UNC Experience Should Be A Lesson To Other Universities, Says Faculty Chair
UNC-Chapel Hill had to cancel in-person classes after a surge in coronavirus cases. Mimi Chapman tells NPR that "should give every other large public university in the country pause."
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made it one week into the fall semester before scrapping plans for in-person instruction.
It's an experience that other large campuses should learn from, Mimi Chapman, chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, told NPR's All Things Considered on Tuesday.
During that first week, 130 students and five employees tested positive for the coronavirus, with the positivity rate on campus surging from just under 3% to nearly 14%. Hundreds of students are in isolation and quarantine, administrators said Monday.
Members of the university community had raised concerns earlier this summer about returning to in-person learning and the school begin the semester with five weeks entirely of online learning.
