University administrators are desperately trying to avoid the pitfalls of last year, when outbreaks at some campuses spread the virus into the surrounding communities. And teachers cannot ask students who have Covid-like symptoms to leave the classroom. Professors are told they can tell students that they are “strongly encouraged” or “expected” to put on masks, but cannot force students to do so. It was impossible to tell who was vaccinated and who was not, resulting in what he called “an emotional hellscape.”Īt some campuses, particularly in Republican-led states with high rates of contagion - like the state systems in Georgia, Texas and Florida - vaccination is optional and mask wearing, while recommended, cannot be enforced. So he was stunned in late August when more than two-thirds of the first-year students in his writing class did not take the hint, and showed up unmasked. has recommended face coverings, regardless of vaccine status, for indoor public spaces in areas where the rate of infection is high.īut this is not how it has worked out on more than a few campuses, reports my colleague Anemona Hartocollis, who covers higher education. The American College Health Association has recommended vaccination requirements for all on-campus higher education students for the fall semester. The highly contagious Delta variant is pushing cases skyward while the polarized debate around vaccines and masks has complicated campus discussions about virus safety.
In-person classes are returning to almost every university in the United States after more than a year of crisis and chaos - and at a particularly fraught moment.
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