Coronavirus: Harvard, Kent State, Others Cancel Classes

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by Michael John Scott

Harvard University is moving all graduate and undergraduate classes online amid concerns about COVID-19. President Lawrence “Larry” Bacow, in a Tuesday statement, said classes would ideally move online by March 23, when they were due to resume on campus following a spring recess.

In an effort to “limit exposure to the disease among members of our community … students are asked not to return to campus after Spring Recess and to meet academic requirements remotely until further notice,” Bacow said, per CBS Boston.

In the meantime, “we are transitioning over the course of the next few days to non-essential gatherings of no more than 25 people.” Bacow warned of “severely limited on-campus activities and interactions” in the near future.

The decision—which was “not made lightly”—came a day after Amherst College, some 90 miles east, announced it would transition to remote learning by March 23, per WCVB. “We know that many people will travel widely during spring break,” and “the risk of having hundreds of people return from their travels to the campus is too great,” said President Biddy Martin, noting classes for Thursday and Friday of this week would be canceled to allow faculty to adjust lesson plans.

“Because the duration of this disruption is unclear, we encourage students to take as many of their belongings as possible,” Martin added. As of Monday, there was one confirmed case and 40 presumptive cases of coronavirus in Massachusetts, per MassLive.

Kent State University which has about 40,000 students, at both the graduate and undergraduate level, announced on Tuesday that it was moving all face-to-face classes online.  The cancelation went into effect immediately with instructors told to have online iterations ready to go by March 16th.  Students living on campus were encouraged to go home until notified it was safe to return.  At least 5 were diagnosed with COVID19 in Ohio and more are expected.

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jess
4 years ago

My school has closed also. We are doing classes over these here internet tube things. My lazier students are loving it.

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