Published on January 24, 2021 at 11:25 am
Daniel Jaffe, interim executive vice president and provost, released a statement recently declaring that UT wants to “minimize the number of people returning to the campus community at any one time” to reduce the spread of COVID-19. In the announcement, students were asked to reconsider returning to campus.
However, despite students being urged to spend their semester at home and Austin Public Health increasing the COVID-19 community risk level to Stage 5, UT is still allowing admitted students to schedule in-person campus walking tours.
In-person campus tours are not worth compromising the health of the student body especially when there are other virtual routes to consider.