Jacobson: No turning back once in-person education begins
(World News Science)

By Sheldon H. Jacobson Jacobson is a Founder Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He applies his expertise in risk assessment to evaluate and inform public policy. He served on the Virginia Tech faculty from 1993-1999. What do Virginia Tech, Old Dominion University, VCU, and James Madison University all have in common? According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, they are listed to have “primarily in person” education for the fall semester. These universities are large public universities with, in some cases, a student population that is a sizeable percentage of their host community population. Of course, “primarily in person” likely means that...