The More the Merrier - Part 3

Thursday, August 19, 2021

From the Merced Sun-Star: UC Merced officials say they are delaying in-person classes for five days in order to help give students more time to find lodging due to a significant local housing shortage.

The announcement came Tuesday evening with in-person classes slated to begin Aug. 30. Classes already scheduled for online will begin Aug. 25, the fall semester’s official start date.

“This delay in physical course attendance will allow time to situate our students into late housing assignments,” an email from UC Merced to its campus community said Tuesday.

The upcoming school year was recently upset when university officials realized Merced’s long-standing housing difficulties would be exacerbated by construction delays for Merced Station, an off-campus housing development geared toward students.

The delay in available units for about 500 UC Merced students who planned to live at Merced Station joined the ranks of around 500 other students who are still looking for housing for a variety of reasons.

Source: https://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/education/article253532749.html.