UNC launched a new website Thursday afternoon for Carolina Together, the university’s plan for the campus community to recover and adjust to a ‘new normal’ amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The website lays out plans for students, faculty and staff to return to campus, which university leadership is calling the Roadmap for Fall of 2020. It also details some changes to campus operations and the public health standards the campus community will adopt, as well as resources to prepare for the alterations. The university said the site will be regularly updated as new resources are developed and can be shared with the campus community.

UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz shared some details of the Roadmap for Fall of 2020 at the university’s Board of Trustees meeting last week, announcing classes would begin and finish earlier than normal this upcoming semester. In addition to the community standards laid out on the new website, courses will begin August 10 and end November 24 in an effort to have students off-campus to be cautious of a potential second wave of coronavirus infections in the winter.

The public health community standards include physical distancing in academic halls, dining halls and around campus. Wearing face coverings, frequently washing hands and often working in smaller groups or an online platform are other tactics the university is asking people to adopt.

Guskiewicz shared a video message to accompany the website’s launch.

While the university has said the Roadmap for Fall of 2020 is crafted to prepare for options if COVID-19 cases increase once again, the new website does not mention many alternative plans beyond in-person campus operations. Some students and all of faculty will have the option of remaining away from Chapel Hill through a new program called Carolina Away and teaching courses remotely, respectively.

Campus operations have been largely halted since March, when UNC reduced them and transitioned to a remote instruction model in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

According to the Carolina Together website, the university’s research enterprise will resume on-campus operations at a reduced capacity on Monday, June 1, and will aim to increase to full campus operations through July.

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