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How Should Colleges Reopen? There’s No Easy Answer
Time is running out — and Covid-19 cases are on the rise — as educators struggle to determine their plans for the fall semester.
Colleges could be lonely places this fall.
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How parents and students feel about the fast-approaching specter of college reopenings this fall has been debated — perhaps exhaustively — in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic. Can we do it safely? Should we send them back at all? Will young adults wear masks and abide by social-distancing guidelines? To get a better sense of the other side of the equation, we asked Bloomberg Opinion contributors who are also educators for their views on getting back in the classroom, whether physical or virtual.
Andrea Gabor, Baruch College