How long before colleges start backtracking on their reopening plans?

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Anonymous wrote:Kenyon has gone all online. Interestingly Miami of Ohio is full on going for it...welcoming everyone back and just asking people to wear masks

Your information on Kenyon is wrong. It's changed, but freshmen and sophomores will be in campus in the fall and then the juniors/seniors in the spring. You will remote learn the alternating semesters. Plus, they are offering a tuition discount for the year.

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I wouldn't say that the schools are backtracking - just updating their plans based on changing conditions. It's a shame the south can't get their act together and ruined it for the rest of us.

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CMU’s final policy is different than what was said in June. I expect they will be the first of many.

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SCAD just rescinded their in person plans and made theirs online. Also took 30% of the kids scholarships to boot. Also no discount for online classes. I would imagine they're about to see quite a high drop out rate.

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https://www.umass.edu/coronavirus/sites/default/files/2020-06/Fall-2020-Reopening-Plan_1.pdf

Good read

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I keep hearing on ones going online now.

Everyday.

So hard to plan under these circumstances!

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A thread:

https://twitter.com/arthomason/status/1278694065228439552

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Now Emory:

https://emorywheel.com/emory-reverses-course-on-fall-plan-significantly-reduces-campus-capacity/

As coronavirus cases continue to break record highs in the United States, University President Claire Sterk and President-elect Greg Fenves announced via a campus-wide email on Friday that only certain students will live on campus and nearly all classes will move online.

This decision follows reversed plans from other prominent universities like Georgetown University (D.C.) and University of Southern California. Interim Provost Jan Love stated the University began considering the change on July 2, as the Emory Healthcare system has experienced a 150% increase in cases now as compared to April.

When the University released its original plan to hold in-person classes, cases and hospitalizations were trending downward, she said.

“We can’t really control what the people in this region do or what the advice is among governmental officials in this region, so we’re trying to control what we can internal to Emory to keep people safe and healthy while delivering our mission,” Love told the Wheel.

Students invited back will include first-year, international and new transfer students, select seniors finishing Honors work, scholarship recipients whose programs stipulate on-campus housing, and students who were approved to remain on campus in the spring. Only one student will be permitted per room.

Around 50% of College students are expected to return, Love said. The University expects to lose around $80 million, with no expected employee reductions.

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Dickinson just went online, citing the testing backlog as a major factor

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kenyon has gone all online. Interestingly Miami of Ohio is full on going for it...welcoming everyone back and just asking people to wear masks

Keyons website, updated yesterday, says 1/2 on campus in fall, half in spring.

Oberlin release the most thorough plan humanly possible today. Trimesters, with sophomores and juniors doing fall or spring, plus summer. All singles. No sports. No parties (hosts will be asked to leave the College) A small number of remote classes, the rest hybrid or 100% in person. My kid is trying to absorb it in small doses. If they can’t make it work, it isn’t for lack of having planned everything. But they got tests and a lab under contract early.

https://www.oberlin.edu/obiesafe/housing

I am going to love to see my kid follow the disinfecting guidelines for the sink before and after each use

Then, there this “if you are hosting an i time to partner in your room, please follow all consent guidelines for COVID 19 amd follow self-isolation guidelines”. That’s a lot of trouble— even if you get sex out of it.

It sounds thorough, and possible. But honestly, not that fun. My kid says— maybe, but it’s more Fun than never leaving home.

New poster. Been following Oberlin as it's around the size of DC's LAC. Amazing Oberliin was able to create all single rooms -- how? DC's LAC did its best to increase numbers of singles but still has doubles. DC got a double because by the time DC's number in the housing draw lottery came up, all the singles were snapped up.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't say that the schools are backtracking - just updating their plans based on changing conditions. It's a shame the south can't get their act together and ruined it for the rest of us.[/quote]

Sadly, as a Southerner living in the mid-Atlantic with a kid whose college is in NY state - I agree.

If all states had looked at NY City and understood that its lessons DID apply to them too, wherever they were located, we could all be in better shape at this point. But no, plenty of pointless, avoidable deaths and hospital-clogging cases right now in places that could have learned from the earliest spikes elsewhere.

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My kid goes to a college small enough to offer housing all 4 years. Her friends to to big state schools where almost everyone is in an apartment off campus after freshman year.

I never thought we would be jealous of them, but right now, all of her friends are headed back to college, whether classes are online or not, and she has a huge possibility of being stuck at home.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kenyon has gone all online. Interestingly Miami of Ohio is full on going for it...welcoming everyone back and just asking people to wear masks

Keyons website, updated yesterday, says 1/2 on campus in fall, half in spring.

Oberlin release the most thorough plan humanly possible today. Trimesters, with sophomores and juniors doing fall or spring, plus summer. All singles. No sports. No parties (hosts will be asked to leave the College) A small number of remote classes, the rest hybrid or 100% in person. My kid is trying to absorb it in small doses. If they can’t make it work, it isn’t for lack of having planned everything. But they got tests and a lab under contract early.

https://www.oberlin.edu/obiesafe/housing

I am going to love to see my kid follow the disinfecting guidelines for the sink before and after each use

Then, there this “if you are hosting an i time to partner in your room, please follow all consent guidelines for COVID 19 amd follow self-isolation guidelines”. That’s a lot of trouble— even if you get sex out of it.

It sounds thorough, and possible. But honestly, not that fun. My kid says— maybe, but it’s more Fun than never leaving home.

New poster. Been following Oberlin as it's around the size of DC's LAC. Amazing Oberliin was able to create all single rooms -- how? DC's LAC did its best to increase numbers of singles but still has doubles. DC got a double because by the time DC's number in the housing draw lottery came up, all the singles were snapped up.

I’m not sure. Freshman and seniors are on campus during spring and fall, plus one other class. They are letting a certain number of seniors live off campus. Some freshmen are taking a gap year and some people are learning remotely. International freshmen can’t get on campus. They took over co-op housing, and a lot of it had singles.

We’ll see....

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Lehigh has rolled back its tuition increase.

Because of the economic impact of the pandemic on families across the country, Lehigh will hold tuition at the 2019-2020 rate and reverse the increase that we announced in the Spring. Tuition will be $54,790 rather than $56,980.

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Anonymous wrote:SCAD just rescinded their in person plans and made theirs online. Also took 30% of the kids scholarships to boot. Also no discount for online classes. I would imagine they're about to see quite a high drop out rate.

Were they rescinding the portion that would have helped reduce housing/food costs? I’m assuming no housing/food costs since the kids will be home?