A week into the fall semester, the University of Notre Dame announced on Tuesday that it would move to online instruction for at least the next two weeks in an attempt to control a growing coronavirus outbreak, and could move to shut down campus entirely. “If these steps are not successful, we will have to send students home, as we did last spring,” Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill moved all of its undergraduate classes online, also a week into the fall semester. And Michigan State on Tuesday shifted its reopening plans, telling students not to return for the start of classes in two weeks. At Notre Dame’s campus near South Bend, Ind., 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students were tested before they could return to campus on Aug. 3 to start classes a week later.

Source: New York Times August 18, 2020 21:32 UTC