COVID-19 Updates

The university is monitoring this situation very closely. Going forward, the following alternative education solutions will be in effect for both UCC and Campus Extension classes, unless otherwise notified.

Online: There are no changes to Extension’s normal offerings of online courses at this time. Classes will continue to run as normal.

In-Person and hybrid classes: All Extension in-person and hybrid classes are subject to the University's mask and vaccine mandates. 

Please contact your program department with questions, concerns or clarifications.

Students can review UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies’s Policies, Terms and Conditions here.  If you feel you have extenuating circumstances outside of our refund policy requirements please review the Tuition and Fees page here. Please reach out to unex-petitions@ucsd.edu with any additional questions.

Please visit Osher’s COVID-related FAQs at https://extension.ucsd.edu/olli/about-us/faqs.

The data show that community spread of infection is still a concern across the world. Please follow CDC prevention guidelines carefully, both to preserve your own health and the health of those around you.  As of November, 2021, all noncitizens who are nonimmigrants—including E.S.T.A., F-1, and J-1 students—traveling to the United States by air from any part of the world must show that they are fully vaccinated (with an approved vaccine), with limited exceptions. Over 74% of San Diego County residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and boosters are now available to all adults (over 18 years old). 

UC San Diego has a comprehensive plan, Return to Learn, for a safe return to studying on campus. The plan was developed in consultation with top public health experts in the United States, who are medical faculty at UC San Diego.  Extension International Programs will continually assess the changing situation with COVID-19 and offer classes that meet the strict health guidelines in place.  The University of California requires vaccines for all students, staff, and faculty, making UC campuses some of the safest places in California. 

UC San Diego has a comprehensive plan, Return to Learn, for a safe return to campus life. UC San Diego researchers have developed a substantial SARS-CoV-2 testing program for students, staff, and faculty, which has accelerated the resumption of in-person activities on campus. Campus clinicians, public health experts, molecular biologists, infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists, and bioinformaticians are using wastewater monitoring and statistical modeling to speed early detection and shorten the duration of outbreaks, which has resulted in fewer infected people in the campus population.  

With extremely few exceptions, ALL UC San Diego faculty, staff, and students are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 with an FDA or WHO-approved vaccine. This, combined with readily accessible testing, self-screening, and mask-wearing, has kept the COVID-19 infection rate on campus at a fraction of 1%. 

UC San Diego Health and Student Health Services have developed triage screening (by phone and at front desks) and implemented additional protocols to help identify possible cases of coronavirus to provide optimal care for those with symptoms and to protect other patients and staff.   

Fully vaccinated individuals do not need to self-quarantine upon arrival to the U.S.  

As of November 2021, you must be fully vaccinated with an approved COVID-19 vaccine to travel to the United States by plane if you are a non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. immigrant. Only limited exceptions apply. A person who has received only one dose of an accepted 2-dose series and has recovered from COVID-19 does not meet this definition, and therefore is NOT considered fully vaccinated. Before boarding a flight to the United States, you are required to show a negative COVID-19 test result taken no more than 1 day before travel. 

For more information see Requirement for Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination for Air Passengers 

If you are not fully vaccinated and allowed to travel to the United States by air through an exception, you are required to do the following: 

• Get tested with a viral test 3-5 days after arrival, unless you have documentation of having recovered from COVID-19 in the past 90 days. 
• Stay at home or in your hotel room and self-quarantine for a full 7 days, even if you test negative unless you have documentation of having recovered from COVID-19 in the past 90 days. 
• Isolate if your test result is positive or you develop COVID-19 symptoms. 
• If you intend to stay in the United States for 60 days or longer, you must become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 within 60 days of arriving in the United States or as soon as medically appropriate, unless you have a medical contraindication or are too young to be vaccinated. 
• Do not visit the UC San Diego campus until you have completed your 7-day quarantine. 
• If you will not be able to attend in-person classes because you need to quarantine, inform us at ipinfo@ucsd.edu.

  
Additional Housing and Medical Insurance
See our housing page for details on quarantine housing options. Please contact our student health and welfare advisor to arrange for additional medical insurance.
 
 

Almost all students who are enrolled in Extension International Programs (IP) have the UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies medical insurance policy for international students. For students who have purchased the UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies IP medical insurance (Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield), testing and treatment for COVID-19 is covered:  

• Coronavirus testing: When ordered by a doctor at a hospital, emergency room, urgent care, or other medical visit, where the purpose of the visit is to be screened or tested for COVID-19 for medical reasons (not travel), members do not have any patient responsibility for COVID-19 testing.  

• Coronavirus treatment: If a member is diagnosed with COVID-19, the plan will pay based on the plan benefits outlined in the policy, i.e. members will pay any out-of-pocket expenses that the plan requires, such as deductibles, copays, and  coinsurance, just like any other illness would be treated (at least until otherwise mandated). 

Active students must report any possible symptoms of COVID-19 to campus using the Student Symptom Screener and wait for instructions from the campus health and COVID Teams before being cleared to return to campus. Email Iphealth@ucsd.edu if you need help with this process. Email ipinfo@ucsd.edu or your academic adviser if you are unable to attend or participate in classes.  

Our Health and Welfare adviser provides students with information regarding area hospitals and medical facilities, which are covered in the UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies’s medical plan. If a person is infected with COVID-19,  hospitals have protocols and procedures according to the seriousness of the person’s symptoms, and of course that will include quarantining and monitoring to assure full recovery from the illness and to protect others from becoming infected.  

Please check the International Programs Dates and Prices page for updates on program offerings in 2022. Programs are currently being offered primarily in person, except for a few online programs. Depending on the public health context, it may become necessary to transition our classes back to exclusively remote learning, but this is not planned as of December 2021. 

English Language Programs  
Programs at the English Language Institute are being held in person on campus. In 2022, we will continue to offer Conversation and Conversation & Fluency live online for students who are unable to travel to the U.S. to study English.  
  
University and Professional Studies  
UC San Diego returned to primarily in-person courses as of Fall 2021. Most University and Professional Studies classes are currently held in person. In 2022, we are also offering an online version of our University and Professional Studies program, where students can choose classes from among the online class offerings of university academic departments and UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies. Studying in person in San Diego still offers the greatest variety of classes. 

Certificate Programs  
With the exception of the Paralegal Certificate, all of our Certificate Programs that are normally offered have adopted a hybrid model, with a combination of in-person and online courses.  
 
Campus directives may change at any time, so please check with us if you have questions or concerns. 

Please see the individual website for the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in your region for information regarding its operating status and the services it is currently offering. To find embassy or consulate websites, go to https://www.usembassy.gov/. The embassy links get you to the right embassy website, but you will have to do some clicking to find relevant COVID-19 information, as each embassy website is structured a bit differently.
 

The Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) is allowing issuance of the electronic I-20. Extension International Programs will continue to automatically issue an electronic I-20, unless the student specifically requests a paper copy. Issuing an electronic I-20 means the student receives the I-20 sooner and can make a visa appointment as soon as possible after being accepted to their program. SEVP has coordinated with both the U.S. Department of State and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regarding the policy to allow electronic I-20 issuance.  Both agencies support the issuance of electronic I-20s (for F-1 visas). 

J-1 students are required to have a physical, original DS-2019 document. 

There are multiple program options available to students who would like to continue their studies, including English language, University Professional Studies, and Certificate programs. Please contact ipinfo@ucsd.edu as soon as possible to discuss options. 

In the event that your travel must be delayed, there is no cost to defer enrollment as long as you notify us in writing before the program’s published start date. At the time of deferral, we will need to know the new start date and the program being requested. See our dates and prices for published start dates.

You will need a new Form I-20, which reflects your new program start date. At the same time you notify us that you want to delay your studies, you will also need to let us know the new start date you would like.

If you decide to cancel your studies, we will refund or defer all tuition and fees, except application and express mail fees, as long as you notify us in writing before the program’s published start date. See our brochure for published start dates.

If you decide to withdraw from your current studies, our policy remains in place. We will refund or defer all tuition and fees, except the express mail fee, as long as you notify us before the program’s published start date. If you decide to cancel your studies after the program start date, you will not receive a refund. See our dates and prices page for published start dates.

Due to government mandates, the UC San Diego OSHA team is currently working remotely.

For assistance with OSHA courses please send an email to oshatraining@ucsd.edu. 

For assistance with the 10/30 hour OSHA Outreach Training Program please email oti-outreach@ucsd.edu.

If for any reason a student is not able to attend a class, or the class has been canceled, the UCSD OTIEC/OS&H Department will issue a full refund or will offer a transfer to another course section. All requests must be received in writing (oshatraining@ucsd.edu). Please provide the student’s name, student ID number, section ID and course name in which the student was enrolled and the reason that the student cannot attend the class. Please specify if you prefer a refund or a transfer.

Outreach trainers registered for update courses or those trainers whose authorizations will expire during an OTI Education Center closure will be afforded a 90-day grace period after classes resume to enroll in a new update class. These trainers may continue to conduct 10- and 30-hour Outreach training classes until the end of the 90-day grace period. Those trainers who have not completed the standards course within the past seven years will not be required to take the standards course under this scenario.

Additionally, if a trainer has been restricted to travel during this time and is not able to reauthorize prior to his/her expiration he/she will also be afforded the same 90-day grace period.

Yes, you will still receive your cards. You may expect a slightly longer turnaround time, so please continue to issue an OSHA Training Program Report immediately after you have taught a class. The online reporting portal can be found here: https://storefront.ucsd.edu/osha/login.php. It is also highly recommended to issue a Certificate of Completion to your students.

Unfortunately, the Directorate of Training and Education (DTE), OSHA, will not grant any exception requests to conduct the OSHA 10/30 hour classes online. OSHA has authorized nine vendors to conduct Outreach Training classes online. For more information visit: https://www.osha.gov/training/outreach/training-providers.

Unfortunately, the OTIEC  courses are not authorized to be conducted in an online format; however, there are UC San Diego Safety classes available online: Introduction to Fire and Life Safety, Safety Leadership I and Safety Leadership II.

The immediate plan is to move the event to a future date to be announced in the coming weeks.

We are actively in the process of rescheduling select classes and we expect to have resolution and communication in the coming weeks. Please join our email list or frequently visit the website for the most up-to-date information. Students can also view the remainder of the 2020 classes on osha.ucsd.edu.

At this time we have not made any decisions to cancel classes beyond May 1, 2020. For the most up-to-date information, please check our website osha.ucsd.edu.

All in-person Library Next programs have been canceled through June 2020, including STEAM workshops and the Admit One Test Prep Academy. The Libraries may be closed, but you can still experience workshops online by visiting the Library NExT page of the Sally Ride Science website.

Admit One: During this trying time, UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies remains committed to helping you achieve your goals. In an effort to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, we have transitioned all of our Summer courses to an online or hybrid format. Hybrid classes are fully online with live virtual class meetings each week using our Zoom conferencing system.

We know these are uncertain times and we are continuously monitoring developments and following guidelines, mandates and recommendations from federal and state officials to ensure your ongoing safety. At this time, this summers’ Sally Ride Science Junior Academy will take place as scheduled. If in the coming months, workshops are canceled, we will notify participants immediately and full refunds will be provided. For questions please contact precollege@ucsd.edu.

During this trying time, UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies remains committed to helping you achieve your goals. In an effort to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, we have moved this summer’s Sally Ride Science Junior Academy workshops online. These online STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) workshops for students entering 4th-12th grade will be conducted through virtual class meetings using the Zoom conferencing system and the learning platform Canvas. For questions please contact precollege@ucsd.edu.

The online class will be conducted through virtual class meetings using the Zoom conferencing system and the learning platform Canvas. Please contact precollege@ucsd.edu with questions or concerns.

Mail is being delivered to our offices and staff is attending to hard-copy transcripts for applications and recommendations on a weekly basis. We are experiencing a slight delay in processing applications and recommendations while California’s Stay-At-Home order is in place.

Yes, although there may be a 1-2 week delay. Once your Request to Recommend form, transcript verifying completion of required coursework, and any required supplemental documents are received, we will initiate the recommendation process. You will be contacted via email if there are any missing documents. Once recommended, you will receive an email directly from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC).

You have the option to submit electronic transcripts if they are sent directly from your college or university. Scanned copies of transcripts are considered unofficial and not valid for admission purposes. Please have your college/university email transcripts directly to submittranscript-debs@ucsd.edu.

Please fill out a Transcript Request Form and submit it directly to Student Services. There is no charge when transcripts are sent internally to Education and Community Outreach (ECO).
Please use the address below when completing the form:
UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies
Education and Community Outreach
Attn: Credential Analyst
9500 Gilman Drive, #0170-N
La Jolla, CA 92093-0170

We can expedite processing in this situation, on a case-by-case basis. Please submit a short note with your Request to Recommend form explaining your situation. Please make sure to provide an email address so we may follow up with you directly.

Please continue to send your forms to
UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies, ECO
Attn: Credential Analyst
9500 Gilman Drive, #0170-N
La Jolla, CA 92093-0170

Please send an email to unexeduc@ucsd.edu should you have any additional concerns or questions.