Southern Arkansas University continues to take precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among its students, faculty and staff. As the University looks to the spring semester, it is taking steps now to continue to keep the campus safe.\u00a0 Changes have been made to the spring semester calendar to reduce the potential of students traveling or gathering in large groups and spreading the virus.<\/p>\n
The University will have more single-day breaks during the semester as opposed to the traditional week-long spring break.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want students to travel and risk them contracting COVID-19 and returning to school,\u201d said Dr. Trey Berry, SAU president. \u201cWe are diligently working to maintain a safe and healthy environment for all of our students, staff and faculty. Our students have done an amazing job of following the protocols we have in place to help prevent the spread of the virus and our numbers reflect their diligence.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to do anything to hinder that and put our students at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Due to the reduced number of days students will have out during the course of the semester, the term will end earlier than normal with spring commencement scheduled for April 30.<\/p>\n
Late registration for the spring semester will be held January 11 and 12, 2021, with classes beginning on January 13.<\/p>\n
SAU\u2019s updated spring semester calendar is as follows:<\/p>\n
January 13 – First day of class<\/p>\n
January 18 \u2013 Martin Luther King, Jr Holiday – no class<\/p>\n
March 5 \u2013 Virtual class day<\/p>\n
April 2 \u2013 No class<\/p>\n
April 29 \u2013 End of semester<\/p>\n
April 30 \u2013 Spring Commencement<\/p>\n
For more information on registering for classes for the spring semester, visit https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/academics\/registration\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Southern Arkansas University continues to take precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among its students, faculty and staff. As the University looks to the spring semester, it is taking steps now to continue to keep the campus safe.\u00a0 Changes have been made to the spring semester calendar to reduce the potential of students traveling… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":8459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[271,276,7753],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-community-corner","9":"category-homepage","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}