Coronavirus Community Updates

As Pomona and partner institutions call on our county to work with us to bring back in-person higher education, officials have now agreed to first steps toward a limited reopening of some campus facilities.

With students now back in class and a range of activities launching for the semester, I’m writing to share more details about our framework for moving forward as a community in the months ahead.

In our message last week, we noted the importance of and great interest in vaccinations for COVID-19. Today, at this critical point in the pandemic, we are providing additional information.

Amid the many difficulties of the ongoing pandemic, we see much hope with the arrival of vaccines and want to offer more details on how our community will move forward in the months ahead.

I need to let you know some information about the situation here in Los Angeles County, where COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to escalate into a crisis that is overwhelming the medical system.

We are writing to update you on new Pomona Safe public health protocols that the College is implementing to help keep our community safe as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

As we look ahead to better days, I also want to provide a detailed update on where things stand right now on our path to getting students back to campus.

With the holiday break almost here, we have decided to begin our usual paid school closure a few days earlier, in line with wider public health steps we all need to take at this important point in our response to the pandemic.

As a campus community, we want to do everything we can to help in this crisis for our region.

I’m writing to you at a time of immense national and global challenge as the pandemic accelerates into winter. It also is a time of renewed hope.