As some campuses plan to cancel in-person classes through the fall, University of Notre Dame students will return two weeks earlier than originally scheduled. The school will also skip fall break and end the fall semester before Thanksgiving, it announced.
Notre Dame plans to bring students back on August 10, two weeks earlier than originally scheduled, said the university's president, the Rev. John Jenkins.The school near South Bend, Indiana, will also skip fall break and end the fall semester before Thanksgiving, it announced Monday. Health officials say the US could see a second wave of coronavirus infections in the fall.
"Bringing our students back is in effect assembling a small city of people from many parts of the nation and the world, who may bring with them pathogens to which they have been exposed," Jenkins wrote in a letter to the campus community. "We recognize the challenge, but we believe it is one we can meet."HBCUs doubly hurt by campus shutdowns in coronavirus pandemicNotre Dame said it will enhance cleaning measures.
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