Stanford University canceled a plan to bring freshmen and sophomore students back to campus for winter quarter, as the worsening coronavirus pandemic continues to hit Santa Clara County particularly hard.
In a message to the campus community dated Saturday, Stanford leaders cited a recent tenfold increase in coronavirus cases per 100,000 county residents as a major reason for the change in plans. In addition, as of Friday, 43 Stanford students had tested positive for COVID-19 since Jan. 2, according to the university.
Undergraduate instruction for Stanford’s winter quarter begins remotely on Monday. The university previously said it would let many freshmen and sophomores return to campus from Jan. 21 through 24.
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell said they had hoped that “after a two-week arrival delay and a further two-week period of restricted activity,” public health restrictions would ease enough to “make it worthwhile for our frosh and sophomore classes to be on campus.”
But the university has now concluded that Santa Clara County is unlikely to emerge from California’s most restrictive reopening tier until late in the quarter. The county is the epicenter of the Bay Area’s surge in COVID-19 cases, with the hardest-hit hospitals in the region and far more new ICU patients each day than the next-most impacted county, Alameda.
“Without the ability to expand opportunities for in-person social and academic interaction to the extent we had anticipated, we do not believe we will be able to offer the kind of engaging on-campus student experience that would warrant bringing back the frosh and sophomore classes in their entirety,” Tessier-Lavigne and Drell wrote in the message.
Classes and support services for students will still be available online, and some undergraduate students with special circumstances can remain on campus, the officials said. The university hopes it will be able to bring freshmen and sophomores back on campus for the summer quarter, public health conditions permitting.
J.D. Morris is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jd.morris@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @thejdmorris
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