TALLAHASSEE – State university system Chancellor Marshall Criser next week will present guidelines for reopening university campuses in the fall, after students were sent home in March to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Criser is slated to offer the guidelines during a May 28 meeting of the university system’s Board of Governors, the system announced Monday.
Along with students, parents, faculty members and administrators facing uncertainty, decisions about fall semester also will have major financial implications for universities.
In the announcement Monday, the university system said the task force working on the issues “has recognized that each university has a dedicated mission with unique strengths and characteristics, as well as an extraordinary environment that includes densely populated urban areas, more rural settings and students from all regions of the state, the nation, and the world.”
Last week, the California State University system, which includes 23 campuses, said it primarily plans to use distance learning during the fall, with limited exceptions for such things as clinical classes for nursing students and laboratory classes for certain science students.
