Colleges that reopened and are shutting down

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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UMich opened just fine. I honestly think the Covid fear is all but erased. I wouldn't take public transportation and I think elder care facilities need to be VERY cautious, but otherwise, I don't think this has been a real issue for many weeks.


Inaccurate. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor isn’t open yet, although students who live off campus may be back in town. Students are just beginning to move into dorms today. Classes start a week from today, and 70% of them are virtual.



You gotta love the bs-ers.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That tested like 1700 people the weekend before last, when kids moved back on campus.

And staff before that.

So they have tested a lot of people (and when I last heard, had only 3 positives at move-in).



To make it clear: this post relates to Juniata.

Here is a link to their dashboard.

https://www.juniata.edu/coronavirus/

The second row, and graph shows how many tests they have carried out overall (vs past 7 days).

Seems like they have strong plans in place. But like all schools...time will tell.


Yes, but there could be people who tested negative when they arrived but are actually positive and I don’t think they’ll capture those people with such a small number of post-arrival testing. I hope they make it work,but that does seem like a flaw to me.


Here is what they are doing (but I don't know the numbers): "Starting the week of August 24, students will be sequenced for additional testing on a go-forward basis as a part of our comprehensive testing and monitoring practice. "
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:We need to stop treating cov19 like airborne Ebola, everyone will get it and few of any will get sick or die especially when the population is young healthy adults


Tell it to the people who have permanent debiliatations from the virus.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:UMich opened just fine. I honestly think the Covid fear is all but erased. I wouldn't take public transportation and I think elder care facilities need to be VERY cautious, but otherwise, I don't think this has been a real issue for many weeks.


The dorms opened today, classes aren't for a week. I hope it works out, but to say it opened just fine is a misnomer.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:What you consider normal is not normal. Most schools have the majority of their classes as optional. As a student what are you going to pick? stay in my bed, click on my class or get out of bed and go?


Well since both my kids sent pictures of themselves walking to their 8:00 am classes this morning, I can give you an answer, but probably not the one you were hoping for.


Classes don't start at Ann Arbor for a week. Can we please keep things accurate?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UMich opened just fine. I honestly think the Covid fear is all but erased. I wouldn't take public transportation and I think elder care facilities need to be VERY cautious, but otherwise, I don't think this has been a real issue for many weeks.


Inaccurate. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor isn’t open yet, although students who live off campus may be back in town. Students are just beginning to move into dorms today. Classes start a week from today, and 70% of them are virtual.


Kids began moving into dorms over the weekend.
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Nope. Today is the first day.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am a little confused about the 7 people in the dorm room part of this story.

In my kid's school, you are not allowed to have guests/friends in your room.


At my kid's school, they had the same rule but parents were outraged and complained. Kids have been violating this right and left and have even had parents hanging out sleeping over last weekend.


WTF...helicopter parenting has gotten so bad that they are sleeping in their kids' dorm rooms?! Not only would I never consider this since it's time for those strings to be cut, but also my kids would never allow it! Bizarre!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What you consider normal is not normal. Most schools have the majority of their classes as optional. As a student what are you going to pick? stay in my bed, click on my class or get out of bed and go?


Well since both my kids sent pictures of themselves walking to their 8:00 am classes this morning, I can give you an answer, but probably not the one you were hoping for.


Classes don't start at Ann Arbor for a week. Can we please keep things accurate?


My kids aren’t in Ann Arbor, and I never said they were. Try to keep up.
Anonymous
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities delayed move-in and moved first two weeks almost exclusively on line. Apartment-style dorms are opening on time.

Most classes are already on line.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am a little confused about the 7 people in the dorm room part of this story.

In my kid's school, you are not allowed to have guests/friends in your room.


At my kid's school, they had the same rule but parents were outraged and complained. Kids have been violating this right and left and have even had parents hanging out sleeping over last weekend.


WTF...helicopter parenting has gotten so bad that they are sleeping in their kids' dorm rooms?! Not only would I never consider this since it's time for those strings to be cut, but also my kids would never allow it! Bizarre!


Be nice. Some parents had a drive that was too long to do without an overnight.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:https://www.newsbreak.com/alabama/auburn/news/2046575608174/the-on-campus-semester-is-in-danger-at-both-alabama-and-auburn

Alabama and Auburn on verge of sending students home


Alabama has put their Covid dashboard online and it currently shows that there have been 566 cumulative positives among students, staff and faculty in the UA system. The time frame for that number isn't clear.

At the main campus they had 310 positives during entry testing. The campus "isolation space" is already about 20% occupied.

https://uasystem.edu/covid-19-dashboard/
Anonymous
UMW delayed move-in and moved first three weeks almost exclusively online. Most classes are already online.

UVA doing similar delayed move-in.

This IMHO is playing it smart...waiting to see how it plays out at VaTech, JMU, VCU before moving students on campus.

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