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The University of Arizona will increase in-person courses but will cancel spring break.

Last week, the university started to “allow in-person instruction for classes of 30 or fewer that were designated as in-person courses at the start of the fall semester,” according to an Oct. 19 release.

“Beginning Monday, Oct. 26, classes of 50 or fewer that were designated at the time of registration as in-person courses or flex in-person courses, with a mix of online and in-person instruction, will have the option to begin meeting face to face,” University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins said on the university’s reentry progress.

The traditional spring break next semester will be canceled. The five-day break will be made into “reading days” off for students and will be spread out all over the semester.

"The CDC is unambiguous about the fact that travel is one of the core ways that we spread the virus around the country, and we need to do our part as a community, as Wildcats, to reduce travel," Provost Liesl Folks said in the release. "And, so, by taking spring break and instead taking those days and using them as reading days through the semester, it is a way for us to reduce the incentives to travel for our faculty, for our staff  and our students – for our whole Wildcat community – and in doing so, make our community that much safer."