COVID-19

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by GoldenAnchor

Kent State, University of Akron, Case Western Reserve, University of Dayton and John Carroll have all either moved to online instruction or cancelled classes. Mike DeWine strongly urged all universities in Ohio to move online, the fourth confirmed case in Ohio was just recently announced. There is no known source for that case yet.

Oberlin, Walsh, Youngstown State, Ursuline, Baldwin Wallace, Ashland, Capital, Denison, Kenyon, Miami, OU, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein, Cincinnati and a lot of the community colleges.
One of the schools east of Cleveland has disclosed that a rabbi who visited the school from Isreal in February has been diagnosed with COVID-19

[sigmagirl2000]

Several schools in Massachusetts are closing for the remainder of the school year including Babson College, Harvard, MIT, Suffolk, Tufts, etc. Additional schools are closing temporarily including all the University of Massachusetts locations, Boston University, Northeastern, and more...

My questions now becomes - how do greek organizations handle this when the students are being told to move out and away and yet they are bound by leases with greek organizations? I'm sure the answers will vary by organization, school, and other factors, but the situation is becoming more complex by the day.

[honeychile]

My chapter's Centennial is the weekend of April 3-5. I'm starting to wonder if it will happen.

[lake]

Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000

Several schools in Massachusetts are closing for the remainder of the school year including Babson College, Harvard, MIT, Suffolk, Tufts, etc. Additional schools are closing temporarily including all the University of Massachusetts locations, Boston University, Northeastern, and more...

Interesting...I hadn't heard of schools closing for the remainder of the semester, just for a few weeks around spring break.

I respect schools/organizations/others' decisions to do this. Some may disagree, but if it helps slow things down or whatever, I'm all for it. I *do*, however, feel bad for service-industry workers whose jobs don't allow "working from home".

[carnation]

A fellow teacher's son is at Birmingham Southern. She says that if they make the kids finish the year with online classes, she'd better get a big fat refund check on his tuition because she's not paying that kind of money for him to teach himself.

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by carnation

A fellow teacher's son is at Birmingham Southern. She says that if they make the kids finish the year with online classes, she'd better get a big fat refund check on his tuition because she's not paying that kind of money for him to teach himself.

From what I've been told at most universities in Ohio, these are teacher-led classes online. Students aren't teaching themselves. They are getting their lectures live but remotely.
I wouldn't expect a refund check when the university is still paying the teachers to teach, plus are paying for extra online broadcasts.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by carnation

A fellow teacher's son is at Birmingham Southern. She says that if they make the kids finish the year with online classes, she'd better get a big fat refund check on his tuition because she's not paying that kind of money for him to teach himself.

You can let her know that I've been teaching - TEACHING - online for 6 years. He won't be teaching himself, and that professor is putting in too much work to go without pay.

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

You can let her know that I've been teaching - TEACHING - online for 6 years. He won't be teaching himself, and that professor is putting in too much work to go without pay.

Thank you!

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000

Several schools in Massachusetts are closing for the remainder of the school year including Babson College, Harvard, MIT, Suffolk, Tufts, etc. Additional schools are closing temporarily including all the University of Massachusetts locations, Boston University, Northeastern, and more...

MIT is actually going to online classes, not closing completely. They've cancelled classes for next week. The following week would have been spring break anyway. Starting on the 30th, classes will continue online for the remainder of the semester. Commencement may or may not be cancelled.

All undergraduates in dorms and fraternity and sorority houses are being forced to leave. There are residences for graduate students, but they're set up as apartments, rather than dorms with kitchens and bathrooms shared among many residents, so graduate students who live on campus can stay on campus.

This is causing major headaches, especially for some international students, because of visa issues or because they come from countries that have been hard hit by COVID-19.

As of yesterday, there were 92 confirmed or presumptive cases in Massachusetts, 70 of which were connected to a recent conference in Boston - hence why Boston/Cambridge schools are taking precautions.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by GoldenAnchor

Kent State, University of Akron, Case Western Reserve, University of Dayton and John Carroll have all either moved to online instruction or cancelled classes. Mike DeWine strongly urged all universities in Ohio to move online, the fourth confirmed case in Ohio was just recently announced. There is no known source for that case yet.

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Oberlin, Walsh, Youngstown State, Ursuline, Baldwin Wallace, Ashland, Capital, Denison, Kenyon, Miami, OU, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein, Cincinnati and a lot of the community colleges.
One of the schools east of Cleveland has disclosed that a rabbi who visited the school from Isreal in February has been diagnosed with COVID-19

You can add all Penn State campuses to the list.

https://behrend.psu.edu/feature/coro...BoYSOCsB0oSPGw

In light of the public health threat related to coronavirus, and in the best interests of the health and safety of students, faculty, staff and our local communities, Penn State has decided to move to remote learning for all classes, including classes at Penn State Behrend, beginning Monday, March 16, through Friday, April 3, with a plan to resume in-person classes on Monday, April 6, at the earliest.

For faculty and staff, the University will remain open.