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UD students begin phased return to campus ahead of remote start to spring semester

DAYTON — Students at the University of Dayton began a phased return to campus Friday ahead of the school’s remote start to the spring semester next week.

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Friday marks the first time students were allowed in student housing on campus since before the Thanksgiving break. UD implemented a remote end to the fall semester sending students home to complete the semester and final exams.

The phased return to campus will last through January 31 with around 500-600 students moving-in each day. Students have been assigned an arrival date and appointment time and will received a COVID-19 test at a testing center set up in the school’s recreational complex, a university spokesperson said.

Test results are expected within 20 to 30 minutes. Additional tests will be administered to confirm tests that return as positive, the spokesperson said.

Students who receive positive tests, or are deemed close contacts of someone with a positive test, are expected to return home for isolation or quarantine, the school spokesperson said. If a student lives further than 400 miles from campus they can isolate or quarantine on campus.

As students return to their campus homes, the university will plan to have students start the semester with remote learning through the end of January. By February 1 in-person components of the semester. As with all the measures that have been put into action already, the goal is the safety of students, staff, and the community.

“Students did very well in the fall. We had a bubble in the fall. Public Health said our positive numbers really didn’t impact the city or county and their positive numbers toward the end of the semester, we did not see on campus,” Jim Froehlich, Director of Housing Operations told News Center 7′s Katy Andersen.

Some students who moved back before Friday did test positive, however UD representatives said the campus positivity rate is under 1 percent.



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