Difference between revisions of "COVID-19"
Intotheblue (talk | contribs) (→Remainder of Spring 2020) |
Intotheblue (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
===March=== | ===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. |
=== Remainder of Spring 2020 === | === Remainder of Spring 2020 === | ||
| − | * Many professors chose to cancel their final exams in favor of projects due to the P/F policy and timezone differences. | + | *The semester moved to P/F (not P/D/F) for both [[SEAS]] and [[CC]] students. |
| + | *Many professors chose to cancel their final exams in favor of projects due to the P/F policy and timezone differences. | ||
=== Fall 2020 === | === Fall 2020 === | ||
| + | *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. | ||
== Virtual Learning == | == Virtual Learning == | ||
== Returning Back to Normal == | == Returning Back to Normal == | ||
Revision as of 16:39, 9 November 2020
The COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus pandemic has profoundly changed student life for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years.
Contents
Timeline of Events
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 Ivies, and creating their own University COVID-19 Task Force with infectious disease professors, upper-level administration, and other appointees.
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.
- 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
- The semester moved to P/F (not P/D/F) for both SEAS and CC students.
- Many professors chose to cancel their final exams in favor of projects due to the P/F policy and timezone differences.
Fall 2020
- 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.
