Jakob Milani jmilani@murraystate.edu Colleges across the commonwealth of Kentucky have been attempting to make the college experience safe as the 2020-21 school year has gone on and Murray State has been able to do so, registering the third lowest number of positive cases among the eight public institutions of higher education in the 2021 spring semester. For schools like Murray State, COVID-19 cases have been down during the spring semester compared to the fall semester. A look into each university’s COVID-19 case count on their respective websites show just that. Murray State has had 99 positive cases, making for a total of 576 positive cases this school year. Kentucky State University reported the fewest positive cases so far, with 31 cases in the spring semester.