List of Colleges officially online for Fall 2020

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It's very disturbing to hear of so many schools opening and then shutting down within a couple of weeks.  They're incubating hundreds of cases and then sending them back to their homes all over the country.  It's almost as if they're trying to maximize the problem.

"It's not our fault."

My university has informed us that more quarantine space may be needed to comply with latest guidance that universities should not send infected students home since that increases spread. They're working on additional quarantine space, although our infection numbers are relatively low. Of course, we're mostly testing on voluntary basis, so we may have ten people infected for every positive test.

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Cal State will be online for the spring semester.

[Hibush]

My university has informed us that more quarantine space may be needed to comply with latest guidance that universities should not send infected students home since that increases spread. They're working on additional quarantine space, although our infection numbers are relatively low. Of course, we're mostly testing on voluntary basis, so we may have ten people infected for every positive test.

If the trigger for going fully online is set at a specific number of weekly new infections, say 100 as it is in New York, then it makes a big difference whether you have a campus of 1,000 or 40,000 and whether you are doing surveillance testing of everyone or symptomatic testing. Frequent surveillance testing appears to be crucial for reducing spread, but it is also the way to hit the threshold fastest for a given level of infection.

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Providence College shuts down on-campus instruction until at least September 26:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/18/metro/ri-health-officials-swoop-into-providence-neighborhood-where-124-students-now-have-covid-19/.

[jimbogumbo]

University of Colorado Boulder for two weeks: https://www.cpr.org/2020/09/21/cu-boulder-moves-to-2-weeks-of-remote-instruction-to-squelch-rise-in-coronavirus-cases/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=alert20200921

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Providence College shuts down on-campus instruction until at least September 26:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/18/metro/ri-health-officials-swoop-into-providence-neighborhood-where-124-students-now-have-covid-19/.

Stay at home order and online instruction has been extended for at least another week at Providence College:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/25/metro/amid-outbreak-providence-college-will-stick-with-remote-instruction-another-week/.

Colorado State U. has 900 students in quarantine because of waste-water levels of coronavirus:

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/25/csu-quarantine-covid-wastewater-testing/.