California State University said almost all classes across its 23 university campuses would be online at least until the end of the fall term
. Programs such as the Maritime Academy, which holds classes aboard a training ship, may be among a handful of exceptions. The Cal State University System serves 482,000 students.
Colleges and universities across the United States are grappling with similar decisions. But it was the timing of Cal State’s announcement that came to some as a surprise. Other colleges and universities have said their decisions would come later in the summer. Efforts to stem the spread of the disease have shut schools and businesses nationwide, severely disrupted travel and devastated the economy. Top U.S. infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that a second wave of infections is a near certainty in the fall, which helped influence Cal State’s decision, according to the chancellor’s statement earlier this week.
“The social aspect is just completely gone, and I do very much miss it,” said Ofer Barr, a 19-year-old mechanical engineering student at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, who has moved back in with his parents in Los Angeles.“Here at home, the only thing I’ve really found that lets me have any kind of social interaction is video games,” Barr said.
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