Problems With Closing Colleges For Coronavirus

[Searc]

Without any testing this seems like a bad idea.
Young people can seem to carry disease and not know. And now you are sending thousands all over the country.
It seems like they should have done some testing to make sure it wasn't already in schools before they did this. Close the High schools and grade schools to not have claasses colleges too, but sending them home seems really dopey.

They are going home for Spring Break, regardless...and most of them will be staying there, possibly for the rest of the semester.

 

[NYCgrrl]

My daughter has a bunch of schools around hers that are going to online, but nothing so far for hers. Her school does have a lot of culinary students and I wonder how that would work along with science majors who do most of their work in labs and not lecture halls or classrooms.

The next month or so will be interesting for sure.

Can't say with certainty about science majors but degree (not certificate) culinary arts students take many classes that do not involve lab : food control, beverage control, required math classes like statistics, etc. I suspect it would be the same for the non applied science degree programs such as the classic sciences.

 

[okeydokey]

Without any testing this seems like a bad idea.
Young people can seem to carry disease and not know. And now you are sending thousands all over the country.
It seems like they should have done some testing to make sure it wasn't already in schools before they did this. Close the High schools and grade schools to not have claasses colleges too, but sending them home seems really dopey.

With what test kits? The US decided not to use the available kits made available weeks ago by the WHO, insisting our CDC would make them. And they failed.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Then keep them in the dorms...
You know every time my daughter comes home I get sick... I'm just saying this one could be a dosey...
It just seems like we are supposed to be quartering not shipping all over the place. you know try not to mingle.

 

[mom2rtk]

Mizzou has another week and a half of class before spring break. No word from them yet on any changes. I'm thinking they hope to get to spring break, then maybe add time if needed.

They're monitoring closely though and posting updates on their site daily.

So far one case in KC metro and one case in St. Louis. And none at Mizzou. But that could change quickly.

 

[mjkacmom]

So a professor at DD’s university just tested positive, I saw something saying classes are cancelled Thursday/Friday and break starts Monday, 2 weeks early.

 

[NYCgrrl]

A lot of people advocating that students stay in place at their dorms are forgetting that the staff of colleges tend to be older than the students and in a different health group.

 

[bethbuchall]

Spring break in NY about April 11
Not saying don't do - saying without spot testing you could have just created a bigger knightmare. Why not just suspend classes?

College spring break in NY is now and in the next couple of weeks. My son is due to come home for break tomorrow or Friday with break all of next week.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Suny my daughter goes to is APril 5th and ends 11th
I figured they were all on same schedule.

 

[skyblue17]

Then keep them in the dorms...
You know every time my daughter comes home I get sick... I'm just saying this one could be a dosey...
It just seems like we are supposed to be quartering not shipping all over the place. you know try not to mingle.

Who keeps them in the dorms? Who makes sure they have enough food? Who makes sure they don't leave? What do they do while they are in their tiny dorm rooms for weeks with no estimate of when they might be able to leave? Who keeps the parents arriving on campus saying "you can't hold my child like this!" away?

 

[yoopermom]

DS is a MSU alum, lives less than an hour from there now, and just texted to say that it is closing and going to all online. We are supposed to drive down to visit him in ten days during my spring break, but now I'm not so sure....

Terri

 

[cabanafrau]

Spring break in NY about April 11
Not saying don't do - saying without spot testing you could have just created a bigger knightmare. Why not just suspend classes?

Spring break varies. At least online classes allows the possibility for some classes to go forward. Suspending classes altogether would cause tremendous upheaval for many college students, leaving them in limbo as far as graduating, undertaking planned internships, impeding their ability to move forward in their studies, etc. I know for my daughter she's at the point where what she's taking for the next two semesters is already determined in order to complete her degree. Most of her courses now are only offered one time yearly. Miss out on one class it's an entire year added. If that class happens to be a prereq for something else in her final two semesters, it's another year added. That is a tremendous financial burden for college students and/or their parents.

 

[bethbuchall]

Suny my daughter goes to is APril 5th

Binghamton is this week. Albany, Buffalo, Brockport and several others is next week.

 

[cabanafrau]

DS is a MSU alum, lives less than an hour from there now, and just texted to say that it is closing and going to all online. We are supposed to drive down to visit him in ten days during my spring break, but now I'm not so sure....

Terri

MI Tech has announced a very similar move to MSU. CMU has so far committed to going online next week when their spring break ends. Wayne State has simply announced they are extending spring break through next week, so I'm thinking they don't have anything in place to go online. I know I heard a month ago Western was already strategizing about allowing international students to remain in the dorms over spring break.

MSU was the first domino to fall because they have an actual case, haven't announced if it's student or faculty.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

U sure this isn’t a quick winter break

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

She says it’s april 5

 

[Hikergirl]

Suny my daughter goes to is APril 5th and ends 11th
I figured they were all on same schedule.

The SUNY my ds goes to is the same week.
My dd’s starts this coming Monday.

My ds’s SUNY school has no plans to close, they will remain open.
I’m assuming because for the majority of programs students will not be able to finish the semester with online classes only

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Where u on winter break right now - oops sorry thought I was texting daughter.

 

[bethbuchall]

U sure this isn’t a quick winter break

I'm sure for Buffalo, Albany, and Brockport. I'm not positive for Binghamton. I know they sent the students home on break so that fewer would be in town for the St. Patrick's Day parade. They may have a second break in April.

Edit: Just checked Binghamton's calendar. I was wrong. It wasn't their spring break. It was just a couple of days to get them out of town for parade weekend.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I thought they were shutting all the sunys?