BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Western Kentucky Univeristy students will not have a spring break this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
What You Need To Know
- WKU has canceled its spring break this year due to COVID-19
- Instead, the spring semester will end one week early
- Students are disappointed in the move, but understand the reasoning
Hilltoppers will instead be granted the gift of the semester ending one week early.
“We are ending the semester a week early because that break is not in there, so we will still get the same amount of instructional days," said Bob Skipper, WKU director of media relations. "The main thing is that we keep everybody safe. Our numbers have come way down and we want to continue that."
Students like freshman Joey Gomez offered disheartened reaactions to the news.
"I mean I understood honestly just because I understood that they didn’t really want people to go to the beach and stuff but it was kind of annoying," Gomez said.
Senior Jordan Matthis was pretty dissapointed as well, saying, "It was a just a little bit sad that like in my last year im not going to get that normal last year of a senior."
Skipper said that next year, there will be a spring break in the academic calendar and hopes that things can return to relative normalcy by 2022.