The La Jolla school will rely heavily on technology and peer pressure as thousands of students populate its dorms.
With 882 students testing positive or likely to be positive, San Diego State University is reeling from an outbreak of COVID-19. Is the same thing about to happen at UC San Diego?
Many students ended up ignoring the rules, especially in the “party” section of the College Area neighborhood. And San Diego State last week finally began requiring dorm students to be tested for the coronavirus. UC San Diego will also have student ambassadors moving about, helping to coax students to wear masks and stay six feet apart.“If we can’t open the school in a way they can stay here, we’ve got to either close the school or lock them down in dorm rooms,” said Dr. Robert T. “Chip” Schooley, a professor of medicine who is helping guide UC San Diego’s “Return to Learn” program.
“The university’s refusal to acknowledge fears about Return to Learn, as well as the release of recent data on the university’s budget and finances, suggests that the university is being run as a business rather than as a community and that financial incentives are being prioritized at the expense of community well-being,” the open letter says.“The idea that we can dictate student behavior and roll out technical solutions has been shown again and again to be demonstrably untrue,” Gere said.
The images — and the trouble at San Diego State — have not led UC San Diego to back away from Return to Learn. Nor did they deter Point Loma Nazarene University, which just added 526 dorm students, or the University of San Diego, which is adding 519 this weekend.The schools say young students fare better academically when they live on or near campus. Students also have been pushing schools to open the dorms so that they can experience college life.
Additionally, UC San Diego is making the most of a time advantage — classes begin about a month later than at most schools, so it has more time to tweak Return to Learn. It’s unclear whether the app will play a significant role in slowing the spread of COVID-19, despite the optimism of school officials. People must choose to use the program, and some may take a pass over privacy concerns.
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