These are some of the scenarios that might play out this fall, as colleges across the country brainstorm ways to limit contact among students and faculty and staff members amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The decision facing so many students has been complicated by coronavirus, as the fate of shuttered campuses looms in the wake of COVID-19.Delaying the start of the semester. Alternating blocks of students in lecture halls. One course for weeks at a time.
With the start of the fall semester several months away, schools are planning for many different scenarios. "I think everyone's really waiting on this week-by-week, day-by-day type of information on the big questions -- antibody testing and convalescent therapy," Tom Green, associate executive director of consulting and SEM for American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, told ABC News.As a result, new students are equally unmoored. By this time of year, many incoming college freshmen have decided where they're going to school in the fall.
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