UNL Zooms Back to Being In-Person: Changes are Coming in This Next School Year

University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has had an interesting school year. They had to attend classes online for most of last semester. They have rotated through an entirely online system to a hybrid of in-person and online. And now, they are going to be going in-person and at full capacity.

            UNL had been completely online for a time. According to an inside source, it was incredibly difficult for all who were involved, including students and teachers. This is something that is no longer a worry. The stress of having to sit in on Zoom for the next semester is no longer a problem. UNL has been restored to its former glory.

         All this is an overly dramatic way of saying that UNL will be going back to full capacity classes. This will be taking place in the fall of this year. So, the returning students and the freshmen will be able to start their school year free of a virtual format.

         Chancellor Ronnie Green stated in a letter to the staff, “Our commitment to an in-person campus experience continues, and we are working to be as close to pre-pandemic activities as we can safely be by Fall. While there are many things still unknown, there are several important areas guiding our Fall plans that we can share.” Along with this, there are a large number of points mentioned in the same letter.

         One of them is how their goal is to have as few Zoom meetings as possible. Along with this, testing and mask mandate requirements will be determined closer to the start date. Facilities on campus such as the library, state museum and Sheldon Museum of Art will be lifting their restrictions. University sponsored trips will now be occurring as long as the county approves it.

This is something that is good for UNL that can hopefully reach us soon. As Union College reaches the end of this semester and the end of the school year, we can hope that there are going to be changes that bring us from Zoom classes to absolute in-person classes. Hopefully this will bring some sense of normalcy.

TJ Pittinger is a junior

theology major from

Gilson, Ill.