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Thursday, May 7, 2020

What UCLA is likely to do in the fall

Other campuses have been announcing plans for the fall. It is likely that UCLA's decision will end up as a compilation of what others are already announcing.

Here is UC-San Diego (which, like UCLA, has a medical school) from the LA Times:

UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla said Tuesday the university was going to begin mass testing students for the novel coronavirus as a major step toward resuming on-campus courses in the fall. 
The school’s experimental “Return to Learn” program will begin May 11, when UC San Diego starts giving self-administered tests to 5,000 students who are living in campus housing. If the program works, campus officials plan to test about 65,000 students, faculty and staff on a monthly basis. UC San Diego will become the first campus in the University of California system and one of the first in the U.S. to broadly test students for the coronavirus — an undertaking it is well-suited to do. It operates UC San Diego Health, which includes two major hospitals and many clinics, all of which are tied to one of the largest medical research programs in the U.S... 


Here is UC-Berkeley from the San Francisco Chronicle:

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ expects the school to adopt a “hybrid plan” for the fall semester, with some classes in person and others online. Christ, speaking Tuesday during an online panel discussion with other campus leaders, made her most extensive public comments about Cal’s plans for the fall. She said the school will make a final decision by mid-June and intends to have “a semester in the cloud for students who cannot come to campus.” Instruction for the fall semester is scheduled to begin Aug. 26...

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