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Wednesday is the final day of the Fall Semester at Bay College.
Bay President Laura Coleman was pleased with how things went during a difficult year.
“I think this semester went beyond anyone’s expectations,” Coleman told the Radio Results Network. “Were there challenges? Were there difficult spaces with quarantining and all of these things? Absolutely. But our faculty were thoroughly prepared and they did a fantastic job.”
Coleman says the ALMOST made it to the end of the semester, but Governor Gretchen Whitmer shut down in-person instruction for colleges and universities as of last Wednesday. That happened six days before the semester was supposed to end at Bay, shifting everything to on-line. But Coleman says it didn’t disrupt things much.
“For us, the timing was just fine,” Coleman said. “Our students were able to get their Finals done, and our lab classes had gotten their labs completed.”
Coleman says the decision to start classes two weeks early back in August paid dividends in the end.
“The reasoning behind it was that the students were anxious to get back into classroom,” Coleman explained. “They had been pulled out of class in March, and all the kids wanted back. They wanted to be back in the classroom doing what they needed to do. And the second reason was we wanted to not have to deal with travel after Thanksgiving.”
Which given the current coronavirus case counts, that ended up being an important decision.
“Once in a while, you make a really good decision that just turns out to be the best decision that you could’ve made,” Coleman chuckled. “So, yeah, it was very good.”
So, what happens now, before the next semester begins in January?
“There will be deep cleaning (of buildings) that will continue and will get done,” she said. “All of our employees are able to work from home. Most of them are already working from home, just as we did in the spring and summer.”
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