Schools have set up isolation rooms, testing regiments and move-in rules for the spring semester.
to live in dorms and attend in-person classes. And various schools have opened free vaccine and test clinics to make it easy for returning students to access resources.
Georgian Court University, which enrolls over 2,000 students, will have approximately 315 students returning to four residence halls this spring. Jennings said the school has enough room, including multi-person suites and individual rooms, to isolate 25 students if necessary. “Professors are prepared to shift the entire class into a ‘high flex mood’ for everyone . So that is something that professors are also prepared and able to do,” he said.Georgian Court University, for example, expects to have over 100 vacant rooms.
The College of New Jersey also took a residence hall offline “for the purposes of isolation and quarantine needs,” a school spokesman said. “Especially for the next two weeks, as the residence halls open up and they arrive, they can come get their vaccine here. We have about 500 appointments a day that are for that specific group and they’re filling up fairly quickly,” said Barta.
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