LETTER from SAM MORKAL-WILLIAMS
College Campuses Opening Again.
Are We Sure It's A Good Idea?
To the Editor:
This week, Hartwick College began moving students onto campus. SUNY Oneonta will begin the same process on the 22nd.
I am sure that many area residents are wondering the same thing that I am: Why are we opening campuses at all?
Last semester at SUNY Oneonta can be called nothing but a failure, (although the “Retrospective on Fall 2020” on www.oneonta.edu, through a showcase of passive voice and pivoting, says not everything went poorly!)
Hartwick fared much better, but is easier to manage due to a smaller student population that is almost entirely residential. The two schools were just one patch in a diverse quilt of successes and failures in campus management across the country.
Nobody was sure whether to open campuses in the fall as the country braced for an imminent winter of suffering through increased cases and deaths.
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