Colleges are still deciding whether to restart face-to-face classes this fall. More than half of some 1,200 institutions The Chronicle of Higher Education is tracking are planning for in-person instruction, but that share has slowly shrunk in the past few weeks as the pandemic shows little sign of subsiding.
Elite institutions such as Harvard University and the University of Southern California, as well as well-resourced systems such as the California State University, have elected to remain mostly online for the coming year.