How long before colleges start backtracking on their reopening plans?

[Anonymous]

It seems like 98% of UMDs classes are already online.

I don't think they will actually shut down the dorms at this point.

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Miami University Update.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/5522323002

The president of Miami University Greg Crawford wrote students in an email that they have three options: a remote start with a phased reopening, fully remote learning or a gap year.

Classes still begin on Aug. 17, but those who wish to participate in the phased reopening will move in beginning Sept. 14.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like 98% of UMDs classes are already online.

I don't think they will actually shut down the dorms at this point.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

Aooarently "phased reopening" is code word for "We are going to be online this fall but our governor is Republican".

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Anonymous wrote:Aooarently "phased reopening" is code word for "We are going to be online this fall but our governor is Republican".

MCPS and Montgomery College will be completely online. Why can’t UMD reconsider?

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like Southern California is leading the retreat. Wonder how many more will give up, especially now that ICE has backed down on their threat.

They kind of have to retreat, right? State and county rules, right?

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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.

How did the south ruin it for California?

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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

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.

These good but not great slacs are perhaps fighting for their future existences because slacs just are that popular anymore in general.

[Anonymous]

My kids is asking me to decide. SUCH a hard decision.

Surely home is safer, and I fear what he will bring home.

But of course, school has advantages.

Then there is this:

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/penn-state-student-21-dies-from-coronavirus-complications-university-says.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids is asking me to decide. SUCH a hard decision.

Surely home is safer, and I fear what he will bring home.

But of course, school has advantages.

Then there is this:

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/penn-state-student-21-dies-from-coronavirus-complications-university-says.html

Consider why this is news (because it is rare)

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Anonymous wrote:The big rub is what happens in off-campus housing. The universities will NOT be testing or have any liability for the kids who are off campus.

From my experience in DC, we are seeing GW and Georgetown students who are not allowed back on campus desperately trying to rent whole houses so they can do “virtual learning” while shacked up with their friends. We are seeing big upfront offers from their wealthy parents (ie, 12 months of rent paid upfront). But these houses will become COVID hot spots, as kids use the houses to party with their friends. It puts a huge amount of liability on the landlord. Schools like GW & Georgetown can wash their hands of the problem and say “We told them to stay home.”

The off-campus housing scene is going to be the driver of the problems. Kids living on-campus will go off-campus to hang out with other classmen, bringing the virus back to campus.

I predict most school will be 100% online by October 10.

THIS, exactly. My kid goes to Michigan State and this is what's happening there. Gov Whitmer has the state pretty well in hand, and MSU is doing a great job, but so many kids off campus....it's not going to end welll.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids is asking me to decide. SUCH a hard decision.

Surely home is safer, and I fear what he will bring home.

But of course, school has advantages.

Then there is this:

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/penn-state-student-21-dies-from-coronavirus-complications-university-says.html

It was in a local paper and the bulk of students had not returned yet.

I know my child would probably not die from corona. It is still a hard decision after taking precautions all summer to drop him off in the heart of a small community that will UNDOUBTEDLY have outbreaks in the coming weeks. Just trying to weight the tradeoffs of that...and if you don't think it is a difficult decision, than you have not been paying attention.

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A New York Times survey of every public four-year college in the country, as well as every private institution that competes in Division I sports or is a member of an elite group of research universities, revealed at least 6,300 cases tied to about 270 colleges over the course of the pandemic. And the new academic year has not even begun at most schools.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/28/us/covid-19-colleges-universities.html?referringSource=articleShare