After coronavirus cases top 30, RPI suspends some campus access School pivoting to online instruction News staff FacebookTwitterEmail Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is suspending access to the Troy campus and going to remote instruction after seeing at least 30 coronavirus cases among students, faculty and staff. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union TROY - An outbreak of coronavirus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has prompted the school to suspend all in-person instruction and take several other steps, RPI said on its website. The Tuesday, March 2, letter from President Shirley Ann Jackson said the school has now seen more than 30 confirmed COVID-19 cases from faculty, staff or students within a rolling two-week period, among those with campus access.