Cornell shuts down campus and cancels graduation in response to COVID-19 case surge

Published December 14, 2021 12:00am ET



Cornell University announced Tuesday that all remaining final exams would be administered online and the university’s fall graduation ceremony had been canceled due to high COVID-19 transmission and the omicron variant.

The university made the announcement that “rapid spread of COVID-19 among our student population” had prompted the decision to close campus classrooms before final exams had finished. The university also closed the campus libraries and gyms and canceled the school’s December graduation ceremony.

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