They are requiring masks, mandating testing and threatening students and campus groups with penalties for partying. Ohio State University said this week that it had suspended 228 students for virus-related violations. “Our challenge is not the students,” Bell said, though he acknowledged that multiple students are facing discipline for breaking coronavirus rules. He said “the ever-increasing number of coronavirus cases on campus will create two major disruptions for Tuscaloosa if left unabated” — stretching the city’s health system and threatening its economy, which includes thousands of university jobs. Gretchen Whitmer (D) urging that she “mandate that classes that don’t require face-to-face teaching as part of their pedagogy … must meet fully online.” The professors are mostly from Grand Valley State University but include faculty from Central Michigan University, Western Michigan University, the University of Michigan at Flint and Northern Michigan University, according to MLive.com.

Source: Washington Post August 25, 2020 19:29 UTC