SUNY Oneonta Joins List Of Colleges Closing Down For COVID-19

Another college is being forced to suspend in-person classed following an outbreak of COVID-19 on the campus.

The State University of New York at Oneonta will be the first university in New York to suspend in-person classes for two weeks under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s guidelines which order schools in the state to temporarily end in-person instruction if 100 positive cases are found. The school, where students only returned for classes one week ago, went from 20 positive cases to 105 after tests were done following a number of student parties. According to NBC 4 New York, five students and three campus organizations have been suspended in connection to the parties.

Parents and students quickly took to social media to express their concerns and displeasure with the school, with some stating that the university failed to notify parents and others of the significant rise in cases.

One student took to Twitter to reveal she had learned about what happened on the news and never got any notice from the school about what was happening.

Others chastised the school for allegedly not testing students before they arrived on campus.

There were also plenty of jokes as well, with people stating they weren’t surprised by the news, since the school has a reputation as a party college.

While it is the first college in New York to be shut down following a COVID outbreak, it isn’t the only one that has struggled to keep cases under control since students tarted returning to campuses.

Notre Dame was forced to suspend classes earlier this month after 146 students and a staff member tested positive for the virus, while the University of North Carolina wound up suspending classes as well after 135 positive tests in one week.

CNN also reports that the University of Dayton has also suspended classes after reporting 264 cases at the end of the last week, while four different sororities at Kansas State University have been hit with outbreaks. In New England, 17 students have been suspended from Providence College in Rhode Island for violating safety measures.

The University of Alabama has also seen an increase in cases, with as many as 1,200 students testing positive.