A decision about Ohio State University's fall semester could be made in the next few weeks.
The school has moved classes online for both the spring and summer . Ohio State University president Michael Drake said plans for next fall hinge on COVID-19 case projections in the state.
In an interview with student paper , Drake said the university could make a decision by the end of June on whether to return to in-person classes come fall.
鈥淲e鈥檇 want to have a decision as soon as possible because if we are going to plan for a different fall, we want to plan for a different fall when everybody can do that,鈥� Drake told the paper.
He suggested the semester could include wide-scale social distancing strategies like wearing face masks on campus, and offering more online and hybrid classes.
On April 17, the university created a to direct the return to on-campus operations. It鈥檚 led by the deans of the Colleges of Public Health and Nursing, and intends to use data on COVID-19 to formulate plans for how Ohio State should move forward.
Gov. Mike DeWine has targeted May 1 for when the state will begin reopening businesses, but said it will be a slow process. K-12 schools will continue teaching remote for the rest of the academic year, and no announcement has been made yet about the fall.
The university declined to comment further.
