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Here’s Our List of Colleges’ Reopening Models

By Chronicle Staff August 28, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic left higher-education leaders facing difficult decisions about how to reopen campuses. The Chronicle has teamed up with Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative (C2i) to present the reopening models of nearly 3,000 institutions.

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Here's Our List of Colleges' Reopening Models

Last updated 2:04 p.m. ET October 1, 2020
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Out of nearly 3000 colleges, 30% are fully online. 30% are fully in person. 30% are undetermined.

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The coronavirus pandemic left higher-education leaders facing difficult decisions about how to reopen campuses. The Chronicle has teamed up with Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative (C2i) to present the reopening models of nearly 3,000 institutions.

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But that doesn’t tell the full story. Two-year colleges, for instance, are much more likely than four-year colleges to be operating online this fall.

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Graphs show the percent of institutions from each category by academic instruction mode.

SOURCE: The categories come from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. The selectivity category uses the 2018 Carnegie Undergraduate Classification.
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Statewide decisions, regional differences, and Covid-19-case counts also appear to play a role:

SOURCE: Reopening plans are from College Crisis Initiative at Davidson College. The Covid-19 known case numbers are from USAFacts as of September 28, 2020. Population estimates are from the 2018 5-Year American Community Survey. County outlines are the 2018 edition of the U.S. Census Bureau’s cartographic boundary shapefiles.
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SOURCE: Reopening plans are from College Crisis Initiative at Davidson College. The Covid-19 known case numbers are from USAFacts as of September 28, 2020. Population estimates are from the 2018 5-Year American Community Survey.
NOTE: The seven-day average represents the average of new cases per day over the previous seven days.

Please contact the College Crisis Initiative at Davidson College at c2i@davidson.edu for permission to use these data in scholarly research.

Jacquelyn Elias, Don Troop, and David Wescott contributed to this project.

We welcome your thoughts and questions about this article. Please email the editors or submit a letter for publication.
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