Faculty asked to quickly adapt to online teaching to mitigate spread of coronavirus
Universities across the country are suspending lectures in response to the spread of COVID-19, including Queen's University in Kingston, pictured here in this file photo from Sept., 6, 2013.Universities across the country announced they would be cancelling in-person classes, moving lectures online and banning large gatherings to encourage social distancing in response to the spread of COVID-19.
“Our goal is to help interrupt the chain of transmission in the wider community, thereby protecting vulnerable individuals and ensuring that our health-care system will not become overburdened,” University of Toronto president Meric Gertler said in a campuswide e-mail.But responses differed by region. In British Columbia, UBC said it was cancelling only lectures with more than 250 students, which would apply to a relatively small number of classes. All smaller classes would proceed as usual.
“Almost 50 per cent of our student population hails from outside of the province of Nova Scotia and forcing our students to travel home at this time is a far greater risk than having them remain in Antigonish,” St. F-X president Kevin Wamsley said in a statement. Western was among the first Ontario universities to cancel in-person classes this week. The university’s president Alan Shepard said the campus is not closing, but classes will not be running until Wednesday and will be online after that. University residences will remain open, Mr. Shepard said, in contrast to some U.S. universities that shut their dorms and left students, particularly those from overseas, unsure where to turn.
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