Select Colleges Share Their Plans for Fall 2020

These colleges plan to welcome students back for the Fall 2020 semester. https://insights.collegeconfidential.com/will-college-open-this-fall

It would be nice if one of the CC admins can maintain a list of decisions taken by colleges about fall semester? It’s a fluid and flexible situation and knowing what other families and colleges are doing, may help members of CC community with their student’s decision process to go in-person or take online option.

Here is one that’s started, maybe they can be merged?

http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/2185759-fall-2020-openings-college-announcements-continuously-updated-p1.html

This is a better resource, with links, updated each day.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Here-s-a-List-of-Colleges-/248626

Kind of crazy that the Department of Education doesn’t step in and offer a guideline for this stuff…

It’ll be interesting to see which schools go completely online and which schools go for more of a hybrid approach.

Very few of Universities can afford to have their dorms empty, cafeteria closed, and sports facilities unused. That’s not even considering a drop in enrollment from fewer overseas students and fewer students willing to pay top dollar for an online education without the “college experience.”

Universities are businesses. They have employees that work all over campus outside of the classroom. They have bonds to pay for dorms they built, etc.

I predict that almost all universities will re-open because they must re-open.

Uncertainty in the Fall: What a Bloomsburg semester may look like
https://bunow.com/uncertainty-in-the-fall-what-a-bloomsburg-semester-may-look-like/

IUP’s Announces Plan - It’s a glimpse of what is coming.

https://www.iup.edu/news-events/coronavirus-information/

Ohio State returns to campus.

https://news.osu.edu/ohio-state-announces-plans-for-an-autumn-semester-return-to-campuses/

Hundreds Of Penn State Faculty, Staff Sign Open Letter Criticizing University’s Fall Semester Planning
https://onwardstate.com/2020/06/16/hundreds-of-penn-state-faculty-staff-sign-open-letter-criticizing-university-for-ignoring-concerns/