UVA going to online classes March 19. Will reassess after April 5.

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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.

Are you an epidemiologist? How do you they aren’t following the advice on epidemiology? These actions appear to me to be consistent with the ideal advice an epidemiologist would give. Don’t have people going to class, eating and living in close quarters.

Maybe the question you should be asking is why aren’t other companies or schools doing the same.

These are major universities with medical schools and schools of public health. You don’t have any faith that they know what they’re doing?

I have a graduate degree in Public Health. Yes, I have taken several Epidemiology courses, not as many as a Phd, but a lot more than most physicians.

So, on the one hand, we have you claiming you have a degree in public health some completed courses in epidemiology.

On the other hand, we have the Harvard and Yale Schools of Public Health which, you know, teach epidemiology.

Yes, and if you can express your opinion, I can express mine, with even more legitimacy because of my education. I believe they are over-reacting.

All these colleges carefully picked students from everywhere to round out their classes and be diverse. That means a spread outwards to everywhere followed by a return from every where. I can see their logic.

Anonymous wrote:uva is supposed to send out an update on status today. students are currently on spring break

Announced a few minutes ago. Going online after spring break until at least April 5. https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/2020/03/11/university-of-virginia-moving-classes-online-amid-coronavirus-concerns/

Notre Dame is currently on spring break and that break will extend one more week. Effective March 23, in person classes will be halted and move in virtual learning until April 13 or possibly later depending on circumstances.

I think schools that draw a significant portion of the student body from all over the country/world should be more diligent. Many students who would have returned to campus next week would be coming from highly affected areas of the country.

https://coronavirus.nd.edu/news/father-jenkins-in-person-classes-suspended-moved-online/

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth still up in air. I think it depends if one is on a term or semester. If semester, one is only talking about a couple of weeks after spring break before the semester ends. If on a term like Dartmouth and UChicago, we are talking about 8 weeks of classes.

Carleton and Northwestern are up in the air too. In Carleton's case, the term is 10 weeks and begins March 30 (spring break starts 3/17).

uva is supposed to send out an update on status today. students are currently on spring break

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth still up in air. I think it depends if one is on a term or semester. If semester, one is only talking about a couple of weeks after spring break before the semester ends. If on a term like Dartmouth and UChicago, we are talking about 8 weeks of classes.

Students on semester schedules With spring break next week have 10 weeks after they were to return. It is not a few weeks

Lehigh is on spring break right now. They just announced that they will start two weeks of online instruction next Monday and then will reevaluate. Students are being asked to leave campus except for students in exceptional situations like international students from countries that are unsafe to travel to right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Folks this is a list thread, not a debating the decisions thread!

The thread with discussion was locked so people are turning here. I agree that a list-only thread would be very useful but that ship sailed when the other thread was locked (not sure why).

Would like to hear from parents what their kids' colleges are saying re: possibility of return to campus eventually this spring. I note that a PP said JHU was mentioning that it might resume campus classes depending on how things unfold.

I'm the parent of West Virgnia student.

Spring break is next week. We were notified last night that following spring break there will be an additional week without class, and following that (March 30) they will resume classes online. Students were told to bring important stuff from their dorm rooms (computers, medication, clothing, etc.) but they did NOT indicate that students should completely pack up/move out of their dorm rooms. In fact, they included a form to fill out if you wanted to remain in campus housing during spring break and after. So I don't know if they expect this to last the rest of the semester or not.

FWIW, there have been no cases of Coronavirus in West Virginia (yet?) but WVU has a lot of out of state students so I'm sure they were worried about students being exposed in their home state or while on vacation, and then returning to campus.

Dartmouth still up in air. I think it depends if one is on a term or semester. If semester, one is only talking about a couple of weeks after spring break before the semester ends. If on a term like Dartmouth and UChicago, we are talking about 8 weeks of classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Biggest joke of the college closures - Grinnell. Have you been to Grinnell? Literally nothing nearby. Those kids and professors would have been much safer if they had just banned Spring Break travel, kept the kids on campus to do some fun activities and finished the semester. All cases in Iowa are cruise passengers between 60 and 83 who had been to Egypt. All are self-quarantined. This is bizarre. Disruptive to the kids and very disruptive to the town.

The problem is eventually the virus will be everywhere, even Grinnell. And what if a food service worker gets it? Or a professor? Or a kid in a dormitory? Then what does the college do? It's essentially like a cruise ship - a closed environment conducive to spread of the virus. And if you send everyone home, then you may be sending the virus home with them. A college is taking a huge risk by staying open.

Williams, in a similarly isolated location, hasn't closed yet. I'm curious how that will work out for them.

Williams is now starting spring break a week early and going to remote learning April 6.

Anonymous wrote:Folks this is a list thread, not a debating the decisions thread!

The thread with discussion was locked so people are turning here. I agree that a list-only thread would be very useful but that ship sailed when the other thread was locked (not sure why).

Would like to hear from parents what their kids' colleges are saying re: possibility of return to campus eventually this spring. I note that a PP said JHU was mentioning that it might resume campus classes depending on how things unfold.

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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.

Are you an epidemiologist? How do you they aren’t following the advice on epidemiology? These actions appear to me to be consistent with the ideal advice an epidemiologist would give. Don’t have people going to class, eating and living in close quarters.

Maybe the question you should be asking is why aren’t other companies or schools doing the same.

These are major universities with medical schools and schools of public health. You don’t have any faith that they know what they’re doing?

I have a graduate degree in Public Health. Yes, I have taken several Epidemiology courses, not as many as a Phd, but a lot more than most physicians.

So, on the one hand, we have you claiming you have a degree in public health some completed courses in epidemiology.

On the other hand, we have the Harvard and Yale Schools of Public Health which, you know, teach epidemiology.

Anonymous wrote:Biggest joke of the college closures - Grinnell. Have you been to Grinnell? Literally nothing nearby. Those kids and professors would have been much safer if they had just banned Spring Break travel, kept the kids on campus to do some fun activities and finished the semester. All cases in Iowa are cruise passengers between 60 and 83 who had been to Egypt. All are self-quarantined. This is bizarre. Disruptive to the kids and very disruptive to the town.

I feel the same way about St. Lawrence University. Canton, NY is in the middle of nowhere. But I suppose there are cases in NY state - just no where near Canton.