Students are sick, and what’s more, they’re sick of missing class. As the rapid spread of omicron hikes case numbers to new heights at Belmont, more and more students find themselves in quarantine while they recover. During online semesters in the past, keeping up with coursework just meant logging onto regularly scheduled Zoom meetings. But this spring, an increasing number of faculty refuse to make online accommodations for those sick at home. Student frustrations boiled ov

After spending much of 2020 and 2021 trudging through online classes, many aren’t excited to return to remote learning. The university’s decision to start the spring semester remotely through Jan. 18 left students scrambling to change their flights and access their textbooks before the start of classes. Belmont’s campus-wide dorm closures also leaves residential students without a place to live as they arrive back in Nashville for the spring semester. The last-minute change t

Belmont’s campus and classes will once again go virtual for the first two weeks of the upcoming semester due to the rapid rise of the COVID-19 omicron variant. Classes will meet online through Jan. 18 — the Tuesday after Martin Luther King Jr. Day — and student residence halls will remain closed until Jan. 15, university Provost Thomas Bruns said in an email Tuesday. The change of plans comes barely a week before the spring semester is set to begin on Jan. 5. Meanwhile, new C