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Wow! They TESTED AND TRACED. MY HATS OFF TO THEM! The poor lady probably is miserable even there was NO FAULT on per part. She is the pres's wife and took alum and employees to NYC. Talk about the law of unintended consequences running amok.
Does everyone here realize what a TREMENDOUS RESOURCE states are sitting on for fighting this thing with their combined UNIVERSITY systems? Does anyone here think they are being tapped to anywhere near their capacity? Have you even heard anyone talk about it?
Viral outbreak hits nearly empty University of Texas campus: What will happen this fall?
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1 min ago on
May 21, 2020
By Roger Sollenberger, Salon
Eleven custodial workers at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) have tested positive for the coronavirus, the university announced in a post to its website on Tuesday.On the same day, the school announced it would furlough or lay off staff members across several departments in preparation for a dramatically skinnier revenue stream just a few months down the road. Such problems will likely be widespread in higher education, especially at state universities and smaller private colleges.
In a third announcement, on Wednesday, UT joined a number of institutions when it took the unprecedented step of splitting the fall semester in two — the first half in-person, the second remote learning.
On top of it all, the school’s president, Greg Fenves, is leaving next month, handing the keys to Jay Hartzell, an economist and dean of the university’s McComb School of Business. This would be a challenging transition at any time for one of America’s largest schools, let alone in the middle of the most turbulent time for higher ed in the country’s history.
The campus in downtown Austin, typically home to 50,000 students, has been dead quiet since mid-March, when the pandemic forced the school to close classrooms and suspend all non-essential campus activity.
Since the outbreak, university administration has reported four clusters of infections, with the school’s “patient zero” being the president’s wife, who apparently contracted the virus on a group trip to New York with students, alumni and campus employees...
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/vi...y-of-texas-campus-what-will-happen-this-fall/
Does everyone here realize what a TREMENDOUS RESOURCE states are sitting on for fighting this thing with their combined UNIVERSITY systems? Does anyone here think they are being tapped to anywhere near their capacity? Have you even heard anyone talk about it?
Viral outbreak hits nearly empty University of Texas campus: What will happen this fall?
Published
1 min ago on
May 21, 2020
By Roger Sollenberger, Salon
In a third announcement, on Wednesday, UT joined a number of institutions when it took the unprecedented step of splitting the fall semester in two — the first half in-person, the second remote learning.
Since the outbreak, university administration has reported four clusters of infections, with the school’s “patient zero” being the president’s wife, who apparently contracted the virus on a group trip to New York with students, alumni and campus employees...
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/vi...y-of-texas-campus-what-will-happen-this-fall/