The University of Arizona will have half of its "normal" number students on campus this fall. | Pixabay
The University of Arizona will have half of its "normal" number students on campus this fall. | Pixabay
The University of Arizona recently laid out its fall reopening plans which includes four staggered formats and having about half the number of students on its campus as opposed to a "normal" semester.
The fall semester formats will include in-person classes with "enhanced protections," flex in-person classes with a mix of in-person and online instruction, live online classes and iCourses which are done at a student's own pace, according to a July 30 article posted on the university's website. The result will be having about 25,000 to 30,000 students on campus for the fall semester, which is half of their usual semester amount.
"This all depends on the public health conditions and whether students, faculty and staff follow good public health measures to minimize transmission of this virus," University of Arizona president Robert Robbins said in a statement.
The plan includes lab courses and fine/performing arts to be the first in-person courses on campus with about 5,000 students expected, according to the article. That will be followed by bringing in-person and flex in-person classes of no more than 30 students to campus and by Tuesday, Sept. 8, "larger in-person" and flex in-person classes will be on campus, according to the article.
"I want to emphasize that we aren't forcing anyone to come back on campus," Robbins stated in the article. "If you choose to do it, we welcome you, and these are the guidelines that we'll use going forward."
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