85% of surveyed college students believe they are likely or very likely to be exposed to the coronavirus on campus.
More than one in five college undergraduates don’t plan to enroll this fall, according to a new College Reaction/Axios poll of about 800 students taken Aug. 16-17. And 85% of those surveyed believe they are likely or very likely to be exposed to the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 if they are on campus.
The schools that are reopening their campuses have been strategizing how to bring students back safely since the spring, cobbling together heightened sanitation measures, mask mandates, smaller class sizes, limiting the number of students living on campus, and rolling out hybrid curricula mixing in-person and online learning sessions.
Still, the majority are on board with being on campus. This aligns with a previous College Reaction/Axios poll published last month, which found that 76% of surveyed students planned to go to campus if their schools gave them the option, and 66% said they would attend in-person classes if those were on the table. Most were willing to wear face masks and download an app to conduct contact tracing — and 79% said that they wouldn’t attend parties the way they did before the pandemic.
Several University of Connecticut students have been evicted from campus housing after a viral video showed the young men and women partying in a packed dorm room without wearing masks.
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