Harvard, the greatest university in the world, will do all of its teaching online in the coming school year to protect its student body from coronavirus. Harvard will bring some students to live on campus, but it will cap on-campus residency at 40% of capacity, and those resident students will still attend class online, just like everyone else.
Harvard is choosing who gets to live on campus based on educational needs. This fall, Harvard will bring all first-time undergraduates to campus. “This will enable first-year students to benefit from a supported transition to college-level academic work and to begin to build their Harvard relationships with faculty and peers. Both online and dorm-based programs will be in place to meet these needs.” Harvard will also consider allowing on campus students who petition and make a compelling case that they lack the technology at home or have other challenging family circumstances that would prevent them from learning well remotely. Any students living on campus will have to agree to taking coronavirus tests every three days. Harvard is also setting aside housing for possible quarantine and isolation of up to 250 individuals.
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences says it would like to rotate the freshpeople out come spring and allow seniors to live on campus for their final semester; however, Harvard acknowledges that we can’t make any firm plans for six months out yet and won’t pick its residential scenario until December.
Meanwhile, Princeton is going halfsies: freshpeople and juniors come to campus in the fall, then sophomores and seniors come to campus in the spring. Most academic instruction at Princeton will remain online.
Any word on what South Dakota university’s will do in the next couple of months? With a governor who clearly doesn’t want to be a governor, we can only guess, but we know whatever this dolt decides, it won’t be good.
Jerry, I don’t know if our Regental schools have nailed down how many classes will be offered face-to-face. They have adjusted their Fall 2020 calendar to start classes three days earlier, on August 19, nix three holidays, and then finish the semester online after Thanksgiving, including final exams.
Face-to-face instruction poses significant risk of contagion. You assemble 20–30 people room, in close quarters, interacting vocally, and then coming and going through crowded doorways and busy hallways during tight transition times. If I were in college right now, I would opt for online classes, for my own safety and everyone else’s.
Thanks Cory, I agree, on line courses make more sense these days.
The US has withdrawn from WHO in the middle of a pandemic. Now this.
So, international students who were successful in gaining admission to the “greatest university in the world” and others will have to give up their dream to attend it. Maybe they can transfer to a South Dakota university instead. From ICE per CNN:
“The U.S. Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester nor will U.S. Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States.”
The agency suggested that students currently enrolled in the US consider other measures, like transferring to schools with in-person instruction.
China has stepped up again to take our place with another 60 million dollars. Look to China to bring us the vaccine for this Covid very soon, they are already in Phase 3 so the first 100 million doses should go on line fairly soon. With the trump bunch in charge here, I really don’t think the WHO and the rest of the world, will miss us.
If he can think of another way to screw up this country educationally or health wise, Broken Brain will do it.
Sometimes his massive incompetence reaches stunning levels.
The whole purpose of not issuing visas to foreign students for online classes is to force colleges to drop the online classes and open to personal instruction.This should keep the covid 19 with us in 2021.
And on top of that, Barbara, Trump is now psuhing every K-12 school to open for face-to-face classes, publich safety be darned, because he says everybody wants it.
The plain fact is that the current Administration doesn’t care about people.
Harvard isn’t goofing around. Harvard isn’t working for image. Harvard is looking at science and acting responsibly.
Let’s see. It’s too COVID – dangerous for Paul Manafort Roger Stone, and Michael Cohen and to remain in prison . . . but not so dangerous to send your kids and their teachers to school.
The Ivy League cancelled all fall sports. Separately, Sanford cancelled fall sports.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/ivy-league-cancels-football-and-other-fall-sports-due-to-covid-19.html
It’s time to recognize that COVID19 brain damage is a pre-existing condition among republican leaders.
Time to start investing outside the US.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/07/08/why-it-may-be-time-to-diversify-behind-us-stocks.html
John, I have heard they are postponing fall sports to spring. Guess we’ll find out.
It’s too dangerous for several top GOP to go to the convention. Not necessarily just COVID-19. Orangutan Illness as well.
GNOem, says testing and masks are a hoax.
“SIOUX FALLS | South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Wednesday doubled-down on her hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic by pointing to the state’s low hospitalization numbers and cast doubt on key recommendations from public health officials like wearing a mask.
The Republican governor’s reluctance to endorse mask-wearing and the state’s relatively low amount of testing have some health experts in the state worrying the early success in managing the pandemic could yet be undone.” Rapid City Journal 7.8.20
GNOem got her a certificate that says she gradeated school and so therefore, she knows more than them dang old egg headed scientists. Healthcare professionals, pffft, GNOem is a doctor of the everything. Ask her, she knows it all. So, how the hell did GNOem do it? https://www.southdacola.com/blog/2012/05/did-noem-get-special-treatment-attaining-her-college-degree-ht-helga/