The University of Dayton is one of the many Ohio colleges returning to all in-person learning this Fall semester, but some students don’t want their digital classes taken away.
Brett Bartlett is a senior at UD. She says the move back to all in-person classes has some of her classmates and professors worried. She also says the way the university is opening back up doesn’t align with recent COVID health advisories.
“Then the question becomes, okay, you care about the Delta variant, you care about the safety of your students," she said. "[Then] why are you still allowing your gym to move all of their equipment back?”
The university is mandating masks in classroom and lab spaces, but there are numerous exceptions, like in residence halls and in cafeteria spaces while eating. Bartlett says she doesn’t understand why the university couldn’t continue to offer more digital classes.
