With Tests, Mandatory Masks,
SUNY Takes Aim At C-19
Professors Deny They Were
Pressured To Return To Classroom
By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
They’re back!
Monday, Feb. 1, SUNY Oneonta students began in-person, mask-to-mask learning following the start of the virtual spring semester one week prior.
Last fall, the campus made national news for its more than 700-student outbreak that happened almost immediately after undergraduates returned in August.’
With comprehensive testing, mandatory masks and a new campus president, Dennis Craig, with a track record of halting COVID-19 at SUNY Purchase, the hope is things will go much better.
“Of the 64 SUNY schools, 61 did not test students for the virus as they came back to campus,” Assistant Director of Business Services Graig Eichler said.
Not testing is not a good idea, this campus has learned, Eichler said, and a full testing regimen is being applied this semester.
So far, 99.22 percent of tests have been negative, he said.
