Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hysteria. So sad for the kids, especially the Seniors at all of these schools. Hoping that my two DS' campuses will remain open after Spring Break. (And we have no where else to discuss this because Jeff locked the other threads and sent them here, and then deleted my question about whether this was the appropriate thread to discuss.

Agree. These kids were safer on campus. This is a basic cold with very little symptoms to teens/young adults. Many are already walking around positive and don't even know. Now they will be out visiting friends, public libraries, malls, etc.... and around the older people they should be avoiding.

You are talking about missed final research jobs, presentations, graduations ceremonies, etc... All because 0.2% of the 30 year olds, 0.1% of 20 year olds, and 0% of 10 year olds can die from this? SO STUPID.

This. So unfortunate.

How old are professors? Staff? The university is more than the students. These people work there and then need to go home to their families as well.

You don't see very many other companies (or school districts, for that matter) closing so that their employees can "go home to their families." Colleges should be basing their decision to close on epidemiology. Our DS is at Rice, which cancelled classes this week, but they had an actual case in an employee and were watching a group of grad students who had been to Egypt. Now that the 14 day quarantine has passed for that group, they are feeling more confident, and have NOT blindly followed the crowd to shut down the school. Kudos to them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hysteria. So sad for the kids, especially the Seniors at all of these schools. Hoping that my two DS' campuses will remain open after Spring Break. (And we have no where else to discuss this because Jeff locked the other threads and sent them here, and then deleted my question about whether this was the appropriate thread to discuss.

Agree. These kids were safer on campus. This is a basic cold with very little symptoms to teens/young adults. Many are already walking around positive and don't even know. Now they will be out visiting friends, public libraries, malls, etc.... and around the older people they should be avoiding.

You are talking about missed final research jobs, presentations, graduations ceremonies, etc... All because 0.2% of the 30 year olds, 0.1% of 20 year olds, and 0% of 10 year olds can die from this? SO STUPID.

This. So unfortunate.

How old are professors? Staff? The university is more than the students. These people work there and then need to go home to their families as well.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hysteria. So sad for the kids, especially the Seniors at all of these schools. Hoping that my two DS' campuses will remain open after Spring Break. (And we have no where else to discuss this because Jeff locked the other threads and sent them here, and then deleted my question about whether this was the appropriate thread to discuss.

Agree. These kids were safer on campus. This is a basic cold with very little symptoms to teens/young adults. Many are already walking around positive and don't even know. Now they will be out visiting friends, public libraries, malls, etc.... and around the older people they should be avoiding.

You are talking about missed final research jobs, presentations, graduations ceremonies, etc... All because 0.2% of the 30 year olds, 0.1% of 20 year olds, and 0% of 10 year olds can die from this? SO STUPID.

This. So unfortunate.

WVU is switching to online classes after an extended spring break.

Purdue, Columbia, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-San Diego, University of Southern California, Seattle University and Amherst.

Indiana University has announced that students will do online classes after spring break which starts next week. They will be remote until at least April 6.

Anonymous wrote:Hysteria. So sad for the kids, especially the Seniors at all of these schools. Hoping that my two DS' campuses will remain open after Spring Break. (And we have no where else to discuss this because Jeff locked the other threads and sent them here, and then deleted my question about whether this was the appropriate thread to discuss.

Agree. These kids were safer on campus. This is a basic cold with very little symptoms to teens/young adults. Many are already walking around positive and don't even know. Now they will be out visiting friends, public libraries, malls, etc.... and around the older people they should be avoiding.

You are talking about missed final research jobs, presentations, graduations ceremonies, etc... All because 0.2% of the 30 year olds, 0.1% of 20 year olds, and 0% of 10 year olds can die from this? SO STUPID.

Hysteria. So sad for the kids, especially the Seniors at all of these schools. Hoping that my two DS' campuses will remain open after Spring Break. (And we have no where else to discuss this because Jeff locked the other threads and sent them here, and then deleted my question about whether this was the appropriate thread to discuss.

https://www.reddit.com/r/college/comments/fgb8xm/megathread_colleges_announcing_cancellations_due/

GW going online after spring break, beginning 3/20.

I think it’s all colleges in Maryland that are moving to online classes after spring break.

I just wanted to say that the colleges were smart about the 2-3 weeks online after spring break. They have effectively created a quarantine period after all of the spring break travel that was going to happen no matter what, both domestically and abroad.

Cornell undergrads will not return to campus at the end of spring break (April 6) and all instruction will be online thereafter.

https://www.cornell.edu/coronavirus/

Tufts going online https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1237529746402996224

Yale going online https://communications.yale.edu/covid-19-information/university-announcements-about-covid-19/covid-19-moving-courses-online-and