Protecting students when campus reopens in the fall

In a few months the Loyola University of Maryland campus will come alive again.

Life on campus will be very different than what the students left.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CAMPUSWILL COME ALIVE AGAIN.

LIFE ONCAMPUS WILL BE VERY DIFFERENTTHAN WHAT STUDENTS LEFT.

WMAR2NEWSTHE EMPTY CAMPUS AND TALKED TOTHE PRESIDENT ABOUT WHATTHEY'RE EXPECTING FOR THE FALLSEMESTER.Eddie live 16:44:3━16:44:44“Last week was senior weekwhich means this entire campuswould have been filled withstudents.

Having a bbq,throwing the frisbee around.Now because of Coronavirusi” BrianLinnane, S.J.

President OfUniversity of Loyola Maryland15:49:2━15:49:35“ I thinkthe parents understand hmuch these students miss thisand want them to be back hereas long as we are doingeverything humanly possible tokeep them safe” Around 4000undergrads are enrolled atLoyola of Marylancampus a year.15:41:5━15:42:04“About amonth ago 15% of college agestudents said they werengoing to come to college andnow its 2%.

Certainly for ourupper class students in thesophomore, junior, senior yearthey realize what they aremissing” The Spring Semestercontinued virtually aftercovi━19 concerns shut downthe campus.

Everybody wants tget back to i━personlearning.

15:42:2━15:42:33“Ibelieve the sustainedinteraction of an academicommunity over 4 years reallymakes the Loyola difference.Folks develop intellectuallyand personally in ways youca” Thepresident says operation,academic, and Medicacommittees are meeting almostdaily to figure out how itwill work The plan is a movingtarget.

They donincreasing food or housingcosts.

15:44:0━15:44:22“Willwe put one student into aroom?

How will we handdining?

Right now you can showup whenever you want, maybe wewill have to schedule it.Students have a slot between4:3━5:15 5:15 and 5:30 thatkind of thing” Students wouldbe broken up into groups often or less with a camerathe professor in the clas━rotating groups online and inperson.

JP Krahel AssociateProfessor of Accounting16:09:3━16:09:46“the ideathat some students canto campus so wehave to accommodate a widervariety of needs here nextsemester than we ever havebefore” Accounting ProfessorJP Krahel hopes the newprotocols give students alif━lesson on how to handlecrisis situations.16:08:4━16;09;07“Right nowin all honesty there should bepeople behind me.

Therenobody and thatWe have really been trying tomaintain the connection.Students come to Loyolabecause they like theconnection.

I work at Loyolabecause I like the connection.To miss the that kind of eyeto eye sort of thing hurts”They are working to get enoughtests to check students whenthey come back and twice amonth after that.15:47:1━15:47:32“We willalso have a quarantine space.The question is if somebodygets the virus what do we do?Our thought is it probablyisnto travel to their home andthat we should take care ofthem” A calming quiet on acampus eager to get back tobuzz of busy students.

AtLoyola of Maryland inBaltimore Eddie Kadhim WMAR2News.THE DEADLINE TO DECLARE WAMOVED TO JUNE 1ST WITH AROUNDNINE HUNDRED OF THE 12 HUNDREDAVAILABLE SPOTS FILLED SO FAR.THE PLAN IS TO REOPEN THE FALLSEMESTER AUGUST 31ST.Her