With COVID-19 cases surging just as students are about to return from winter break, dozens of U.S. colleges are moving classes online again for at least the first week or so of the semester — and some warn it could stretch longer if the wave of infection doesn’t subside soon.
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- The University of Chicago is delaying its new term and holding the first two weeks online.
- The University of Chicago is delaying its new term and holding the first two weeks online.
- Some others are inviting students back to campus but starting classes online, including Michigan State University.
- At the University of California, Riverside, students can return on Monday but face two weeks of online classes.
- The 50,000-student campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign plans to resume in-person classes after one week of online instruction.