COVID 'Clusters' Force UNC To Cancel In-Person Classes After One Week--The SMRT Campus

[TheBlackAdder]

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And this was their SMART Campus.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Monday afternoon that the school was moving its undergraduate courses to online only, just a week after the semester began. Over the weekend, the school had announced four separate “clusters” of COVID-19 ― defined as five or more cases ― in student housing.

As of Monday, the school reported only four spaces remained in the quarantine housing set aside for students who had been exposed to the virus. An announcement from Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz and Provost Robert A. Blouin said undergraduate courses would move to remote learning as of Wednesday, August 19, while “our graduate, professional and health affairs schools will continue to be taught as they are, or as directed by the schools.”

What happens next for the thousands of students who moved in less than two weeks ago was not exactly clear. “Due to this announcement as well as the reduction of campus activities, we expect the majority of our current undergraduate residential students to change their residential plans for the fall,” they wrote. “We are working to identify additional effective ways to further achieve de-densification of our residential halls and our campus facilities.”

Officials at universities around the U.S. scrambled on Monday to deal with new COVID-19 clusters at the start of the fall semester, some of them linked to off-campus parties and packed clubs.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-clusters-us-universities-as-semester-begins_n_5f3ade02c5b670ab17aea1be

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[underpants]

1. College paper op-Ed this morning

[Tanuki]

3. They aren't wrong. eom

[abqtommy]

2. snark on: If only someone had tried to warn them! snark off The idiots...