The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/remote-learning/)
Cornell settled an April 2020 class-action lawsuit by agreeing to pay $3 million towards a compensation fund for students impacted by online classes in the Spring 2020 semester.
Students and faculty reflect on their Cornell experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic after three years when the University shifted to fully online learning.
After a special meeting on Sept. 9, the Faculty Senate passed two resolutions that grant instructors control over classroom modality and demand more transparent University policies.
After gap semesters and gap years, hundreds of undergraduates — including 120 first-years — have returned to Ithaca and are readaptingto in-person classes
As a year passes since Cornell closed campus, students share their challenging and new experiences with remote learning.
Students who stayed home dive into their experience, noting the difficulties a remote semester has brought them so far.
At the beginning of the semester every professor had to weigh the educational benefits of teaching in person against the potential health risks of reporting to campus — with some finding it necessary to connect face to face with their students, while others opting for the safer route of teaching via Zoom. In the end, the majority of classes ended up being virtual — with over two thirds of classes being entirely remote.
From Okenshields to Temple of Zeus, a semester with mostly online classes has made central campus feel noticeably emptier.
As STEM majors prepare for the fall semester in just a couple months, many wonder how their lab classes will adjust. Professors are now making contingency plans as they await President Martha E. Pollack’s announcement on the fall semester.
The era of Zoom may soon be drawing to a close for some Ithaca students. According to Ithaca College President Shirley Collado, in-person instruction is set to resume on Oct. 5, about a month later than previously scheduled.