Harvard University students must complete their coursework online this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, though some will be allowed to live on campus as long as they take COVID-19 tests every three days.
Students will still be charged full tuition rates.
“All course instruction (undergraduate and graduate) for the 2020-21 academic year will be delivered online,” Harvard officials wrote to the campus community. “Students will learn remotely, whether or not they live on campus.”
Harvard in a press release said just 40 percent of undergraduates will be allowed to live on campus – all freshman and some students who face learning challenges from afar – in an effort to stem the spread of coronavirus.
“This will enable first-year students to benefit from a supported transition to college-level academic work and to begin to build their Harvard relationships with faculty and peers,” the officials wrote. “Both online and dorm-based programs will be in place to meet these needs. Over the last few weeks, there has been frequent communication with our first-year students about their transition to Harvard and this will continue as we approach the start of the academic year.”
U.S. universities began shifting to remote learning during the pandemic, and some are planning for another semester with a similar approach, including Yale, University of Southern California and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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