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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There are several ways colleges are going to try to enforce social distancing.

Every student gets a single. [b]This would reduce by student housing by 50-70%. Most colleges have very few singles and often have doubles and even suites with 4-5 students. [/b]

You have a scheduled time to shower in am so students are spaced out. Students have to be off of cleaning and disinfecting. [b]Would only work if they showers twice a week, for a 3 minutes only and start at 3 am. Most college students are not ready for navy procedures plus the bathrooms have sinks and toilets. Hard to schedule when you have to pee.
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Dorms for quarantined students who test positive. M [b]Again, the schools do not have extra empty dorms sitting around. [/b]

Tests administered to all students upon arrival at the college  [b]Not nearly enough testing materials to do this plus the logistics of testing 5K-50K students is impractical.[/b]

Masks mandatory. [b]Sure masks will be mandatory but the cloth masks and bandanas are not very effective plus the practice of pulling your mask done defeats any type of mask.[/b]

No gatherings larger than 10. [b]There go in person classes. Are you expecting a surge in available classrooms and new buildings along with an army of adjuncts. In some schools lecture halls are filled with 200+ students. [/b]

Spacing in cafeterias and to go options. [b]To go is fine but where are they are going to sit and eat?[/b]

Classes are broken into groups so social distancing can be observed in classrooms — such as group A is in person on Mon while group B is in person on Weds. On the day you aren’t in person you participate remotely. [/quote] [b]Only pragmatic if you substantially cut down the number of students. Many in fact most classes only meet for twice a week and most classes are over 50 people with the exception of seminar style courses. Maybe each student goes to "class" once a month but what is the point of being there then. [/b] 
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None of this is remotely possible if you bring all the students back. Schools would need to only bring back 25%-30% of their student body, which is what Harvard medical is doing. The only students on campus in classes will be second year students which is 25%. Medical schools have a natural differential in that 3rd and 4th year students are on rounds in a hospital or in labs. A similar distinction does not exist across undergraduate and graduate programs or law schools. Schools will not be able to determine who gets to come back and who has to stay home. 
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Thank you for talking sense on this forum. People not affiliated with universities are not thinking of all these details. There is just not enough space to spread the students out. Most have already signed up for fall classes. What are we supposed to do, kick some of them out? Having 25% of them attend at a time would mean they each come for like 30 min once every other week. So pointless.[/quote]

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