With the growing numbers of new COVID-19 cases in both North Carolina and the country, Duke University is adjusting plans for the residential component of its fall semester.

But as the summer deepened, the wait for test results grew longer, she said, and college officials couldn’t find someone who could offer results more quickly. “Anything is possible,” Taylor said. That news would have been good to know before Arianna Miskin, a graduate student at the university studying for a master’s of public health, signed a lease in Washington.


Update on Duquesne University Planning for Fall Semester 2020 Dear admitted Duquesne students and families, I know you’re anxious to learn about our plans for the upcoming fall 2020 semester and academic year at Duquesne University, in light of the current health crisis facing our nation.

Capacity limits are likely in these areas as well as other gathering spaces around the campus. Other colleges, such as George Washington, are offering a tuition discount.
That was after it told students in June that officials hoped to offer face-to-face classes.Around that time, said the college’s president, Margee Ensign, the window for testing results in that region was about two days. Should institutions require only out-of-state students to quarantine? But, she added, people have framed the decision as though it was online courses versus traditional in-person classes.

“Anything is possible,” Taylor said. Of course, students were disappointed, Ensign said, and the move may lead to financial or recruitment concerns down the line.

Administrators now have weeks left before the fall semester and little expectation that anything substantial will change, Kelchen said. But as the summer deepened, the wait for test results grew longer, she said, and college officials couldn’t find someone who could offer results more quickly. • Prompting actions and associated response actions identified in this plan may not occur sequentially. He will turn 87. To help make her decision, she ran a Twitter poll.She thought her peers would overwhelmingly tell her to go back to campus. Administrators now have weeks left before the fall semester and little expectation that anything substantial will change, Kelchen said. “We came to the conclusion that the fully remote (classes), we could make that a better experience, actually, because faculty now have extra time to prepare for that.” Dickinson obviously isn’t charging room and board for students who aren’t living on campus, and it’s waiving a 4% tuition increase and its student activity fees. That raises the question of who should be required to quarantine, said Gerri Taylor, co-chair of the American College Health Association’s COVID-19 task force.

Instead, she found some had encouraged her to stay with family in west Texas, where COVID-19 rates are low because she could save money and avoid exposure to coronavirus. Colleges that are reopening must plan for if and when to move courses online, looking at the number of COVID-19 cases in the community and the number on campus, among students but also faculty and staff. A person might test negative, but they could be positive three days later, Taylor said. The bottom line: College students are frustrated, no matter what option their university is currently taking.Others, like Hannah Landry, a sophomore at Texas A&M University, are grappling over where they should live. His only muscles that still function are those that control eye movement.Despite his disability, Sawyer still works as an engineer from his home, designing electronics for Hayward Industries. Instead, she found some had encouraged her to stay with family in west Texas, where COVID-19 rates are low because she could save money and avoid exposure to coronavirus. “I think families also have to have contingency plans.”  Dickinson College, a private liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was one of earlier universities to announce plans to forgo an in-person fall semester in favor of a digital one. Miskin said the university has communicated well about its reactions to the pandemic, which she called a “once-in-a-lifetime event.” But she wishes the administration acted earlier in the summer. UW Adjusts Delivery of Courses as Part of Fall Return Plan. At this time, university officials are working to find a way to offer primarily in-person classes, which is ideal to most, the university said. “We came to the conclusion that the fully remote (classes), we could make that a better experience, actually, because faculty now have extra time to prepare for that.” Dickinson obviously isn’t charging room and board for students who aren’t living on campus, and it’s waiving a 4% tuition increase and its student activity fees.