More Rain on the Parade for Reopening

As we noted on this blog, CSU is going all online in the fall. Now its chancellor raises the possibility that the entire 2020-21 year at CSU will be online:

From EdSource:

Nearly all of California State University’s classes may remain virtual, not only this fall but for the rest of the upcoming academic year. CSU Chancellor Tim White, during a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on the pandemic and the future of higher education, said the decision in May to primarily move to a virtual setting for the fall term and “quite frankly the academic year was driven by health and safety issues and student progress.”

“A lot of people are using the past tense, ‘How did you manage the pandemic?'” he said, during his testimony. “This is not a two-month problem or a six-month problem. This is a 12-, 18-, 24-month, at a minimum problem.”

White, who has announced plans to leave his post by December, did not specify how the pandemic may affect colleges in the long-term. However, he said health officials are projecting a bump in infections this summer and later this year...

Full story at https://edsource.org/2020/csu-chancellor-says-system-could-go-virtual-for-entire-academic-year/635396