On March 22, Provost Christophe Pierre sent an email to the student body announcing a new pass/fail grading policy for Stevens undergraduate students.
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With all courses in a remote learning environment, students have expressed concern about how this new and unprecedented situation will affect their academic performance.
With classes moving online for the rest of the semester, some students have started questioning whether or not the Honor System still applies.
On March 27, Stevens closed its housing and dining services due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19.
In recent weeks, COVID-19 has produced some type of lifestyle change for all of us, whether it be not being able to attend classes, being advised to work from home, or even both.
As of Sunday, March 29, 2020, there are now six official COVID-19 cases at Stevens.
According to Mayor Ravi Bhalla’s daily briefings, the number of lab-confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Hoboken has grown to 40.
As I sat down to write this column, trapped in my house and still feeling the sting of the email that Stevens sent out last week solidifying the rest of our semester online, I struggled to find anything to say about this whole ordeal.
As of March 25, two new individuals related to Stevens—one student and one staff member—have tested positive for COVID-19. This increases the total number of confirmed cases at Stevens to five.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has become a major public concern worldwide. Cases were first reported in December 2019; since then, there have been over 3,900 confirmed deaths worldwide and at least six presumed positive cases in New Jersey, which has led Stevens Institute of Technology to mount an increasingly severe response effort.