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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Professor here. Believe it or not, colleges still need to maintain accreditation and accreditation rules do mandate that a class designated as on campus still meet a certain number of times. The college can't claim to have an on campus program and simply excuse everyone from attending.  If you enroll in an on campus section you will be expected to attend unless you have requested an accommodation like using zoom. This would indeed involve documentation  submitted to disability services for a condition like asthma or being immunocompromised [/quote]

Not OP, asking seriously and without snark: How does this even work, say, this past spring when colleges went all-online, and this coming fall for colleges that are going all (or primarily) online? "On campus sections" of many classes do not exist in some cases at this moment. Accreditation rules and procedures are going to have to change very rapidly or colleges will end up unaccredited in various programs--won't they? I would think that the accreditation bodies would be cutting all kinds of slack right now. Is that not the case generally?

Clearly, certain programs with intense hands-on requirements and laboratory requirements would have to get back into classrooms and labs ASAP in a distanced way. But if the course is entirely a lecture course, it seems simply punitive to tell students they must be physically in a lecture-only class (or even a lecture plus Q&A) or they cannot be in the class at all. [/quote]

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