MANSFIELD, Connecticut — UConn’s President tells FOX61 they have the belongings of 11,000 students still sitting in dormitories right now.
President Thomas Katsouleas told Jenn Bernstein during a taping of The Real Story, when they decided students should leave they told them they should take their computers for online classes and whatever they needed for the short term.
“When we sent the students home, we thought that they’d be gone for a couple of weeks, that we would all shelter-in-place that the virus would pass, and how naïve that was,” Katsouleas said smiling.
“How are you going to tackle that?” Jenn asked.
“We’ve been waiting for the end of finals, we are in finals week right now and we have a little less than a 1,000 students on campus, those are the students who couldn’t go home either they didn’t have a safe place to go or they were international students and couldn’t get back to their home country,” said Katsouleas, “so those students are still there and taking their finals, and once they move out at the end of this week, and we can begin to bring our other students back in phases, over a period of about two weeks to get their things and move them out.”
As of May 8, there still no plan on whether UConn will have online classes for next semester. As for summer courses, those are going to be completely online. The earliest students could be back on campus is for the fall semester but whether or not that will happen is still unknown. A virtual graduation ceremony is scheduled for May 9.
