The William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said it has no benchmarks for returning to in-person classes due to the rise of COVID-19 cases in the Las Vegas area brought on by the omicron variant.

Interim Dean Sara Gordon said at a Jan. 6 town hall, a recording of which was obtained by the Washington Examiner, that the institution had no “set metric” for returning to in-person classes.

The law school, as with a number of universities nationwide, had returned to spring semester classes exclusively online, citing the winter surge of coronavirus cases, but unlike most institutions, it has no set date to return to classes.

Gordon said online classes would be in place for at least two weeks and that the school is “very committed to doing everything we possibly can to maintain in-person instruction as much as possible for the remainder of the academic year.”

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“The very disappointing reality is that the spring schedule that we planned is just not compatible for the public health crisis that we are looking at right now,” Gordon said.

The interim dean added that several professors had chosen to move their classes online for the duration of the spring semester.

School officials also dodged questions from students about tuition rebates. One student told administrators that “this is not what I paid for.”

Officials also could not tell students whether certain campus buildings such as the library would be open.

The student who recorded the town hall spoke to the Washington Examiner on condition of anonymity, citing possible retaliation from the law school.

“Something that has become increasingly clear over the pandemic and was on full display at the town hall is that nearly the entire current administration has no regard for student input or opinions,” the student said.

The student added that the town hall proved to be “lip service” from administrators “to act like they care about student input. … Without the students coming to the law school, they would all be unemployed.”

“It’s a disgusting sense of elitism and entitlement,” the student said. “It’s quite obvious, too, that many of the members of the faculty/administration aren’t staying locked in their homes 24/7, either. Not even the medical school, dental school, or nursing school is remote at all. It’s really frustrating.”

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Representatives for the law school did not respond to a request for comment.

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