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Have any universities discussed plans for next fall?

Brian Leiter

I broached this topic a couple of weeks ago, but I'm wondering whether any readers have heard about any contingency plans or discussions at their institutions related to the question of, "What happens in the fall?"   No need to use your name, but please include a valid e-mail address in case I need to follow up with questions (your e-mail and identity will not be disclosed).

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3 responses to “Have any universities discussed plans for next fall?”

  1. Jason Brennan

    At Georgetown, at least in the business school, we've been told to start planning for running virtual in the fall. We are probably going to push our MBA introductory late summer session back, condense it, and move some of it to the fall. We created a task force to help improve online pedagogy. We aren't as of now expecting to be virtual in the fall, but we are planning for it so that it does happen, we can do it better.

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  2. Anonymous in Quarantine

    At my university the president has said he wants 25% more online classes offered next fall, since he presumes that students will want to remain online either because of concerns about social distancing or because they will have enjoyed the emergency online classes they're taking this semester. We all need to be concerned, I think, about the possibility of universities using this emergency to move much more into online instruction because we "already developed the online class." Our faculty senate is drafting a letter right now saying that the university should refer to this current semester's classes as "emergency remote instruction" rather than online, for whatever that's worth.

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  3. Anonymous

    Online course section offerings for the fall have been increased by about 50% and initiatives for improving faculty competence with online delivery have been made a priority.
    A peer at another institution reports talk of school beginning 2-3 weeks early in the fall, presumably to allow an extra cushion for getting courses done before cold and flu season sets in as well as other contingencies that could arise.

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