Central Valley California. Some of the CSU's and UC's closed down last week when cases showed up in the area. Now, our campus has closed as well starting Monday and will last all the way till the end of the semester. While this area has only seen one or two cases so far, many people here commute to work in the Bay Area and makes it that much easier for it to hit the Valley pretty fast.
Most of my classes are easily enough converted, but my GIS class is going to be a challenge. Many students don't have a computer powerful enough to run ArcGIS or the internet access to do the work. There's many other classes with labs and field studies and work that really needs to be done on campus with an instructor. It's easy enough to think that students can get an incomplete or something, but there's also many graduating or on a stipulation of passing all classes. My bf has a Pell Grant extension that requires he can only take the classes need for his degree and cannot get an Incomplete. Not to mention, we're only in week 7 and many of us have paid nearly $200 for a semester parking pass. I want to be adaptable to this, but it really has many more questions and problems than just staying home for a couple of weeks.
Last year, the campus also closed due to smoke/air quality from the fires. But it was a temporary thing and all instructions were cancelled including online classes to make things fair for every one.
