"AS THE NEW CORONAVIRUS spreads globally, colleges are reacting by shutting down campuses and shifting to online classes in an effort to slow the surge of the pandemic.
Institutional responses vary across the U.S. Some colleges and graduate schools are proceeding with classes as usual but curtailing travel and study abroad programs, others are extending spring break, many are shifting to online classes and some are emptying the dorms and sending students home.
The sudden shifts in living and learning mean that students have to adjust accordingly, often with little warning.
‘It’s really just chaos on campus right now,’ says Haeyun Lee, a junior at Harvard University in Massachusetts." …