Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State University is opening its campus to the first day of classes in the fall semester — and so far, it doesn’t look like other first days.
Probably fewer than 30 percent of classes were expected to be physically held on campus with about 70 percent being conducted online or remotely in some way.
The upshot: Far fewer students are expected to be physically on campus today, said Seth Bauguess, a Wright State spokesman.
In fact, all non-family students who live on campus have a dorm room all to themselves, Bauguess noted, with some of those suites built for two or three students.
“It is not typical at all,” said Douglas Leaman, Wright State’s interim provost.
About 30 percent of WSU’s courses are either face to face or “flexible” — meant to be delivered in person on some days and online other days. And students always have the option of going fully online if they’re more comfortable that way, Leaman said.
“As I look out my window, I can share that it’s a small percentage of students (physically on campus),” he added. “Campus is pretty quiet right now. The parking lots are pretty empty.”
