Things will be looking closer to normal this coming fall at Brandon University as the school looks to phase back in more on-campus learning into their students' everyday routines.
BU Media Director, Grant Hamilton says it will be a fuller campus but it won't be quite back to normal just yet.
"We are really looking forward to with vaccination rates climbing, and case counts declining that we can get back to a full normal sooner rather than later."
Hamilton laid out the university's plan for a return to on-campus learning this fall.
"Currently, what we are planning for is classes of 25 students or fewer. With physical distancing, mask-wearing in place. All the things you'd be used to if you were going to a grocery store or department store."
While Hamilton talked about how vital social interaction is to the learning experience, he also shared an optimistic message for education moving forward entirely past the pandemic,
"Hopefully, we can apply some of the lessons that we were forced to learn through COVID-19 and go forward and make that part and parcel of the new way of learning and the new way of teaching. We all learned to bake sourdough, and we also learned a bit about zoom, and maybe we can apply some of those lessons to make the future not just exactly what we did before but in some ways better."
There has not been a full campus at Brandon University since March 2020, but the school is hopeful that will change sometime soon. In the meantime, they are more than happy to welcome back as many students and staff as possible.
