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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UPenn reversed course and went fully online. Students are very upset. Not sure why the last minute change. They encouraged kids not to come to the area at all. Which ivys are left - Cornell, Columbia and Dartmouth? [/quote]

College dorm environment is the perfect environment for the virus to spread.  The virus does not distinguish between ivy league or anywhere else.[/quote]

Or, can it be sort of a bubble once they are all on campus? If they are there and stay there until Thanksgiving they aren’t coming and going couldn’t they quarantine and limit the spread? I wouldn’t expect no cases, but the contact tracing would be narrowed.[/quote]

NP. My DC's SLAC is doing just that--students can't leave campus at all, except for a medical emergency, the whole 12-week semester. The campus is self-contained and about 99 percent of students are in campus housing so it's much easier to say, don't leave campus. There's no Greek system that drives parties/rush events, plus no off-campus party opportunities/culture, and though the campus is in a small city, there are no bars/hangouts across from campus, just a tiny handful of restaurants. Students are plenty social and active, just not in the "step off campus and party in apartments/go to bars" way. All classes are available online but most will have an on-campus, in-person component, though DC is still waiting to hear details on each class (hasn't moved in just yet).

All to say--a small college with almost all students living on campus might make a mostly in-person return work. But we'll see. I think there's a good plan but student masking is going to have to hold up or that could be the Achilles' heel. [/quote]

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