Across the country, dorms are emptying.
Even campuses that don’t have active cases of the virus shut down their in-person offerings as the virus spreads rapidly across the country.
Colleges had already made an effort to limit the spread of the virus through bans on international travel, which included manyThey're taking more extreme steps as students leave for spring break or return from it. Administrators have said they feared students might return with the virus after traveling.A month ago, the current flurry of activity on Harvard University's campus didn’t seem possible to freshman Jaxson Hill, 18.
Lisa Mittleman lives in California, but her son attends the University of Washington. That university, located in Seattle, an area hard hit by the virus, was the first to shift all its courses online until the end of the winter quarter in a couple of weeks. What many universities will be offering may be Band-Aid solutions, but that's better than nothing, said Matthew Rascoff, who leads digital education and innovation at Duke University.
Faculty have been able to use technology like Zoom, a tool that provides video conferencing, to continue classes. Professors can use polls, for example, to engage students in real-time as though it was a classroom, Rascoff said.
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