UNC-Chapel Hill pivots to remote teaching after coronavirus spreads among students during first week

[littlemissmartypants]

Source: Washington Post

By Nick Anderson
August 17 at 3:49 PM ET
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the largest schools in the country to bring students to campus for in-person teaching, said Monday it will pivot to all-remote instruction for undergraduates after testing showed a pattern of rapid spread of the novel coronavirus.

Officials announced the abrupt change just a week after classes began at the 30,000-student state flagship university.

They said 177 cases of the dangerous pathogen had been confirmed among students, out of 954 tested. Another 349 students were in quarantine because of possible exposure to the virus, they said.

The remote-teaching order for undergraduate classes will take effect Wednesday, and the university will take steps to allow students to leave campus housing without financial penalty if they wish.

More at the link.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/unc-chapel-hill-coronavirus-cluster/2020/08/17/8ebce060-e0ab-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

[machoneman]

1. No shit, Sherlock!

[SheltieLover]

2. Why is patriarchy always reactive, rather than proactive?

[Thekaspervote]

3. When you find out.....

[SheltieLover]

4. Lol

If women functioned this way, the species would have died out in however many days starvation takes because nobody would have prepared for the next meal.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. I have two theories.

1) The difference between convergent and divergent thought and
2) Under representation, lack of gender diversity on boards and committees

I can't believe we still have to protest the sh¡t. I am truly and well disgusted with the patriarchy.

❤ lmsp

[SheltieLover]

7. You are correct, of course 👍

Yes, it is ridiculous!

[Stallion]

5. WARNING: To All other University Presidents-Standard of Negligent Conduct has now Been Established

more pressure on university Presidents because now an attorney will be able to establish that they had knowledge of the likely result of their conduct in continuing on campus classes

[R Merm]

8. About 30 of my daughters graduating high school class just started at UNC.

One of her close friends has tested positive and another is waiting on her test results after her suite-mate tested positive. A couple of weeks ago she was mad that we would not let her visit any of her friends, so happy we didn't let her go.

[timber84]

9. My son attends UNC

A week before he was to move into the dorm we decided to move him into an apt off campus. Glad we made that decision.

[R Merm]

10. I don't know why they didn't do testing like other colleges,

mine was scheduled to start Emory, but decided at the last minute to do a gap year.

[brush]

11. Duh! How many times does this lesson have to be learned?

And this is at the college level. You'd think they'd be...

Never mind. There are just too many stupid people making decisions.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. It's so frustrating!

This didn’t have to happen. We failed so terrible that we can’t even open schools.

[paleotn]

13. Well....here we go.

Colleges in my area have scared the crap out of me since they all decided to open on campus. I get it. I do, but damn. Our state government has done a great job getting this thing under control, but thousands of students coming back here for the Fall may knock us back to March. Damn it!

[BumRushDaShow]

14. This is going to happen at every college

where they attempt to have "in-person" classes. This age group just doesn't "get it" and even though some have been trying to be diligent about wearing masks, most are NOT social-distancing, whether they have one on or not. Their assumption is, if they don't "feel sick" then they don't have it.

They just had a ridiculous mess with incoming freshman at Villanova University last week during their orientation -

Link to tweet

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Isabella Sanchez Castañeda
@Is_SanchezC
·
Aug 13, 2020
These two videos have been circulating on IG and group chats and have been confirmed to be from Villanova University. This is the class of 2024 on their second day of orientation. What do we expect from the rest of the school year? (2nd video below)
Profile photo, opens profile page on Twitter in a new tab

Isabella Sanchez Castañeda
@Is_SanchezC
Most are not wearing masks and definitely not social distancing. When I ask for who took the video I’ve received mixed responses - several say a University employee who wants to remain anonymous
10:41 AM · Aug 13, 2020

And then I just saw this too as a reply to the above tweet, with video from what happened at the University of North Georgia -

Link to tweet

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🇯🇲Black🇭🇹Aziz🇳🇬aNANsi🇹🇹
@Freeyourmindkid
This video was taken at a University of North Georgia party in Dahlonega. Let's check back on them in two weeks.
2:03 AM · Aug 16, 2020