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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be interesting to collect data on how many university related cases there have been during this pandemic.  In other words can we count how many university employees or their family members got sick as well as students or their families. Just curious.  I don’t think there will be HUGE outbreaks if kids go back in the fall. [/quote]
A lot of campuses, including mine, shut down when there was a first case on campus in early March. We were also told we would not be informed of further cases, as case reporting was up to the state's Department of Health. I do know that some colleges have been reporting cases in the few students remaining on campus. Mine does not report.[/quote]

Mine shut down before any documented cases. After the shutdown we were notified of a couple that did not seem to pose a risk to the larger campus community because it was after we had all been out for a few weeks.

I'm on some listservs and Facebook groups with others in academia so I get to hear what various schools are considering. The plans being discussed for fall are... interesting. At best they are planning to have small groups of students come to class on alternating days, thus getting way less time with the professor (and each other) than usual. Social distancing would need to be maintained at all times, so no group work or having a professor come over to a student for one on one help. Honestly I am not sure how any of that is much better than just doing the class online. Do students really want to come to class just to have 30 min or less per week of being in a room with a professor who can't come near them? It's all of the risk (I'm thinking of the research that shows the risks of being in the same indoor space for a prolonged period) and none of the reward. If the professor is just showing slides or writing stuff on a whiteboard and taking questions, that would actually seem inferior to using some of the technology tools that are now available for online platforms (e.g. breakout groups). I feel like colleges just want to be able to say "we are having in person classes" without accepting the reality that all of the modifications are not going to lead to a great student experience. [/quote]

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