UCLA just suspended in-person classes until at least April 10 which is the end of week 2 of spring quarter (next week is finals week for winter quarter):
https://www.google.com/amp/s/losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/03/10/ucla-coronavirus-classes-athletics-events/amp/
My son just called from Boston College. They just returned yesterday from spring break. Harvard, MIT, Babson and western Mass schools Smith and Amherst going to online classes. They wonder if they’re next. He said meetings have taken place. I noted today their college is in the same county as the highest number of MA cases, people who attended the Biogen Boston conference.
@homerdog In the case of Bowdoin, or another college in similar situation, I’d think it would allow students back on the campus to fetch their stuff, probably spread out over days or weeks after the break (rather than all at once), if it does decide to adopt remote instructions. Would a college give students and their families the option to continue living on campus while all classes are virtual? I don’t know. It’s possible because some students (e.g. some foreign students) may not have a convenient home to go back to.
From Tufts:
Beginning March 25, University instruction will be conducted virtually for the remainder of the semester. You will receive additional information from your schools about the next steps to take in order to carry out this transition to distance learning. We appreciate your patience while your schools prepare this guidance over the next several days.
To prepare for this change, all AS&E classes will be canceled on Friday, March 13 and undergraduate spring break will be extended until March 25. This extra time will provide students with opportunity to pack their residence hall rooms and depart campus by Monday, March 16 and faculty with additional planning time to move to distance learning. We expect all students to make best efforts to comply with this move-out date and not return to campus except as noted below.
Students who are unable to return to their permanent residences at this time due to travel restrictions or other significant constraints will be allowed to remain in the dormitories. Registration with Residential Life is required but should be straightforward. Fletcher students residing within Blakely Hall will be required to register with Fletcher’s Office of Student Affairs. For those remaining on campus, services and resources on the Medford/Somerville and SMFA campuses will be adjusted accordingly.
Yale is going online after break which students are on now.
Grad school goes on as normal but online. D is working on PhD. She is home but planning on going back to New haven since she doesn’t live on campus. She only has health care at Yale. She is lucky though. She isn’t teaching this semester, has easy classes to do online (just 2), and work for comps is reading which can do anywhere (unlike students in labs). She hopes her physical therapy she is suppose to start will still happen.
Situation is new and some of this might change.
Depends on how the courses are set up and managed. D21 took online courses for years through middle school and early high school before becoming an in-person dual credit student for junior and senior years. Some of her courses were extremely interactive, meeting multiple times a week for hours at a time in group Skype fashion. Science labs were done at home with home kits. I hold a Masters in one of the sciences, and I can attest to those science courses being rigorous and thorough, with clear and detailed labs. D21 transitioned into the in-person college classes just fine this year…and feels the online experience is much more difficult than in-person classes since it demands much more self-discipline. Her online foreign language courses (including AP Spanish Language) were so good that she was well prepared to start taking 300-level Spanish courses at the local state University this year as a high school junior. She got a 98 for the semester. She will graduate high school already having gone through the advanced level of Spanish courses offered at that nearby state college. So it truly depends on the way the online course is set up. It can be extremely interactive. The days of boring online courses with just a bunch of questions and auto-answers are over. Or at least they should be, with all those other, much more interactive options out there.
With a death toll now over 4,000, I don’t think disappointment about walking across a stage is at the top of considerations.
Add Ohio University to the list.
@homerdog , my son is at Hamilton, a NESCAC. Spring break starts this weekend for two weeks and there has been no mention of the college going online or students staying home after break. Just an email about the college monitoring the situation. My son is on the rowing team and they leave for SC this Saturday for two weeks of practice. I had to pay for the trip. My concern is that Hamilton will decide to go online and cancel spring sports while he’s in SC.
I think it’s interesting to see which schools are online through March and which ones have told kids to “pack it up” for the rest of the semester. I wonder how schools are deciding which one of these strategies to use.
We are driving up to Tufts and clearing out DS’s dorm on Friday. I really feel bad for the seniors. Not the way you want to finish out college. Troubled times.
@123France Ugh. I bet Hamilton will communicate something before break. I think Cornell has two weeks until their spring break too and they just announced today that kids will stay on campus until then taking online classes and then will pack up for the year. I don’t want to jinx you but I think it’s highly unlikely your S is going on that trip. All other NESCAC athletes I know at other schools had their spring break training trips canceled!
Stanford will now be web-based for the spring semester. Details still unfolding.
@homerdog, the college better decide fast. They leave in four days. Trip has already been paid for.
I think they are all just doing the best they can. It’s uncharted territory for all of us.
If students are sent home will they be refunded meal plan, dorm costs, etc? They will have to incur these expenses elsewhere so it only seems equitable to get a pro rated amount back
@amsunshine I agree. I just can’t find any rhyme or reason as to why some kids are asked to leave campus for the semester and some have been told they will be online for a few weeks, to stay home for now, and final decision about reporting back to school is tbd. Some big schools have packed it up for the year. Some have not. Some small schools have packed it up. Some not. Location and virus count in the state doesn’t seem to matter either.
Belmont extends spring break:
Belmont has extended Spring Break by a week and will be making several other significant scheduling changes — all in response to the global coronavirus crisis.
In response to CDC recommendations and the general risks associated with the virus, Belmont has canceled all academic activity through March 22, according to an email sent out Tuesday afternoon by university President Dr. Bob Fisher.
Beginning March 23, all classes will continue in an online-only format until April 6, a period that Fisher said could be extended in the email.
“We believed it was necessary to make these decisions for the safety of our community and to do our part to mitigate the growing impact of COVID-19,” said Fisher in a press release sent out the same day.
To make up for the lost class time, Easter Break has been canceled — but that lost time will also extend to student programming and university-sponsored travel.
All academic trips scheduled until April 3 have been canceled unless approved by senior leaders, and all student programming events, including WELL Core events, through April 3 have been canceled or postponed.
Commencement scheduling is currently unaffected.
Students currently living on campus are permitted to stay, but all students currently off-campus are asked to remain so until the online-only period is over and in-person classes resume. Residential students will be allowed to move back April 3.
In the email sent out to all students, Fisher said the plans were subject to further change and requested the community’s patience.
“We ask that you try to understand how difficult it is to make these decisions,” Fisher said.
Any employee or student who believes they may have been exposed to COVID-19 cannot return to campus and was asked to notify healthinfo@belmont.edu and follow the CDC’s guidelines for self-isolation.
Add Duke to the list
University of Maryland is adding a second week to spring break and then going online for at least two weeks. Students are being asked not to return to campus after spring break but they are not yet being asked to move out.