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On Thursday, Chancellor Plowman announced that UT has plans to offer fully in-person classes during the fall 2021 semester.
Some of the other plans UT has in place include allowing more fans at athletic events, the reopening of dining halls and campus housing returning to normal, among other things.
This news comes as a result of case counts dropping and vaccines becoming more available, according to Plowman.
President Biden also announced on Friday that he would be directing every state to let all American adults be eligible for the vaccine by May 1.
âWeâve heard time and again from students and members of our faculty how much more effective and meaningful learning can be when we are together in person. I look forward to safely providing that experience again this fall,â Plowman said.
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Last November, when administration announced that UT would not be providing hazard pay or a higher minimum wage for frontline campus workers, Brandon Risley, who works as a custodian in Hess Hall, was in disbelief.
âWeâre underpaid like no other,â Risley said. âThe hazard pay is one thing, but the pay in general for this company is ridiculous.â
Facilities workers spent months in the fall fighting for hazard pay of $2.50 an hour and a minimum wage of $15, which they see as the minimum livable wage.
Risley says that his brotherâs girlfriend makes more than him as a cashier at Walgreens and her mother, recently out of prison, makes more at her factory job than he does. Neither of them has to pay for parking at their workplaces either, as Risley and other facilities workers do.