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[quote=Anonymous]Assuming that the virus is still around (it will be) and we are successful in flattening the curve, here's what I could see happening with colleges/incoming freshmen:

Orientation - Make it OPTIONAL! DD is a college freshman. We did not get much at all out of her orientation, other than setting her schedule for the fall semester. We live close-by and she had already been for multiple visit days. So we got very little new information from orientation. The info we did receive could have been delivered via email or video. She could have signed up for classes via zoom or a one-on-one appt rather than an entire day of orientation. She did get info about the on-campus organizations, but she got all that again during orientation events her first week on campus. She could have easily opted out of orientation, but other kids never visited campus before orientation. So make it optional.

Online classes - Let professors decide and/or keep the large lecture classes online. It might be necessary to do more online due to a shortage of faculty. I can imagine that faculty members who are planning to retire in a the next few years will go ahead and decide to retire early so that they aren't exposed. Professors with compromised immune systems might opt for online or leave the teaching field.

bars/restaurants - Keep them open but require them to close early (10 or 11)  to deter partiers.

Dorms - Increase cleaning, obviously. Deter elevator use when it is not necessary. Fill rooms that have private bathrooms before communal bathroom by reducing the rates. Dining halls could consider meal delivery. Colleges that require freshmen to live on campus could lift that requirement for the year.

These are strange times, but this country does not have the attention span for a prolonged effort to fight this thing. We will become desensitized eventually. So I think school will go on in the fall, but colleges should take a lot of precautions to prevent the spread on campus as much as possible[/quote]

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