Universities across the country move classes online

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LAST UPDATED 22 HOURS AGO
BY HEIDI PÉREZ-MORENO

It’s been about a week since UNC-Chapel Hill announced undergraduate classes would go online after several COVID-19 clusters formed in residential dorms and fraternities.

Since then, colleges and universities across the country have either delayed the start of in-person classes or moved the fall semester entirely online after reporting similar cases.

“UNC was the first domino — the very first domino to fall,” said Bryan Alexander, a higher-ed thinker and futurist who teaches graduate seminars at Georgetown University. “But there will be more. Colleges and universities like to follow each other and really want to see what other campuses are doing. Some call it herd mentality. I think, a lot of times, they just want to see if something works.”

A day after UNC-Chapel Hill’s announcement, the University of Notre Dame announced undergraduate classes would go online for two weeks, after 147 students tested positive for the virus. That number has since risen to 448 cases among students, according to the school’s COVID-19 dashboard that is updated on a daily basis ...

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/08/unc-domino-effect-0825

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1. Towson University moves classes online for entire fall

By Morgan Eichensehr – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal
12 hours ago

The school had previously postponed the start of in-person fall classes for one week after 55 university community members tested positive for Covid-19 ...

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2020/08/26/towson-u-moves-fall-classes-online-for-semester.html

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2. University of Oregon pivots to mostly remote learning

Author: Christine Pitawanich
Published: 5:26 PM PDT August 26, 2020
Updated: 5:28 PM PDT August 26, 2020

EUGENE, Ore. — On Tuesday one of Oregon’s largest universities, the University of Oregon, announced classes will be mostly remote this fall.

Alejandro Suarez, an incoming UO freshman said he saw it coming ...

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/university-of-oregon-pivots-to-mostly-remote-learning-this-fall/283-0bd64015-681f-4bb4-9729-df8173959ea1

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3. Kicked and recommended. ❤ nt

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4. West Virginia Wesleyan College to remain online only for entire fall

by: Rodney Lamp
Posted: Aug 26, 2020 / 04:45 PM EDT / Updated: Aug 26, 2020 / 08:01 PM EDT

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Wesleyan College Board of Trustees has voted to extend online learning for the duration of the fall semester.

Earlier this month, Wesleyan opted to begin the semester with online instruction with the possibility of bringing students back to campus on Sept. 7, pending the situation regarding COVID-19 ...

https://www.wboy.com/back-to-school/west-virginia-wesleyan-college-to-remain-online-only-for-entire-fall-semester/

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5. University of Oregon says fall classes will be mostly online

https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2020/08/uo-says-it-will-offer-primarily-remote-online-instruction-for-fall.html

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6. In person or online? Here are 100 public universities to watch

Nick Anderson
August 26, 2020 at 2:06 p.m. EDT

The coronavirus pandemic has forced colleges and universities around the country to rethink how they are teaching as the fall semester gets under way. Some are primarily online, others primarily in person. Some have hybrid plans balanced between both methods. And some are still deciding.

Adding to the uncertainty: A number of schools have said they will start online but maintain hopes of teaching in person after two or three weeks. Below is a list of 100 important public universities, their teaching strategies and their opening day for undergraduates. These schools are drawn from every state and the District of Columbia. (Wyoming has only one public four-year school.)

As of Wednesday, nearly half of these schools were teaching primarily or fully online. Just over a quarter were teaching primarily in person. That is a sign of the extraordinary disruption the pandemic has wreaked in education throughout the United States. Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has so far killed at least 175,000 Americans ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/26/100-public-universities-to-watch-coronavirus/

[tanyev]

7. I don't get the 2-3 week delay thing.

School districts here are doing that, too. What in the world is going to change in two weeks that makes in person learning safer? It's just kicking the can down the road.

[former9thward]

8. Yet they continue to charge full tuition.

Remote learning is next to being worthless and everyone knows it. There is no learning from class interaction, either with each other or with the teacher. Anyone can take the class for the student.