Harvard University announced Monday it will reopen with fewer than half of its undergraduates on campus, the latest sign of the extraordinary constraints that colleges face across the country as they map out plans for the fall term in the shadow of a deadly pandemic.
No more than 40 percent of Harvard’s undergrads will live at the Ivy League campus in Cambridge, Mass., when the school year begins. Most of them will be first-year students, given priority access to help them acclimate to college life despite the unprecedented disruptions of the novel coronavirus. All undergraduate courses will be taught remotely, the university said, no matter where the students are living.
Last March, most students at Harvard and elsewhere were forced to evacuate their dormitories and finish the spring term through remote learning. Now, educators are contemplating an extremely limited resumption of the campus experience, complete with masks, viral testing regimens, quarantine housing and a plethora of online classes.
“We determined that our fall plan must enable us to bring back as many students as possible while providing sufficient margin to accommodate an escalation in the prevalence of COVID-19 in our area,” Harvard said in a statement. “Anything less and we could find ourselves again facing the prospect of asking our students to leave, on short notice, prior to the end of the semester.”
Harvard’s plan resembles others that have been unveiled in recent days for prominent residential universities. But there are vast differences in approach among schools nationwide. Some are bringing nearly all students back to campus for at least some face-to-face instruction, while others are planning for nearly all courses to be remote.
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Harvard University will reopen with fewer than half of its undergraduates because most of them were Antifa animals who were coronavirused. Many professors were coronavirused because of their mitzvos and maisim tovim will also not be back.
Do you feel the same about Yeshivot? By the way there are many misguided Jews among these “antifa animals” you so eagerly wish to be exterminated. What about the nazis? after all there were a lot of misguided Jews among the Kedoshim in Europe.
The silver lining to this cloud is that they can only poison with Marxist ideology half their student body.
As a Harvard trained health professional, it is just unbelievable that matzav publishes on it’s website such malignant comments.
I would to know where do these self-righteous commentators “run” when urgent, life threatening illness strikes??