BOISE, Idaho — The College of Western Idaho announced today, March 15, 2020 Spring Break has been moved up to Monday, March 16, 2020 due to concerns over the Coronavirus. The News release reads as follows:

College of Western Idaho (CWI) announces effective 6 a.m. MDT, Monday, March 16, 2020 - all CWI STUDENTS will be on Spring Break through Saturday, April 4, 2020. This includes the following areas of education:

Academic Transfer and Career & Technical Education

Dual Credit on-campus

Workforce Development

Basic Skills Education

We are extending Spring Break immediately to include:

Week of March 16-21

Regularly Scheduled Spring Break week of March 23-28

Week of March 30-April 4

Travel: Students are asked to exercise prudence and caution in traveling. If you decide to travel during Spring Break - please consult all Center for Disease Control (CDC) information on travel and restricted areas. Additionally, we want to remind everyone to practice social distancing and reasonable isolation measures as part of our collective responsibility to curtail exposure and spread of COVID19.

CWI Staff and faculty, full and part-time, and adjunct are to proceed with regular schedules in accordance to our effort to utilize this time in moving as much of our course offerings to online and digital formats as necessary. Staff are encouraged to discuss their schedules and option to work remotely with their immediate supervisors.

As information becomes available, we will continue to keep cwi.edu updated.

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