'It was so much fun to be in person and to have so many people together, but it's also, I'm not sure it serves the community at large,' one professor said.
As college students across the U.S. return for the spring semester, instructors at one school are raising concerns about in-person teaching.
With roughly 10,000 students flooding back onto campus, some professors at Ohio State University are uneasy about the safety of in-person learning, questioning if it's wise to return to the classroom amid the ongoing Omicron-fueled COVID-19 surge. "This was the weird thing today," Guy Rub, a professor at OSU's Moritz College of Law, told Columbus news station."It was so much fun to be in person and to have so many people together, but it's also, I'm not sure it serves the community at large."
Rub highlighted the rising COVID case numbers in Ohio and the packed hospitals while making his case for remote learning. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the Buckeye State has seen over 134,000 new cases of the virus in the last seven days. While appreciative of the safety measures that have been taken by the school, Rub nonetheless thinks they should hold virtual classes for the first few weeks of the semester.
Professors are raising concerns about the return to in-person learning at Ohio State University. Above, people are seen on the OSU campus in Columbus during the first year of the pandemic."If someone needs to be in the lab, the lab will be in-person, while if someone needs to hear a lecture, the lecture can be on Zoom," he told WCMH."I think that would make more sense versus one size fits all, which does not fit all.
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