Update About NC State Fall Planning and Town Halls 

Full transparency: 1. Bringing students back, even if it's for 3 months and with masks and social distancing, is jeopardizing our wellbeing in the name of profit. "But even with online classes only, you still pay full tuition, so what difference does it make in profit?" Students who have nowhere to live but in dorms and university apartments will have to pay for them. 2. On that same track, there is no justification for students to have to pay full tuition for half the quality of instruction. It wasn't justifiable last semester while all classes were online that tuition wasn't adjusted and nobody got refunds with the exception of housing fees, it's not justifiable now that our typically 5.5 month semester is being squeezed into 3 months without any breaks, and with many classes still being online. What is the purpose of going to all the hassle of figuring out which classes to cancel or make remote, how to enforce social distancing and mask-wearing, how to squeeze 5.5-month curricula into 3 months, when it would be significantly easier AND SAFER to keep classes online? Because you want every student to get the "college experience?" Since when and through what logic is the "college experience" more important than the wellbeing of 36,000 students? If anything, this decision will prolong the duration of quarantine and PREVENT students from having a normal college experience for longer, especially with NC's rates of infection rising constantly. The fact alone that you are choosing to open for any amount of time whatsoever in the middle of a global pandemic is irresponsible enough, but the fact that you, like all of us, are watching reports of rising infection rates and don't seem to be reconsidering the choice is even more irresponsible yet. All I'm reading out of this semester plan is that you value profit over your students not spreading and being infected by a deadly virus. Figure it out. For real.

There is no way you can bring 36000 students back from around the world and expect them to live in dorms, go to the gym together, attend class without a single person getting th virus.

We have the best Chancellor! He is always so supportive, positive, and upbeat! Go PACK!

Housing on or off campus is a huge question and expense, especially since you don't have enough housing for jr's and seniors. This far along they need more flexibility in housing than a 1 year lease as they have internships and (not this year but some years) learning abroad. You need to do a better job planning for this population. So if school is Aug - Nov and then the kids don't come back in Jan...another lease to pay for parents that is unused. Had that this year lease Midmarch - July, not used, no internships available as planned.

I support the pack returning to campus.

Harambe says this is not very pog.

Not for the safety of the students... COVID-19 in particular doesn't severely affect young people in general (not including those with immunodeficiency disorders ) death rate is literally less than 1% from people from their 20s to early 50s. Why subject mandatory regulations when the majority wouldn't even experience severe hospitalization? Those who are specifically at risk should be the focus.