According a research project at Davidson College, as of 17 August more than 1,100 four-year colleges and universities were bringing students back to campus in some form with almost 600 of those “primarily in person.” Less than 100 were “fully in person.” Almost 800 reported being “primarily online.”
Nature calls this a “vast unplanned pandemic experiment.”
This non-exhaustive list hints at the next month:
Colorado
- Colorado College: 155 students in one dorm in quarantine after one student tested positive and then students did not follow “enhanced social distancing protocols”
Connecticut
- University of Connecticut: seven students test positive; students began returning to campus on Friday
Florida
- University of Central Florida: at least 540 cases of students, faculty and staff have tested positive during staged move-in
Georgia
- Georgia College: 75 students and staff; the college is among the first of the state’s institutions to open
Indiana
- University of Notre Dame – classes suspended eight days after fall term began; 146 students and a staff member test positive.
Iowa
- Iowa State University: 175 students tested positive as part of the university’s move-in process
Kansas
- Bethel College: 482 people have been tested in the county; 50 from Bethel College are positive, including 43 students; 22 student-athletes; and seven faculty members. That’s almost 10% of the student body.
Massachusetts
- Boston University: 12 positive cases and 111 inconclusive since 27 July (on-campus testing only)
- Emerson College: one person has tested positive
Mississippi
- Northeast Mississippi Community College: last week, about 10% of the campus body (~300 students) was in quarantine
Missouri
- St. Louis University: 22 students tested positive during move-in week; SLU has set aside 150 beds for isolation and quarantine housing
Kentucky
- University of Kentucky: 189 infections as of 15 August (on-campus testing only)
- Western Kentucky University: 19 infections for student and staff, 14% positivity rate (07-13 August)
North Carolina
- East Carolina University: classes still face-to-face with 108 positive tests and a 7.4% positivity rate
- North Carolina State University: a cluster in an off-campus house where a party had been held earlier in August
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: suspends classes after 135 cases within first week of opening for fall term
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State University: 23 infections lead entire sorority to be quarantined
Tennessee
- The University of Tennessee at Knoxville: 75 active cases of COVID-19 and 270 people in self-isolation on Tuesday; host a party and you could be expelled
Wyoming
- University of Wyoming: 38 active cases among students and staff
