Purdue University, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in West Lafayette. (Photo: Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier)
WEST LAFAYETTE – As Purdue gets ready to welcome students back on campus for the fall 2020 semester, university officials have insisted to faculty and staff – skeptical and still feeling unsafe about the prospect – that a big component of the Protect Purdue Plan includes working to keep off-campus as safe as possible as a coronavirus pandemic lingers, too.
Last week, Greater Lafayette’s mayors and health officials said that’s been true.
Dr. Jeremy Adler, Tippecanoe County’s health officer and point person during the pandemic, said he’d read the Protect Purdue Plan, which lays out dozens of changes coming for residence halls, classrooms and expectations for the overall culture on the West Lafayette campus.
“I think it’s a good plan,” Adler said. “It’s well thought out. It does a good job of laying down processes to protect faculty, students and staff on campus, in classrooms, in laboratories, in dormitories and in dining halls.”
West Lafayette Mayor John Dennis has been saying for weeks, since Purdue President Mitch Daniels announced that the university would do everything it could to reopen campus safely for the fall semester, that the university hadn’t been working in some sort of a bubble. Dennis said this week that city hall and Purdue were “in constant communication, obviously.”
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