Chico State nixes in-person classes, orders students out of dorms after COVID-19 outbreak
In the past week, outbreaks have been reported at the University of Iowa and Illinois State University, which both have had more than 500 positive test results since their fall semesters started in August. The University of
was one of the first to halt in-person learning, sending students home to complete the semester remotely after the school had an outbreak a week into classes.Like many campuses, Chico State was taking a variety of precautions to enable at least some students to live on campus. It limited university housing to single-room accommodations for about 750 students — roughly one-third of the typical occupancy, according to its website. Students were allowed to begin moving in on Aug.
“Just three days into the semester, the University reported a troubling number of positive COVID-19 cases on campus,” Hutchinson said in her statement. It did not specify the cause of the outbreak but said cases spread quickly. Within days, the number of cases “ballooned to nearly 30, impacting both classrooms and a majority of on campus residence halls — with an even greater number of reported exposures that could have an exponential and devastating effect on campus.”
University officials did not immediately return calls and messages seeking more clarity on the outbreak and the order for students to move off campus within a week.The Cal State system of 23 campuses is the nation’s largest four-year public university system, with 480,000 students. All its campuses are conducting the vast majority of classes online, with only about 7% of courses, including labs and other hands-on classes, being taught in person, spokesman Mike Uhlenkamp said.
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