Coronavirus college closures leave students unsure about housing
Anthony O?Neil, Christian Cruz and Annie Wang prepare to pack as Harvard University announced it will close down their campus early this semester, asking students to vacate by March 15th over the Coronavirus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | MediaNews Group via Getty Images
As universities go online and dorms shut down, students scramble to find a place to stay After Cornell University announced on Tuesday evening that the school, which has roughly 15,000 undergraduates, would transition to online instruction, and asked students to leave campus after spring break, students were in a state of confusion. ??Frenzy? is probably a good word,? says Manisha Munasinghe, a 26-year old computational biology graduate student.
Campus life across the country is quickly changing due to the coronavirus, which has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, with more than 1,080 confirmed cases in the U.S. As the list of institutions that have canceled in-person classes and moved to online instruction grows ?including Harvard, University of Maryland, and Rice University in Houston?administrators are also closing dorms due to fears of the spreading coronavirus. Housing has suddenly become an immediate concern. What happens to students who depend on the dorms for a place to live" Where will they go if they do not have alternative options at hand, or family support nearby" Harvard alone has roughly 6,700 undergrads, 97 percent of whom live on campus all four year...
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