LOL.
My D, who’s an Environmental Science major and chose to do online from home, said she’d love that job.
This is my favorite comment thus far in the entire 758-page thread.
University of South Carolina blandly says in their press release that their status has changed from “new normal” to “low.” Low, apparently, is the status a college has when 13.4% of the students they test in the last two days end up testing positive, and five fraternities and a sorority are in quarantine.
They’re still planning to have in-person fraternity recruitment, or at least they were yesterday. What could go wrong?
This is a train wreck.
(article from yesterday, before more cases were announced today)
https://www.postandcourier.com/columbia/usc-develops-closing-plans-after-covid-19-cases-double-will-pull-the-plug-if-i/article_8c5d1882-e897-11ea-91b5-9f213e65ac3f.html
Northwestern has pulled back a bit on their fall re-opening plans - most freshmen and sophomores not invited on campus for fall quarter (hope to have them come in January); also closing Greek housing for the fall: https://www.northwestern.edu/coronavirus-covid-19-updates/developments/undergraduate-students-updated-plans-for-the-fall-quarter.html
Was just about to post about Northwestern. Students have been moving back for the last two weeks. Wonder how many are sophomores.
I think more than just an isolated LAC will do well. And there are indeed quite a few who have returned their entire student bodies. Those that committed resources to testing with Broad for example are the schools to watch. I will also be watching NEU and BU and Tufts in Boston to see how they fare but their robust campus lab administered testing places them in a good position.
My D is a senior at UIUC. I am really impressed with their innovation and implementation. They are testing everyone twice a week with their own saliva test. Hoping and praying for their success!
Love to see a big school being innovative, actually having a plan and trying to make it work! And since it’s my alma mater, I’m just a bit biased.
How is Cornell doing? It looks like they had the right idea that the problem is kids moving into off campus apartments, whether classes are in person or not, so it’s important to regulate the off campus kids.
Agree on the private schools with large endowments being better positioned to manage the COVID environment, they have more flexibility to make policy adjustments and have more staff per capita than the larger public institutions. Schools with a high endowment per student like Princeton and Williams can afford to the provide comprehensive testing, single rooms for all students, dining services on demand, etc. Also, having no fraternities and a controlled campus environment also helps.
S19 has to sign a lease last January. Pre-Covid.
@melvin123 Cornell doesn’t start until 9/2
Are they testing off campus/Greek kids too?
@melvin123 & @momofsenior1 – Cornell students have been moving in this week. I do not know the status of testing off-campus students, but it appears they have tested 1000-2000/day since Sunday.
Here is their dashboard:
https://covid.cornell.edu/testing/dashboard/?fbclid=IwAR0GdNaj2xCEshgY_SysBvCj_FVDU015x8enqXhxXp76Cb1PEP-muMNuUcM
And here is an interesting article about the testing lab built at the Vet School.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/08/robots-know-how-drive-covid-labs-massive-testing-effort
And finally, this lovely article about students petitioning to have a TikTok star sent home for flouting social distancing rules.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/26/cornell-jessica-zhang-coronavirus-tiktok/?fbclid=IwAR02pBUtc9zpjhLjw0zwNYlBONIpP6E_BO3DPyIsgVZMW9uY8SHdt1Qxjgg
Very interesting @CT1417, thanks for posting.
Wow. Sounds like there were other kids at that get together and only Zhang is being targeted. Then again, if I read the article correctly, she’s the one who posted it to her social media account, which shows a certain level of disrespect for the rules. I have mixed feelings about the kids telling on each other.
I understand that you meant colleges resembling Princeton because the actual Princeton, like much of the Ivy League (Penn, Columbia, and currently Brown), is closed: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-07/princeton-scraps-plan-to-bring-undergraduates-back-onto-campus
As of this posting, Cornell is the only Ivy League university fully committed to enrolling all of its undergraduates this Fall.
Bullying other students wouldn’t be permitted pre-covid. It shouldn’t be permitted now.
Here’s a message from Colgate University after an incident happened at the beginning of the week when students (mostly freshmen I think) violated the guidelines and honor code to keep the campus safe. There is a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all students/staff once they move to campus. Some of these students opted to ignore this by partying in one of the housing. They were sent home the next day. Kudos to the school for doing this.
Dear Colgate Community,
On Monday, the University learned of a party in a residence hall that was in violation of the Commitment to Community Health. Gatherings, particularly during this quarantine period of Gate-0, are strictly forbidden as they jeopardize the health and wellbeing of our entire campus. We are also investigating reports of additional violations.
I take no pleasure in announcing that as a result of these students’ actions, several students are being sent to their homes to study remotely. Decisions like these are some of the hardest to make as an educator; however, when the stakes are as high as they are this semester, careless mistakes by individuals can lead to considerable consequences for the entire community. These students will remain enrolled at Colgate, but they have lost their privilege of being on campus this semester.
Hundreds of Colgate staff and faculty have been working tirelessly for months to prepare for on-campus learning this fall semester. I am grateful that most community members are doing their part by adhering to the Commitment to Community Health. While the University’s plan for reopening is comprehensive, it is predicated on executing each element with precision. It is on behalf of the entire community, and in acknowledgement of the work already invested, that the University has taken this important, albeit difficult step, to enforce one critical part of our plan to be together: the Commitment to Community Health.
I ask each of you to refamiliarize yourself with the language in the Commitment to Community Health that clearly sets forth our expectations for this semester. The Commitment reads, in part:
“Because of the potentially severe public health effects of noncompliance, those who do not adhere to these expectations will face significant disciplinary consequences, including parental notification, loss of the privilege to live in residence (for students living in University-owned housing), forfeiture to come on to campus (for students living in privately-owned housing), suspension or even expulsion.”
The Commitment is a pledge that has been signed by every student learning on campus this semester, and it will continue to be vigorously enforced so long as the Coronavirus remains a threat. You should also familiarize yourself about what is permitted during the universal quarantine and within each Gate. If you are unclear about Colgate’s policies, please visit colgate.edu/colgate-together for additional information or contact me directly. If you have information about any individuals not following the University’s expectations this semester, please address this behavior directly, if you feel comfortable, or please submit a report so we may continue upholding the integrity of the Commitment to Community Health.
Seeing students on campus this week has been energizing and been the reward for our hard work over the last several months. This beginning of the academic year is my personal favorite and I also feel the excitement of being together. I urge you to channel the palpable energy of this moment with a long-view of the semester, by making decisions that will allow us to be together for the duration of the semester. I also remind you to be vigilant in your collective actions of caring for each other through the simple measures of wearing face coverings, maintaining physical distance, frequent hand washing, and importantly, adhering to the Commitment to Community Health.
We can do this.
With regards,
Paul J. McLoughlin II
Vice President and Dean of the College
I’m really impressed with UIUC’s response. I wish UMich would follow in their footsteps for testing. I’m surprised that a school like UMich with a huge research hospital presence isn’t more on top of this.
Seems more like they are hoping that most of their students won’t act like 18 year old college students . I hope they are right. My JR son tells me he is doing his part, I hope others are up to the challenge.
Go Blue.
I posted this before. Cornell is testing all undergraduate students 2-3 times a week, whether they live on campus or off campus. Graduate students once a week. Cornell did few studies this summer and determined it was safer for them to open the campus because so many students were going back to Ithaca whether the campus was open or not.