Quarantines, Covid Tests, and Synchronous Learning
Dear friends and family, I owe you all an apology - It has been much longer that I had hoped since I last wrote. I have been pondering for weeks what I should write. Since Christmas, our students have experienced four different types of learning environments. They started in January by attending classes virtually from their dorms. A 10 day quarantine to ensure no one had Covid-19 turned into three weeks of isolation because the number of infected cases in our state were so high. They then transitioned to attending classes virtually, but this time on campus. If you had walked onto our campus at that time, you would have seen that each dorm had an assigned zone where the students could spread out, attend classes, and work on homework. This was not an ideal situation, but it worked for a time. For about one month, our students were able to attend classes in person. As our student body returned to campus, the reunions were emotional to watch. Many had not seen each other in person since