The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/campus-reopening/)
After gap semesters and gap years, hundreds of undergraduates — including 120 first-years — have returned to Ithaca and are readaptingto in-person classes
With a fully in-person semester days away, here are the latest surveillance testing, masking and vaccination policies going into effect this fall.
President Pollack’s latest announcement allows for student clubs and organizations to hold gatherings of less than 10 people.
While Cornell entered its spring semester with the experience of a fall semester that saw fewer COVID-19 cases than expected, 2021 may be off to a more tumultuous start.
In June, Cornell modeled for a potential campus reopening, when cases nation wide seemed to have plateaued nationally. But since then, the U.S. has seen almost 3 million more COVID-19 cases and 60,000 deaths. How is that model faring days before classes start?
Cornell recently committed to considering a shutdown if campus reached 250 cases in a week, but a recent decision by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) may not make that feasible.
Cornell finds itself on an ever-shrinking list of colleges persisting with plans to conduct a hybrid semester, with both the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University retreating from such decisions on Tuesday.
In an effort to frequently test students in the fall, Cornell will repurpose part of a center in the College of Veterinary Medicine into a COVID-19 testing lab.
A recent addendum to the contentious reopening model reaffirmed Cornell’s decision to proceed with a hybrid model as Ithaca saw a significant spike in COVID-19 cases attributed to a party.
ICE issued new guidance for new international students, clarifying decisions made earlier in July.