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Michigan State University will bring students back to campus this fall semester but cap the final three weeks with remote learning.President Samuel Stanley made the announcement Wednesday in an email to faculty, staff and students. It follows months of indecision from the East Lansing-based university, shared by its counterparts across the state, amid the coronavirus pandemic.Related Article"Based on guidance from health care professionals, feedback from faculty, staff and students as well as MSU leadership and recommendations from the university's COVID-19 Reopening Campus Task Force, I am writing today to inform you of our intention to bring Spartans back on campus this fall," Stanley said.He said the university's preparations so far include "increased cleaning standards, establishing a strong supply chain for appropriate amounts of personal protection equipment and partnering with local health care facilities in preparation for an outbreak."Stanley said the university's campuses will remain closed until the state's stay home order ends, set for June 12, and not all employees will return at once.The fall semester will begin as scheduled Sept. 2. In-person classes will end Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving, and the last three weeks of the semester will be conducted remotely. The altered schedule theoretically eliminates travel to and from campus over the holiday."At this point, we believe that a values-driven return is possible and can be done in a way that mitigates the risks to our community," Stanley said.The university will offer hybrid classes and expand remote delivery to accommodate international students and those not comfortable returning to campus."The fall 2020 semester will look different from any previous semester at MSU," Stanley said.MSU March 11 that it was suspending all in-person classes and moving them online, where they will remain through the summer.Amid the pandemic fallout, the university is projecting a in revenue for fiscal year 2021. It has addressed the anticipated 11 percent budget reduction by freezing nonessential hires, pausing nonessential capital projects, limiting travel, reducing or eliminating consultants and implementing a 3 percent budget cut to academic and administrative units.Stanley, who was hired last year with a base salary of $800,000, said earlier this month that he would take a 10 percent pay cut and all executives would take reductions of 2 percent-7 percent through May or June but possibly a full year.MSU's maize and blue rival has yet to lay out its official plans. University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel has said he is "cautiously optimistic" about being able to administer a "public health-informed" fall semester. What that will look like depends on the status of the pandemic come fall, he said.UM projects up to a from the coronavirus outbreak across its three campuses and the Michigan Medicine health system.M. Roy Wilson, president of Wayne State University in hard-hit Detroit, has been more reluctant to say he wants students on campus. When asked on CNN earlier this month about bringing back students to campus for the fall semester, Wilson, who is also an epidemiologist, said: "If it is anything like it has been in the past couple of months, it will be irresponsible to just totally open up the campus."As the curve has flattened in Michigan, more schools have for at least some form of in-person instruction in the fall. Still, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended the stay home order through June 12, and health officials have warned of the threat of a second wave of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 5,300 in Michigan.RECOMMENDED FOR YOUMost Popular12345

Michigan State University will bring students back to campus this fall semester but cap the final three weeks with remote learning.President Samuel Stanley made the announcement Wednesday in an email to faculty, staff and students. It follows months of indecision from the East Lansing-based university, shared by its counterparts across the state, amid the coronavirus pandemic.Related Article"Based on guidance from health care professionals, feedback from faculty, staff and students as well as MSU leadership and recommendations from the university's COVID-19 Reopening Campus Task Force, I am...

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