Today’s update surpasses the previous high of 88 undergraduate students in isolation, a record set last Friday.
News, Top Story, Coronavirus Updates
BC Threatens Tighter Restrictions After Covid-19 Uptick
Executive Vice President and Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Michael Lochhead sent an email to students on Tuesday attributing the recent rise in COVID-19 cases at Boston College to “students letting their guard down.” If the trend continues, BC may implement further restrictions, including possibly sending students home early for the semester, the email said.
Coronavirus Updates, Top Story, On Campus, News
BC Resumes Testing as Spring Semester Begins
As community members trickle back onto campus for the spring semester, Boston College has resumed its COVID-19 testing, reporting 53 new undergraduate cases of COVID-19 out of 9,983 undergraduate tests performed since Jan. 19, according to its COVID-19 dashboard, a positivity rate of .53 percent. There are currently 56 undergraduate students in isolation as of…
Newton, Metro, Coronavirus Updates
Drive-In COVID-19 Testing Site Opens in Newton
A new drive-in COVID-19 testing site opened in Newton on Monday in the Riverside MBTA station parking lot on Grove Street.
Top Story, News
Weekly Undergrad Positivity Rate Falls to .57 Percent, BC Cautions Students as Finals Approach
Fifty-four undergraduates were in isolation as of Friday, with 36 in isolation housing and 18 isolating at home.
Coronavirus Updates, On Campus, News
Undergraduate Positivity Rate Rises After Holiday Weekend
As of Thursday, BC’s undergraduate positivity rate rose to .52 percent following the holiday weekend. BC is testing all undergrads this week.
Column, Opinions
Christenson: Boston College Is Not a Good School—But It Can Be
Columnist Grace Christenson asks a question that high school seniors across the country are asking themselves right now: Is Boston College a good school? Well, that depends on what you mean by good. But if we’re using the University’s coronavirus response as a measuring stick, the answer is no.
Column, Opinions
Girardot: BC and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
Columnist Doug Girardot writes that in their reopening rhetoric, BC officials did everything in their effort to downplay the realities of college life in a pandemic. The flurry of summer emails students received in their inboxes and the maroon and gold technocratic signage littered throughout campus have suggested a conditional promise of normalcy: If you do all these things, then we can have school just like usual. But this is a dangerously fantastical apodosis.
On Campus, Coronavirus Updates, Administration, Top Story, News
BC Represents One-Fifth of Mass. Higher-Education Cases in New State Data
Twelve undergraduates tested positive this week, with a positivity rate .66 percent on Thursday—a drop nearly 3 percent drop from last week.
Coronavirus Updates, Administration, Top Story, On Campus, News
Last Week’s Positivity Rate Jumps as BC Fixes Reporting Error
Boston College conducted 596 fewer undergraduate tests last week than it initially reported it had done on Saturday. BC changed the number of undergraduate tests conducted last week from 2,647 to 2,051 on Tuesday afternoon “to correct a data error,” the University’s COVID-19 dashboard said.
