I'm A University Of Illinois Student And I Think My University Has A Shot This Semester
Thank you, UIUC, for keeping your students and staff safe.
It has been a common trend for students to place bets on how long they believe it will take for schools to make the decision to pull the plug on living on campus due to high numbers of positive COVID-19 tests on campus. Two weeks? A month? Every school is handling the pandemic differently but at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I could not be more impressed with how our leadership has followed science, established strict rules, and how our professors have worked hard to create a saliva-based coronavirus test.
I believe my Big Ten school of 50,000 total students (about 40,000 students on campus this semester) can make it. Why? All students, staff, and faculty members are required to…