With the fall semester on the horizon, the University of Oklahoma president Joseph Harroz, Jr. announced that the institution will be making adjustments for class sizes to best accommodate learning and COVID-19 precautions.
In a statement released to all Norman campus students, staff, and faculty, Harroz outlined the university’s ‘Safe and Resilient Instructional Plan’.
The plan keeps classes with 40 or fewer students as on-campus, in-person classes with classes larger than 40 students being held online. Harroz also outlined that the university will spread the time in between classes to 30-minutes rather than the normal 10-minutes to allow for a smaller concentration of students and faculty commuting from class to class throughout the day at a given time.
Oklahoma will look to utilize larger classrooms to allow for 50-75% capacity to allow for as much social distancing as possible.
This past semester, the university opted to hold classes online for two-weeks following spring break before quickly moving all courses to an online setting as the COVID-19 pandemic began to swell.
With students being welcomed on campus in the fall, the prospects of fall athletics such as football being played are becoming more possible.
Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley has been among one of the more hopeful voices when it comes to getting the college football season in on time and the announcement from president Harroz’s office should have Sooner fans remaining optimistic.
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