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[quote=Anonymous]Let's take an average top 15, small town/rural LAC.

2000 students, 200-250 are international, and will not be on campus.

So we're talking about 1750 students in housing for 2000. That opens space. They lease the 2 motels that are adjacent to campus for the duration of the year which provides more singles. The smallest dorm is for students who are under isolation due to exposure. A wing in another dorm is designated for students who are at risk due to their own immune system issues.

Rather than 4 classes a semester, students take 2 classes for the first half of the term and 2 for the second. Each class will thus meet 4x per week, and half the class will be in person M-T and the others will be W-Th. As a small LAC, most classes are seminars with about 20 students. They will offer more sections of their bigger intro classes so students can be socially distanced.

To include students in isolation and international students, all classes will be in person and online simultaneously. At this college, because it is a small LAC, 90% of classes have 25 or fewer students

They will add a third cafeteria and longer times for meals, to discourage crowds. Students could take food to go, and eat outside, in dorms etc. There will be limits on how many students can be in a cafeteria at any one time, same as some retail stores now.

The college will test all students upon arrival (this is being piloted at UCSD now, to see how long it will take and what the capacity at labs off campus are).

A new cadre of student jobs will exist - contact tracers. The creepy apps that track which students are showing up to classes may be used to instead track where students who test positive have been and who they were with.

My point is there is no universal solution or decision -- and each college is going to look at their own circumstances, the state where they are, nearby ICU capacity and testing.
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