Indiana University is planning for an in-person fall semester. Exactly what that will look like in practice isn’t clear yet, but university officials felt it was time to make their intentions known.
“If you look around the country, a lot of institutions are also speaking about what they’re going to do in the fall. People are planning,” Chuck Carney, IU spokesman, said Thursday. “We’ve been asked by students, potential students and parents of students who might be coming here in the fall.”
The IU announcement via news release Wednesday came about two weeks after Purdue University made a similar statement regarding fall 2021 operations. Both universities stressed their plans are based on current trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Should those trends change, adjustments will be made.
Indiana University plans for in-person fall 2021 semester
“As we have learned from the experience of the past year, in the face of this deadly pandemic we cannot set any of our plans in stone,” IU President Michael McRobbie said in the university’s release.
Plans that do exist for the fall so far seem more like general outlines. The IU release referenced “a return to mostly normal operations.”
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