Texas State To Extend Online Classes Through Second Summer Session

SAN MARCOS – Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases in Hays and Williamson Counties, Texas State University will transition nearly all classes to online delivery for the Summer II session beginning July 6 on both the Round Rock and San Marcos Campuses.

“The President’s Cabinet and I have been monitoring daily the COVID-19 situation in Hays and Williamson Counties,” Texas State President Denise Trauth said. “In consultation with Chief Medical Officer Emilio Carranco, M.D., this afternoon, we made the decision that for summer II we will transition nearly all face-to-face classes to online delivery.”

“The only courses that will remain face-to-face are those that require a face-to-face component for licensure or degree requirements,” Trauth continued. “The number of students enrolled in face-to-face courses during summer II will be about 200 on the San Marcos Campus and about 200 on the Round Rock Campus. The courses remaining in the face-to-face mode will follow strict standard operating procedures to ensure the health, wellness, and safety of faculty and students. There is no change to the status of our phased resumption of research in research facilities and field sites.”

“The health, wellness, and safety of staff are also our priority. We do not expect all staff to return to full-time in-person work during the summer II session. Offices that have been able to operate with minimal staff physically present on our campuses since the beginning of summer should continue to do so until we begin to ramp up for the fall semester in early August,” Trauth said. “All units that normally provide face-to-face student services in the summer must continue to do so with appropriate modifications to enhance public health. To limit the number of people in an area at a given time, we have asked supervisors to develop plans for alternating schedules, where employees work remotely on some days or portions of days, and/or work on weekends, early morning hours, late evening hours, or combination of these.”

“We are planning for a return of face-to-face instruction and services in fall 2020. If students are comfortable returning to our campuses, we have many protective measures in place,” she continued. “For students who are not able to return to campus at that time, or choose not to do so, remote learning opportunities are available to keep them on track academically. Not all classes will be available in a remote format; so, students will need to meet with their advisors to assess how such a choice would affect their paths toward graduation.”

The university’s chief medical officer monitors the campus and local situation closely and is in regular consultation with public health officials at the local, state, and federal levels.

Social distancing and other strategies the university has implemented to help control the spread of COVID-19 are outlined in the Roadmap to Return at www.txstate.edu/coronavirus/road-map.html.

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  1. Cowards. Proof we are caught in a never ending cycle. People refuse to look at the data objectively. They cannot distinguish the key indicator from chaff. We are being blinded by emotion.

    Case numbers were always going to jump. That was inevitable product of exponential growth. What hasn’t increased is the fatality rate. In four months, Bexar County as recorded fewer than 120 COVID RELATED deaths. Hays County is at eight (8). All the while, the CDC has estimated there are 10 asymptomatic cases for every confirmed. That means 91% are extremely mild and the fatality rate is an order of magnitude lower than what is being presented on those ever present Scary Red Maps.

    Objectively:
    1. Getting COVID is inevitable.
    2. COVID doesn’t kill. It complicates.
    3. After 4 months of lockdown/unemployment, people are not as well prepared to deal with an illness.

    We should never have locked down. It did nothing but make the situation worse. We need to open now. Open everything.

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