精品成人福利在线 is staying the course for spring 2021, inviting students back to live and learn on campus and continuing to balance on-campus and remote work and study when classes begin on February 8.<\/p>\n
While looking back at lessons learned this past fall, five 精品成人福利在线 faculty and students who shared how they are navigating this unprecedented academic year are also looking ahead to how those experiences of teaching and learning remotely and in-person \u2013 or a combination of the two \u2013 will guide them this spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn’t make sense to pretend these are not extraordinary circumstances,\u201d says Mark Clatterbuck, acting chairperson for Religion.<\/p>\n
The spring semester will see more frequent COVID-19 testing for students, staff and faculty in high-contact programs like athletics, the arts, and in residence halls and will continue to expand the coronavirus-combatting protocols \u2013 the daily\u00a0Hawk Check<\/a>\u00a0health assessments, contact tracing, social distancing and mask wearing \u2013 put in place with the University\u2019s restart plan<\/a>. In addition, any student, faculty or staff member can get a free COVI9-test on campus this spring if they need one.<\/p>\n There are signs in New Jersey that the virus\u2019 winter peak will be on the decline when classes resume in February. There\u2019s also hope that the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine will soon become more accessible to faculty, staff and students. And the 3,000 students expected to live in the residence halls are encouraged to stay on campus, except for work responsibilities, once they arrive, in order to minimize the risk of bringing the virus back with them.<\/p>\n \u201cI hear that students are nervous about coming on campus. I think that\u2019s good. That\u2019s smart. That means you\u2019re not taking the virus lightly,\u201d says Emily J. Isaacs, executive director of the Office for Faculty Advancement. And there is no evidence from the fall term that there was any spread of COVID from a classroom setting. Contact tracing conducted by the University suggests that most of the cases on-campus stemmed from infections acquired off-campus \u2013 a key reason for residential students to remain on campus as much as possible.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel that the University had planned well enough to make it safe for us to be here,\u201d says Biology Professor Sandra Adams.<\/p>\nTake a look inside Biology\u00a0Professor Sandra Adams’ molecular biology lab.<\/h3>\n