University leaders address concerns about spring semester
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on university town halls about tentative spring-semester plans.
- The paper reported that the university would open for the spring only if public-health conditions allowed, and that plans could still change.
- The article adds that testing would be free and required twice a week for undergraduates and once a week for certain graduate students, fellows, faculty and staff.
- The reporter writes that classes with more than 50 students would be online, all courses would have a remote option and no student would be required to live on campus.
- According to the article, student Yoko Yamashita opposed reopening because COVID-19 cases were higher and the university was not offering a 10% tuition reduction.
- The paper reported that McGuinness, a freshman SGA senator, said student input was used to adjust details rather than determine the university’s overall decisions.