Stanford University’s freshmen and sophomores will not be allowed on campus for the winter quarter, school officials announced a day after they said 43 students on campus had tested positive for COVID-19.
In a message to the Stanford community, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell announced the changes for the quarter that runs Monday to March 19.
“We had hoped to be able to allow half of all undergraduates — that is, the frosh and sophomore classes — to be in person on campus for the winter quarter,” Stanford spokesman E.J. Miranda said Sunday in an email.
The campuswide communique sent Saturday attributed the change to the uptick in state and local COVID-19 cases and Santa Clara County’s extension of stay-at-home restrictions to help slow the recent surge of the novel coronavirus. Stanford had announced last month it planned to have freshmen and sophomores attending in-person classes this quarter but that their arrival would be delayed until Jan. 21-24...
Full story at https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/10/stanford-pulls-plug-on-the-return-of-freshmen-and-sophomores-to-campus/
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