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“This pandemic is preying on decades of the fundamental arrangement of how we produce our food," said Joshua Specht, an assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame who studies the meat industry.

“This pandemic is preying on decades of the fundamental arrangement of how we produce our food," said Joshua Specht, an assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame who studies the meat industry.

The financial strain “could affect its ability to meet payroll, purchase gasoline, maintain vehicles and provide reliable service,” said James O’Rourke, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame.

“Given that the protests and their intensity have been driven by Beijing’s erosion of promised freedoms, Beijing’s direct imposition of a security law would clearly enflame the population,” said Victoria Tin-bor Hui, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame who has been following the protests.

"In Germany, it's clear much more than the U.S., [that] the emphasis has been on saving firms," says Rudi Bachmann, an economics professor at the University Notre Dame and who is from Germany.

As an exercise in looking at how education leaders can come to different decisions in uncertain times, let’s examine the reasoning of the leaders of two schools: the University of Notre Dame and Princeton University.

This week, Notre Dame became one of the first large universities to announce detailed plans for resuming campus life in the fall.

CNN's Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta speak with University of Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins about the effects the Covid-19 pandemic is having on college students and their universities.

Colleges planning to reopen include Purdue University, Texas A&M University, the University of Notre Dame and statewide systems in Arizona, Florida, New Hampshire and elsewhere.

At the University of Notre Dame, officials are planning for students to return to campus on August 10 — two weeks earlier than typical — and for them to continue without breaks until Thanksgiving. 

In recent days, the University of Notre Dame and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said they intend to start the semester earlier than planned and finish final exams by Thanksgiving.

“This survey might not capture everything that we’re seeing,” said Jason Reed, an economist and the assistant chair and finance professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. 

The University of Notre Dame will be reopening this fall despite coronavirus.

According to The Chronicle, some of the prominent colleges across the country that are planning for in-person classes in the fall include, Auburn University, University of Alabama, University of Arizona, University of Miami, Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, Boston College, University of North Carolina, Manhattan College and New York University.

Given what we think we know about the coronavirus, that the rate of infection has slowed but that -- as Dr. Anthony Fauci has said -- another wave of infection is likely later in the year, the goal should be to reopen in late summer -- an approach that colleges like Notre Dame and several others have said recently they are adopting: open school a couple of weeks earlier than usual, cancel fall break to reduce student travel and shorten the term to finish before Thanksgiving.

The President of the University of Notre Dame, Father John Jenkins, tells Ayman Mohyeldin how his school is preparing to welcome students back onto their South Bend campus in the fall.

Others, such as the University of Notre Dame and Creighton University, have said they will instead begin the term a bit earlier in August and end it at the break in late November.

The Universities of Notre Dame, South Carolina, and San Diego, along with Creighton University, are all planning to end their fall semesters early.

Paul Browne, University of Notre Dame, on the school’s decision to hold classes on campus for the fall semester.

Notre Dame, Purdue and others will begin in-person classes early and end them by Thanksgiving.