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Harvard doesn't rule out closing campus until 2021
Campus Reform ^ | 15 April 20 | Eduardo Neret

Posted on 04/16/2020 7:07:38 AM PDT by Bruiser 10

Harvard University is not ruling out the possibility that it might not open its campus again to students until 2021.

The announcement comes as Harvard researchers have said that social distancing measures may be necessary until 2022.

"We are analyzing multiple scenarios, but, in the end, we will be guided by public health considerations—just as we were in deciding on March 10 to send students home and then to implement plans for remote work"

In a message to students on Monday, Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow wrote, "Many of you are concerned about plans for the fall. We are analyzing multiple scenarios, but, in the end, we will be guided by public health considerations—just as we were in deciding on March 10 to send students home and then to implement plans for remote work."

With Harvard's summer courses now entirely online, Bacow says the university is now "focused on the fall" and determining the latest possible date by which a decision on fall courses will need to be made even amid a "tremendous amount of uncertainty," the Harvard Crimson reported

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


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KEYWORDS: 4dchess; disease; education; harvard; shutdown
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Please, Dear God! Let it be!!!!!!!!!!!
1 posted on 04/16/2020 7:07:38 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
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I think 2025 sounds better. Don’t want to take any chances.


2 posted on 04/16/2020 7:09:22 AM PDT by albie
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Just in time for the 2021 flu season!!!


3 posted on 04/16/2020 7:09:50 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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IF they’d permanently shutdown, along with a bunch of the rest of their communist ilk, it would be a blessing to the rest of America.


4 posted on 04/16/2020 7:11:13 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: Bruiser 10

Finally some good news.


5 posted on 04/16/2020 7:11:14 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: Bruiser 10
I'm telling you

4D chess

6 posted on 04/16/2020 7:11:24 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: albie

Im the meantime how about Harvard pay some property taxes to the state. It would be in the billions! Massachusetts could use it.


7 posted on 04/16/2020 7:11:42 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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Lol

I will work out great if liberal institutions shut down for a year-and-a-half and conservative ones open up now


8 posted on 04/16/2020 7:11:50 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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9 posted on 04/16/2020 7:12:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The smart schools are getting set up to do on line classes in the fall


10 posted on 04/16/2020 7:14:37 AM PDT by stanne
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As long as they include Harvard online with that, it sounds good. Less polluted minds.


11 posted on 04/16/2020 7:16:17 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Under construction)
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-—— “I think 2025 sounds better. Don’t want to take any chances.” -——

EXACTLY! “Why, if it even saved JUST ONE LIFE, it’s worth it!”


12 posted on 04/16/2020 7:16:18 AM PDT by oldplayer
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The smart schools are getting set up to do on line classes in the fall

I guarantee, the Power 5 football conferences will call the students (and alumni) back in time for football season.
13 posted on 04/16/2020 7:18:09 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Under construction)
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“We can do bloody well without you.”

Eliza Doolittle


14 posted on 04/16/2020 7:18:24 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Fight Fiercely, Harvard!


15 posted on 04/16/2020 7:18:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Old Yeller

The smart schools.


16 posted on 04/16/2020 7:19:28 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Bruiser 10

So there is a bright side to this thing.

L


17 posted on 04/16/2020 7:20:37 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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The smart schools.

Liberty and Hillsdale College. Who else?
18 posted on 04/16/2020 7:20:52 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Under construction)
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My spirits are uplifted by this unexpected piece of good news. ;)


19 posted on 04/16/2020 7:21:33 AM PDT by Starboard
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not sure why’d they bother to reopen after that.

I’ve little question that 60% of colleges/universities could do it all on line with considerable savings to their clients


20 posted on 04/16/2020 7:21:55 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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