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We will have some evidence by Labor Day re whether robust entry testing + surveillance testing allows successful reopening. @DukeU @BostonCollege have similar regimes in high spread v low spread community. We see no testing does not work viz @UNC example. https://donaldhtaylorjr.wordpress.com/2020/08/21/college-and-coronavirus/
The @NotreDame example shows that good plan on paper is not enough. The students being 18-22 is baked in. Question is can enough, fast testing & response let you open? More ways for it to go wrong than right https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/education/parties-missteps-and-slow-testing-how-notre-dames-covid-19-plan-unraveled/article_30c4f5a6-e26d-11ea-a12a-af1bffb3d946.html
The @UofAlabama is an interesting case (my youngest child is a sophomore there). They have a quite robust testing approach as well (test before arrival, upon arrival, the surveillance sample testing of students, faculty and staff. Quite a robust effort for a public university
I remember a professor of mine JW Pence who taught me as a frosh in 1986 during a course called The Southern Experience in Rhetoric @UNC saying in class the “reason North Carolina is not Alabama is the University system.” So, our testing failure as compared to @UofAlabama stings
Final note. Professor Pence asked me a the end of the course my first semester as a man “have you ever considered being a Professor?”
I was like “wut?” But it is a reminder what an oppty we faculty have to encourage our students
I was like “wut?” But it is a reminder what an oppty we faculty have to encourage our students
First semester as a freshman
