USC puts summer classes online to keep students from returning amid coronavirus outbreak
COLUMBIA — In-person classes will not resume at South Carolina’s largest college until the fall semester in an effort to avoid spreading coronavirus across campus and the state’s capital city.
The University of South Carolina will hold summer classes online because the COVID-19 outbreak is not expected to peak until May, shortly before those courses begin, school President Bob Caslen said.
“Our top priority remains your health, safety and wellbeing,” Caslen wrote Thursday. “It was clear that allowing students, faculty, staff and visitors to return to campus this summer could be dangerous.
“We feel the risk of communal infection to the campus and the surrounding community in this closed-campus environment is still unacceptable.”
College of Charleston, the state’s third-largest university, also will hold summer classes online.
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