30 of the houses were already under quarantine as of yesterday.

My source was mistaken. Pref at Ole Miss will still be virtual, but it is only on Saturday.

Small world!

Fauci and Birx literally just said not to send infected college students back home and that they should continue to quarantine on campus.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fauc...tbreaks-2020-9

One thing that many students are not thinking about is what happens with student loans if they take a semester or more off. While there is a grace period of 6 months once a student drops below half time, that grace period can only be used once. So if a student takes it now in the middle of their academic program, under current guidelines, they do not have one when they graduate. Payments will have to begin immediately upon graduation.



https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment

https://www.studentloanborrowerassis...grace-periods/

These kids are so screwed :(

Kutztown (the borough not the college) is planning to enact an ordinance next week that no residence can have more than 10 occupants and you have to wear a mask when you are within 6 feet of anyone indoors or out. Paging shadokat- how much of the student housing is in the borough?

What the University is doing:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mca...outputType=amp

Another campus has shut down due to the virus getting out of hand:

https://news.yahoo.com/few-students-...121626660.html

And now they go home all across the state, if not the nation, spreading it wherever they go. :mad::mad::mad:

UGA also is saying for students to return home to quarantine. They are renting hotel rooms and contracting with private housing providers to provide places for students to quarantine if they can't return home. The problem is how to get meals. My friend's daughter is a freshman. There's an outbreak of COVID in her dorm and she was supposed to get test results today. But her daughter doesn't know how she is supposed to get meals from the dining hall while waiting to find out. She doesn't want to leave and be around others to go pick up food from the dining hall, but she can't live on delivery alone. So frustrating. Also, she's an OOS student. So if her mom goes and picks her up, she brings COVID home to her mom and sibling.

My youngest son is now recovering from Covid at college. His brother says that somehow, robots are delivering meals to him. He feels like he was run over by a bus but no longer feels "sick" per se.

Bless his heart and yours! I hope he fully recovers.

Hope that he is feeling better soon.

Wishing your son a speedy recovery!

Speedy recovery to him! This is a year his generation will discuss all their lives.

Did they test them as soon as they got there? A lot of them probably came in with it.

Thank you all! He's slowly but surely coming back. This is the boy who had to leave for college the day of his sister's memorial service, then had a bad concussion from cheerleading last year, and now this. I can't believe he's had 3 major occurrences in 3 years of college.

Poor guy! Thinking good healing thoughts for him.

Fraternity members ignore safety guidelines on bid day

https://thedmonline.com/fraternity-m...es-on-bid-day/

Yeah, we heard about the "ordinance". Problem is all the state schools are having the same problem. It's why Bloomsburg is now under all virtual classes. Sadly, when you have 18-22 year olds with lots of free time on their hands, they're going to find something to pass the time.

I get that people want their kids to have a normal college experience, but there is no normal right now. If your kid is in college, online is normal now. And if your kid went back to school, likelihood is they're getting COVID and bringing it home when they kick the kids out of dorms and housing. Bloomsburg has actually said that if you want to stay on campus in the dorms, you can do so. That's for money sake I'm sure, but it makes sense to leave your COVID riddled kid on campus and not bring them home to give you COVID.

I'll keep you updated if I hear anything else.

My son is a freshman in college and all of his classes are virtual, however he is in a dorm. He just called me freaking out because he missed one of the posted assignments for a class- it was on a tab that he didn't see. The university has said over and over that the professors are working with students if they have issues. So my son emailed the professor. Professor was sorry/not sorry. its a zero.

The kids were given no guidance on how to use the systems. Different professors are using different systems (some are canvas, some are McGraw-Hill).

I told him to chalk it up to a learning experience and he will have plenty of points he can get to make up for one zero. (and told him to feel free to email his advisor the response from the professor).

Its an odd time for sure.

I’ve got a friend whose daughter is a freshman at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. They report one positive Covid-19 case. How is that possible? One? I don’t believe it.

I totally believe it.

GCC is the crown jewel of conservative Christian colleges. They take zero federal funding so they can do whatever they want.

The one case must be the affirmative action student, ie the Democrat.

Have him email the department chair, if he feels the need. The advisor is either another professor (peer) or a professional advisor who can't really do anything. Emailing the chair bucks it up the hierarchy to someone with the responsibility to gently remind the professor of the expectations.

Signed,
A Department Chair :)

Thank you! I suggested that as well, but I refuse to helicopter and do it for him, so we will see what he does or doesn't do! It's a learning experience for everyone.

You definitely don't want to do it for him -- that would not be well-received, lol. If it's negligible points, I would chalk it up to a learning experience. My son did the exact same thing this week -- he missed an online quiz that was posted on Sunday and his professor stated in the syllabus that you have to check Blackboard every day because quizzes are posted for 24 hours and she won't re-post them. I suggested emailing his professor, just to let her know he was still figuring everything out and didn't intentionally blow off the quiz. Between hybrid, synchronous and asynchronous online, and some face-to-face, the schedules can be challenging to figure out.

This is all very helpful to me since I’m going back to school online in January. And I tend to miss things like that all the time!

Texas Tech
https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/10/texas...y-coronavirus/

Miami (OH) University
https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/10/covid...y-coronavirus/

SMDH

An update on the situation at IU

https://www.idsnews.com/article/2020...IN5VyspAEY3h9E

California State Universities to remain online for the 2021 Spring term. Also my son who has started his first semester our local community college received notice today that his spring semester will also be online. It's possible that any California private universities on the semester system might consider doing the same for the spring term. As noted in the article, no word yet on the UC campuses.



https://edsource.org/2020/csu-chance...ng-term/639954

Temple University students move out amid COVID-19 concerns

https://abcnews.go.com/US/temple-uni...e_hero_related

Michigan State is open and just quarantined 23 Fraternity and Sorority Houses. https://nbc25news.com/news/local/fra...-to-quarantine

UW-Madison Faculty Senate votes to cancel spring break, approves new academic calendar

https://www.wbay.com/2020/09/14/uw-m...-spring-break/