01-31-2021, 05:57 PM
mrbigstuff wrote:
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[quote=mrbigstuff]
The private universities have been doing it well for four months, so it should provide all the public universities an excellent guidebook of how to do it properly. Not easy or fun, but it can be done.
UIUC is a public university.
I should have said "around here," as that is what I meant. Friends' kids have just recently returned to UMass Amherst.
Well, in Boston I recall a few students from one school were quite publicly returned home for violating policies, with no tuition refund. That may have helped get the point across to some students who otherwise would not have paid attention.
As for UMass Amherst, that is where I used to work. I have been following some of the social media connected to there as I still have friends and acquaintances working there and having to do their best to avoid infection. There are reports of many parties and gatherings, and students not following masking, etc. I fully expect a big spike in cases there over the next couple weeks.
As it was, with a reduced student population off campus - estimated at about 3500, and only about 900 living on campus, UMass students for much of the Fall were about 25% of all cases in the entire county where UMass Amherst is located. The total county population is about 160,000.