Warren earned her law degree from Rutgers Newark and went on to be a law professor at Harvard.

Warren gave the online address to members of Douglass Residential College, which is a women’s-only residential college at Rutgers. She spoke at their fall convocation to welcome the class of 2024; convocation was held this past Saturday.

Here is a video of her remarks Saturday; Warren begins speaking at the 17-minute mark: