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Harvard closing for rest of semester
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Anonymous
| Students will begin online classes after spring break (March 23). Students must be out of dorms by March 15. |
Anonymous
| Whoa. |
Anonymous
| Wow |
Anonymous
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Not the only one.
UCSD Amherst Princeton |
Anonymous
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https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-harvard-classes-online-spring-break/
It's true. I am not sure why but I'm very surprised by this. |
Anonymous
| Princeton is not having students move out. Just online classes. |
Anonymous
| This is good. Prevention of spreading the virus is the best thing we can do for ourselves. |
Anonymous
| I just can't help but wonder if they are itching to try out off site learning. It is a great excuse for an experiment. |
Anonymous
| Wow, I am surprised. And, I heard it here first. |
Anonymous
Princeton asking students not to return to campus from spring break. https://twitter.com/Princeton/status/1237007235865366530 Pretty much the same language as Harvard. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| THis will kill the college towns and the workers in college towns who survive off of the students. |
Anonymous
No way. Campuses that don't routinely deliver courses online the ways public universities do are not prepared for this technically, and faculty isn't trained. It takes different and specific preparation to deliver a class online, and shifting gears with 2-3 days to prepare is not ideal. A major university would want to pilot this first, and then train faculty. |
Anonymous
| It's a major bummer for the kids. You only get to do college once and those years were probably the best of my life. |
Anonymous
Does it lead to prevention, though? Won't the students now be off to other places, but still out and about? Maybe more so because no longer tied to going to classes and their college campuses. I'm just not sure? |