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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys. Stop.

My university, just like all the ones mentioned here, is pushing out announcements about how we are "planning to reopen in the fall!"

Then our leadership sends emails to the deans/chairs about how we need to plan all classes to be fully online and hybrid online/in-person for the foreseeable future.

Then departments meet to plan this.

We are absolutely not going to be back in person full-time in the fall. No way. Everyone knows this, despite what public emails say.

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I'm a faculty member getting similar emails.  I think we know things won't be normal and there will definitely be hybrid courses to reduce the need for classroom space to allow for social distancing.  But what I hear in meetings is that they expect to have some residential population and some face-to-face class sessions but everyone should prepare to adapt if the situation changes.  What parents really want to know is a) will they be sending their kids off to school, and b) what will things be like when they are there?  And I don't think schools have a secret answer to that yet.   [/quote]

Same here. My university hasn't actually made an official announcement either way, but they are hoping to somehow have certain classes meet in person (e.g. certain science labs, performing arts) and get lab-based research back and up and running. In the absence of clear messaging from the university, individual departments are taking matters into their own hands and converting some or all of their courses to online. (Kind of similar what we're seeing with regard to states and the lack of federal leadership.) I am noticing that the courses that have been switched to online have much higher enrollment that the ones that are still listed as in person. I wonder if this means students are nervous, or just skeptical that the in-person courses won't change to online anyway and just want to know what they are signing up for. I'm not sure the "open it up" parents posting here are indicative of the larger parent and student population. [/quote]

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