Students at Slippery Rock University will continue to take 80% of their instruction online in the spring semester.

William Behre, SRU president, announced on Thursday that the mode of instruction currently in place during the fall semester would continue in the spring.

“While I’m grateful to everyone for being mindful of our current situation, now is not the time to let our guard down,” Behre said in a letter sent to students, faculty and staff. “This is the time that we should double down on our efforts to keep our campus and community as COVID-free as possible.”

As in the current semester, the spring semester will be conducted with an 80/20 split of online to in-person instruction, Behre said.

“We understand this continued approach is not necessarily what many people wish would happen, myself included,” he said, “but it is one that has proven to work as evidenced by our low case count.”

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