Set shower times. Single rooms in dorms and hotels. Required masks. Welcome to college in the age of coronavirus.
and social media posts, they spent much of the spring saying it wasn't fair they had to pay full tuition rates to learn online.Still, some colleges have decided the risk of a community outbreak is too great.
“If you started in person and then had to flip back to virtual halfway through — that kind of yo-yo, you know — is that good for students and for the learning experience, or is it better to have a consistent space, the virtual space?” White said. “That's actually sort of field training for the future workforce, because when they graduate, chances are going to be increasing every day that they will be working in a virtual space in the future,” White said.
Syracuse University plans to move to an alternating in-person schedule for the fall term. Half of all students will attend a class in-person one day, with the other half following along virtually. The students will swap spots on alternate days.
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