The Case Against Reopening: We all want to be back on campus. But when it comes to plans for the fall, there’s only one right decision

According to a Chronicle list, most colleges are currently planning to reopen their campuses this fall. In announcing that the California State University system will be mostly online this fall, Chancellor Timothy P. White reportedly told trustees that even if tests were obtainable, weekly testing w...

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Published in:The Chronicle of Higher Education 2020-05
Main Author: Yoshinobu, Stan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to Health Care
At risk students
Bans
Campuses
Classrooms
Climate Control
College campuses
College students
Colleges & universities
Community
Community Relations
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Disease transmission
Educational Environment
Enrollment
Enrollments
Experiments
Fear
Financial Problems
Immunization
In Person Learning
Learning
Low income groups
Pandemics
Quarantine
Risk Assessment
Teaching
Vaccines
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Summary:According to a Chronicle list, most colleges are currently planning to reopen their campuses this fall. In announcing that the California State University system will be mostly online this fall, Chancellor Timothy P. White reportedly told trustees that even if tests were obtainable, weekly testing would cost the system $25 million per week. Even if a treatment is shown to be effective in clinical trials, will your college be able to obtain enough to cover all students and faculty and staff members? Because colleges cannot ensure this, how can we rationalize putting at-risk students in harm’s way?
ISSN:0009-5982
1931-1362