Pepperdine, With 5 New COVID-19 Cases, Backs Off From Reopening Campus Next Fall
Written by 991KBU on July 23, 2020
Pepperdine University has five new COVID-19 cases.
Three staff members.
A law college student.
And a graduate student in education psychology.
The school yesterday changed its policy on reopening to on-campus instruction this fall.
Pepperdine was one of the first colleges to announce plans to reopen dorms and start in person classes this fall.
Those plans are off … the school is telling students not to buy plane tickets or make housing arrangements for this fall.
“As you know, this was not the decision we had hoped or planned to make,” President Jim Gash wrote yesterday.
All classes for fall 2020 will be taught online.
Reaction from students … not great.
“Pepperdine really waited til now to pull the rug from under us…cute” said one on Twitter.
“Pepperdine still wants me to pay a campus life fee … charge a campus life fee for me to sit in my room that my parents pay rent for.”
A third student tweeted that “honestly the majority of my college experience at Pepperdine has been hella traumatizing.
“Like every single year there is some trauma event that happens.”
That one is followed by a whole bunch of laugh and cry emojis.
