Guest columnist Timothy Scalona: UMass student trustee: End layoffs, furloughs
A solitary person walks past the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Monday morning, Feb. 8. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Published: 2/9/2021 3:30:10 PM
On a campus that had been suspended in time and silence, students have returned to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for the spring semester. The intensifying COVID-19 crisis has reshaped higher education, pushing college lectures and student events onto Zoom as the seasons continue to pass with no end in sight. While it has only been a week, a rising coronavirus outbreak takes hold at the university.