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Sunday, August 30, 2020

Stanford closing most of its campus to the public

Stanford closing most of its campus to the public as a coronavirus precaution

The university has created safe zones for researchers and students to work during the duration of the pandemic

Mercury News

...The zones and restrictions align with the California Department of Public Health’s guidelines on universities reopening, officials said. The guidelines require universities and colleges to “limit, to the greatest extent permitted by law, external community members from entering the site and using campus resources, as the number of additional people onsite and/or intermixing with students, faculty and staff increases the risk of virus transmission.”...

Full story: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/29/stanford-closing-most-of-its-campus-to-the-public/

As we have noted in the past, UCLA's campus is currently being used as a public park. It isn't clear that as a public university, UCLA can do what Stanford is doing.

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