As Michigan State University plans to welcome students back to campus in September, school officials are busy developing precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, President Samuel Stanley…
As Michigan State University plans to welcome students back to campus in September, school officials are busy developing precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, President Samuel Stanley said during a virtual panel discussion Wednesday.
“Our goal has to be to focus on health and safety,” said Stanley, a former infectious disease professor. “We’re working hard to make the best evidence-based decisions.”
Under MSU’s reopening plans, announced in late May, classes will begin Sept. 2 and will include in-person and online components. In-person instruction will end Nov. 25, before Thanksgiving, with the remainder of the semester conducted virtually.
In addition to Stanley, the other panel members included Robert Jones, chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jo Ann Rooney, president of Loyola University in Chicago, and Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
