COVID-19 - Revision history

AussieTony: Added Spring 2022

2025-05-26T05:54:10Z

Added Spring 2022

AussieTony: /* March */ added commencement cancellation

2025-05-26T05:48:19Z

‎March: added commencement cancellation

Pacman: /* January 2020 to early March */

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‎January 2020 to early March

Pacman at 22:50, 7 May 2024

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Pacman at 22:49, 7 May 2024

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Pacman at 21:55, 7 May 2024

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Pacman at 21:54, 7 May 2024

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Gutenwod: /* Fall 2022 */

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‎Fall 2022

Gutenwod at 23:55, 3 October 2021

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Gutenwod at 23:47, 3 October 2021

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 *Facilities slowly opened up. Libraries were available to students who signed up for 4-hour time slots. [[Dodge Gym]] reopened for use. Undergrad labs once again began hiring undergrad students.
 *During the winter, Columbia set up heated outdoor tents for students to have a safe place to socialize without freezing to death.
 === Fall 2022 ===

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 *After a period of uncertainty, students were told to leave campus, barring special circumstances. This was relatively well-received, compared to peer schools like [[Princeton]].
 *Columbia Housing directed students to two external moving and storage companies. Due to extreme load, this ended up working out badly, and many students were forced to leave their belongings or pay large amounts to ship them to their home addresses.
 === Remainder of Spring 2020 ===

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 === January 2020 to early March ===
 *Concerns building around the pandemic, especially for [[New York City]].
-*Near the end of this period, Columbia administration keeping in eye on the infection rates, peer schools like [[NYU]] and other [[Ivy Leaague|Ivies]], and creating their own University COVID-19 Task Force with infectious disease professors, upper-level administration, and other appointees.
+*Near the end of this period, Columbia administration keeping in eye on the infection rates, peer schools like [[NYU]] and other [[Ivy League|Ivies]], and creating their own University COVID-19 Task Force with infectious disease professors, upper-level administration, and other appointees.
 ===March===

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 The '''COVID-19''' Novel Coronavirus pandemic profoundly changed student life during the [[2019]]-[[2020]] through [[2021]]-[[2022]] school years.
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 === January 2020 to early March ===
-*Concerns building around the pandemic, especially for New York City.
+*Concerns building around the pandemic, especially for [[New York City]].
-*Near the end of this period, Columbia administration keeping in eye on the infection rates, peer schools like NYU and other Ivies, and creating their own University COVID-19 Task Force with infectious disease professors, upper-level administration, and other appointees.
+*Near the end of this period, Columbia administration keeping in eye on the infection rates, peer schools like [[NYU]] and other [[Ivy Leaague|Ivies]], and creating their own University COVID-19 Task Force with infectious disease professors, upper-level administration, and other appointees.
 ===March===

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−	The '''COVID-19''' Novel Coronavirus pandemic ~~has~~ profoundly changed student life ~~for~~ the [[2019]]-[[2020]] ~~and~~ [[~~2020~~]]-[[~~2021~~]] school years.	+	The '''COVID-19''' Novel Coronavirus pandemic profoundly changed student life during the [[2019]]-[[2020]] through [[2021]]-[[2022]] school years.

	== Timeline of Events ==		== Timeline of Events ==

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 ===March===
-*After a period of uncertainty, students were told to leave campus, barring special circumstances. This was relatively well-received, compared to peer schools like Princeton.
+*After a period of uncertainty, students were told to leave campus, barring special circumstances. This was relatively well-received, compared to peer schools like [[Princeton]].
 *Columbia Housing directed students to two external moving and storage companies. Due to extreme load, this ended up working out badly, and many students were forced to leave their belongings or pay large amounts to ship them to their home addresses.
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 *Both Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 were shifted back to letter-grading.
 *Most student concerns centered around too much [[Zoom]] and screen usage, academic honesty, and timezones. Only classes under the Engineering department were required to be recorded and asynchronous.
-*On November 16th, 2020, [[ESC]] announced that they had convinced the Columbia administration to allow SEAS undergrads to take one class P/D/F, regardless of class level or subject, including major requirements. This policy came in stark contrast to the usual SEAS P/D/F policy, which allows students to P/D/F one 3000+ level humanities class per semester. With this new policy, students had a chance to select the P/D/F grading option up until the last day of classes, and after learning their final grade in the class, had the option to uncover the Pass if they chose.
+*On November 16th, 2020, [[ESC]] announced that they had convinced the Columbia administration to allow [[SEAS]] undergrads to take one class P/D/F, regardless of class level or subject, including major requirements. This policy came in stark contrast to the usual SEAS P/D/F policy, which allows students to P/D/F one 3000+ level humanities class per semester. With this new policy, students had a chance to select the P/D/F grading option up until the last day of classes, and after learning their final grade in the class, had the option to uncover the Pass if they chose.
-*Soon after, on November 18th, [[CCSC]] announced the same policy would also apply to CC students. No such policy was extended to GS or Barnard students.
+*Soon after, on [[November 18]], [[CCSC]] announced the same policy would also apply to CC students. No such policy was extended to GS or Barnard students.
 === Spring 2021 ===
 *Despite many high hopes, Columbia did not return to normal in the spring of 2021.
 *CC and SEAS seniors were guaranteed housing, while everyone else got the boot (students with extenuating circumstances had the option to petition for housing, and many received it).
-*Barnard guaranteed housing for seniors and freshmen, while sophomores and juniors got the short end of the stick. As with Columbia, Barnard students could also petition for housing if they had extenuating circumstances, but because of Barnards limited dorm space, very few were accepted.
+*Barnard guaranteed housing for seniors and freshmen, while sophomores and juniors got the short end of the stick. As with Columbia, Barnard students could also petition for housing if they had extenuating circumstances, but because of [[Barnard]]'s limited dorm space, very few were accepted.
 *Despite it's best efforts to de-densify campus, around 70-80% of the undergrad population returned to NYC, scattered across dorms and off-campus apartments in [[Morningside Heights]].
 *To safely allow this much higher volume of students, Columbia developed a rigorous [https://www.wikicu.com/Columbia_testing_program testing program].

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	*After an uptick in cases in mid-September, which the administration blamed on on and off-campus parties, students were banned from inter-dorm travel. About one week later, the ban was amended to allow students to sign in one [[Undergraduate Guest]] to their dorm at a time.		*After an uptick in cases in mid-September, which the administration blamed on on and off-campus parties, students were banned from inter-dorm travel. About one week later, the ban was amended to allow students to sign in one [[Undergraduate Guest]] to their dorm at a time.

−	~~== Virtual Learning ==~~	+	[[Category:History]]
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−	~~== Returning Back to Normal ==~~

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 *All students were welcomed back to campus with vaccine documentation or a really good excuse
 *In-person classes resumed, while restrictions remained for the sizes of other gatherings
-*After an uptick in cases in mid-September, which the administration blamed on on and off-campus parties, students were banned from inter-dorm travel. About one week later, the ban was amended to allow students to sign in one [[undergraduate guest]] to their dorm at a time.
+*After an uptick in cases in mid-September, which the administration blamed on on and off-campus parties, students were banned from inter-dorm travel. About one week later, the ban was amended to allow students to sign in one [[Undergraduate Guest]] to their dorm at a time.
 == Virtual Learning ==
 == Returning Back to Normal ==