CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Case Western Reserve University officials sent out in a note to the campus community earlier this month that the university plans to offer courses both online and in-person in the fall.
“We also know that some of our international students now in their home countries may not be able to get back to campus for the new academic year,” the note reads. “Given that possibility—as well as others involving renewed infection increases—we intend to offer courses in both traditional and remote models.”
College campuses were among the first closings due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Ohio will cautiously begin to reopen in May, but the plan doesn’t involve schools or college campuses.
It’s too early to speculate what will happen with coronavirus cases over the summer, Ohio Department of Higher Education spokesman Jeff Robinson wrote in an email. Planning for the fall can’t wait, though.
“Our colleges and universities are critical to the resurgence of Ohio’s economy as we emerge from this crisis,” Robinson wrote. “Having the campuses looking at and planning for a variety of scenarios allows for monitoring of what happens as the state gradually reopens. From there, it can be determined what scenario(s) would work best.”
Small numbers of CWRU staff will return to work on campus next month, and the university plans to start training faculty for the new “bi-modal delivery model,” CWRU spokesman Bill Lubinger wrote in an email.
Kent State University has moved the first two parts of the summer semester completely online, but will decide what to do during the last section over the summer, according to its website. CSU has done the same for its summer session, leaving the decision on the portion beginning June 27 until later.
Youngstown State University formed “Take Charge of Our Future Focus Groups” to consider calendar changes and other aspects of addressing the ongoing pandemic.
Miami University staff are looking at additional courses that could be modified to be offered remotely because of the possibility that students wouldn’t return to campus in the fall, according to an internal email obtained by the Cincinnati Enquirer in March.
Bruce Johnson, president of the Inter-University Council of Ohio, told the Columbus Dispatch that closures have already cost Ohio’s 14 public universities between $290 million and $310 million this fiscal year. Closing up campus in the fall would add to that financial strain.
Kent State University officials announced on Monday that the university plans to reduce its budget by 20% for fiscal year 2021 to offset a $110 million loss due to the coronavirus. University of Akron also plans to make deep cuts because of losses from the pandemic.
In other states, universities are beginning to announce when students would head back to campus. Purdue University, in Indiana, seems to be the first major public institution to declare its plan, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. That plan involves extensive testing and contact tracing.
Whether or not the number of coronavirus cases will surge after social distancing measures are dropped is hard to predict. In Ohio, the roll-back doesn’t involve K-12 schools or college campuses, and there are still restrictions on restaurants, public venues and mass gatherings.
Models aren’t easily adapted to predict a second “spike” in cases, because researchers are short on data already. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said during an interview Wednesday that the U.S. “could be in for a bad fall” if a treatment isn’t found by then, reports CNBC.
Researchers estimate a vaccine for the disease could be 12-18 months away, if everything goes well. Developing a vaccine can normally take more than 10 years.
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