Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Maddie Meyer
Harvard University welcomes freshmen and some other students to campus this fall semester, but students will have to take coronavirus exams every three days, classes will still be held online, and the enrollment, the school announced Monday.
Students in higher grades may request a return if they do not have enough technology at home or if they have difficult family circumstances. The total percentage of college students living on campus would be limited to around 40%.
“Assuming we maintain a 40% density in the spring semester, we would bring a class back again, and our priority right now is to bring seniors to campus,” said Harvard. “Under this plan, the first few years they would go home and learn remotely in the spring.” She hopes to issue a decision on spring in early December.
Harvard is the last school to announce its plans for the fall semester as coronavirus cases continue to rise in the U.S.
Harvard previously announced that all teaching would be done online. Today also said tuition will not be discounted by $ 49,653, although remotely enrolled students will not pay the accommodation fees. The semester will begin as scheduled on September 2 and all students living on campus are expected to leave for Thanksgiving.
Students must take the Covid-19 test upon arrival and every three days thereafter.
Anticipating that many students under this plan will not live on campus for any part of the next academic year, Harvard will allow all enrolled university students studying remotely throughout the year to take two courses on the Harvard Summer School campus. in 2021 with exempt registration. .
Harvard’s plan is more restrictive than that of other universities that have been announcing their fall plans. Last week, Yale University announced that it would allow 60% of college students to return to campus. Other Ivy League schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University, plan to reopen most of their residential hallways and teach some classes in person.
Princeton University also announced Monday that it will bring freshmen and sophomores to campus in the fall and sophomores and sophomores in the spring, with tests of Covid-19 upon arrival and “regularly thereafter.” . Most of the classes would be remote. Rutgers University, also in New Jersey, announced Monday that its fall semester would feature a majority of remote classes and “extremely limited” housing on campus.
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