{"id":5564,"date":"2026-03-30T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:20:54","slug":"semester-to-continue-online-aus-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/semester-to-continue-online-aus-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Semester to continue online, AUS says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Maryam Alchami<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2014 The American University of Sharjah (AUS) announced on March 29 that it will continue remote operations until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an email from Chancellor Tod Laursen, faculty and staff should work from home, and students are to attend classes remotely as scheduled. Campus access is restricted, and those with access passes for labs or special facilities should reconfirm permission with their supervisors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laursen asked faculty and staff remaining on campus to complete an online survey to help the university plan essential services and support. He wrote that AUS is monitoring regional developments and local weather in coordination with authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laursen thanked faculty, staff and students for their \u201ccooperation and flexibility,\u201d stressing that \u201cAUS\u2019s highest priority is the safety and well\u2011being of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maryam Alchami UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2014 The American University of Sharjah (AUS) announced on March 29 that it will continue remote operations until further notice. According to an email from Chancellor Tod Laursen, faculty and staff should work from home, and students are to attend classes remotely as scheduled. Campus access is restricted, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,79],"tags":[33,82,25,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-5564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-news","9":"tag-aus","10":"tag-aus-campus","11":"tag-sharjah-uae","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}