How some schools are planning to handle the Fall Semester

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This coming semester in schools will be a challenge, even an uncertain challenge -

 

Here is how my alma mater, Harvard, is planning to handle the upcoming semester -

Fall 2020: 100 Percent Online, 40 Percent Residential, 0 Percent Certain

This week — 118 anxious days after Harvard ordered its students leave campus mid-semester — the College made its long-awaited announcement detailing how the 2020-2021 academic year will unfold.

One hundred percent online classes. Zero percent tuition reduction. Forty percent density in residence, with housing only guaranteed for freshmen. For them, plus the upperclassmen who manage to successfully petition for on-campus housing, alien and isolated living conditions await, marked by the prospect of three solitary bagged meals per day and two mandatory COVID tests per week. The only social spaces left open on campus? Laundry rooms.

 

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/7/13/editorial-fall-2020-decision/

 

Edited July 27, 2020 by Suze1

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George Washington University rolls back reopening plan, opts for virtual semester

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/george-washington-university-rolls-back-reopening-plan-opts-for-virtual-semester/2020/07/27/083c4f04-d042-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html

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Georgetown University reverses plans, will start fall semester online

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/georgetown-university-reverses-plans-will-start-fall-semester-online/2020/07/29/4db8f408-d1cb-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

Edited July 30, 2020 by Suze1