China News Service, July 7th, according to the US "World Daily" report, Harvard University Undergraduate School announced on the 6th local time that it will only allow freshmen and some other grade students who have to go to school for school reasons to return to campus this fall. The number of people does not exceed 40%. In the fall semester, all online courses will be conducted, and tuition fees will be paid. The fees will be slightly higher than the previous academic year.
Beginning in September, Harvard undergraduates and some students who have been approved for application will be able to return to school and will be arranged in single-room dormitories, except for the dormitory building, most teaching buildings will be closed. Freshmen can live on campus in the fall. Spring semesters will be replaced by senior graduation classes; students in other grades may apply for live-in school due to distance learning and technology, space or food and housing challenges, and need to enter the laboratory for graduation thesis.
Anyone who is not a student in the dormitory will be prohibited from entering, and the resident will dine in the designated restaurant. On-campus students and accommodation managers will be screened for new crowns after arriving at school, and every three days thereafter.
The Harvard undergraduate fee for the academic year beginning in the fall is $49.65 million. Even distance-learning students are required to pay this fee, but they do not need to pay for board and lodging. They can also choose to take two courses for free in the summer semester of 2021. A substantial proportion of Harvard undergraduates will receive financial assistance. Those students who choose distance learning will receive a living allowance of $5,000 per semester.
Most Harvard graduate schools announced earlier that all distance education will be available in the fall. Compared with other universities in the Boston area, Harvard University has one of the strictest restrictions on returning to school.
Principal Lawrence S. Bacow said that the recent rise in new cases of pneumonia in some states illustrates the difficulty of predicting the evolution of the virus. He pointed out, "The school has always wanted to find a way to return all students to school as soon as conditions permit. But they recognized that, fundamentally, our highly interactive, residential Harvard undergraduate experience and the socialization needed to alleviate the spread of new coronary pneumonia There is an inherent incompatibility between distances."