Campus Life in the Fall? A Test With No Clear Answer
Campus Life in the Fall? A Test With No Clear Answer
Details on what we pointed out in past few weeks. Testing is going to be a huge challenge, and probably impossible for large universities in cities.
"Testing all of those students regularly, as Mr. Khosla hopes to do at U.C. San Diego, would be cost prohibitive — about $25 million a week, Timothy P. White, the system’s chancellor, told the Cal State board of trustees on Tuesday.
Not that it will be cheap at U.C. San Diego. Mr. Khosla said it would cost about $500,000 to test about 5,000 mostly graduate students once a month during the summer pilot program. But it could cost “north of $2 million a month” for the whole campus starting in the fall."
The Class Divide: Remote Learning at 2 Schools, Private and Public
The School Year Really Ended in March
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
What role did closing campuses play in the spread? Did sending students home in March spread the virus throughout the country? New York and Boston have hundreds of thousands of students - where did they all go?