{"id":68616,"date":"2020-08-31T09:06:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T13:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=68616"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:17:43","slug":"new-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/new-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Ushers in Exciting New Academic Year with Supports and Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Ushers in Exciting New Academic Year with Supports and Services\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Every fall, when students return to class at Carleton University, they come back to a changed campus: new programs, new faces, sometimes new buildings, and always new opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This September, although the physical landscape may be familiar, they will begin an academic year unlike any other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> last March forced Carleton and universities across the country to shut down non-essential campus operations and rapidly switch to remote learning, but faculty and staff have now had several months to plan and prepare for the new term, developing a wide array of supports and services to help students settle into the year as smoothly and safely as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online classes and meetings will remain the norm for the foreseeable future \u2014 part of a broader municipal and provincial effort to minimize the transmission and community incidence of the coronavirus \u2014 while a limited number of campus facilities carefully reopen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students will move into residence rooms over a six-day period starting Sept. 2, and they will be following a series of COVID-19 protocols that cover everything from dining and masks to extra cleaning of communal spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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