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NC College Beat has decided to consolidate the COVID-19 data from North Carolina’s many schools and put them here, where we will update the numbers each week throughout the semester. Below, we have cumulative cases, positive test rates, and more from all of the UNC System schools plus the five largest private schools in the state. Schools are ordered from largest to smallest, based on enrollment. Notes:
UNC System North Carolina State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 11 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 1,311 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 3 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 18 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown* Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.2% * 2,012 total positive cases since July 1, 2020 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 7 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 788 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 4 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.4% East Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 2 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 2 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 579 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 7 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1% Appalachian State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 2 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 366 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 2 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2.4% * 41 active student cases on March 2 University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 3 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 179 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 3 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 309 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.6% North Carolina A&T University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 281 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 1 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.7% Western Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 2 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 23 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 182 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2.5% University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 60 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown** * 5 current active student cases ** 2.3% in latest surveillance testing period North Carolina Central University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 106 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown Fayetteville State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 2 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 66 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 2 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown * 2 active student cases Winston-Salem State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 46 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown University of North Carolina at Asheville (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 2 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 0 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 51 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0% Elizabeth City State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 1 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 31 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown (for students considered high-activity) University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 29 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 59 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 6.9% North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 27 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 8 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown Private Schools Duke University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 28 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 3: 423 Clusters Reported since Jan. 3: 2 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.1% * 26 students in isolation and 84 students in quarantine over the past week Wake Forest University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 1 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 905 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.9% * 20 active cases on March 1 Elon University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 2 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.4% * 159 total students in quarantine/isolation Campbell University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: March 2 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 2 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown High Point University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: not reported/unknown On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown 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By Thomas Gessner
I once went on a religious retreat through my High School, and like most retreats we had this enigmatic speaker; he played guitar, wore flat-billed hats, and kept trying to hide the fact that he was a smoker. Mr. Smoker had one throughline over this two-day retreat, and it remains terrible advice in my eyes. As I sat in the rec center of a summer camp that was hemorrhaging money, he said to myself and the other unlucky fellows, “If you aren’t going to do something 100 percent, it’s better to do it zero percent.” I do a poor job of hiding my emotions, and my mouth was wide open in a state of complete disbelief. The logic of Mr. Smoker had no place in my brain, and my mouth was acting as a door, letting it leave to return to where it came from. I left the retreat thinking that this guy was a complete jackass, and I still think that. I mean, 99 percent is better than zero percent, even 60-70 percent. Just imagine not turning in an assignment and telling your professor, “I knew I wasn’t going to put in 100 percent effort, so instead of attempting to do it at all, I decided that not doing it at all was the right thing to do.” You’d probably leave the professor’s office with a wad of spit on your face and a scarlet letter stitched on your ass.
While I just spent a fair amount of time ripping this concept apart, as well as this perfectly nice man who happened to say an idiotic thing, there is exactly one instance where this statement is not wrong. Just one. College. And when I say college, I’m not talking about students or even the teachers, I’m talking about choosing to even have college happen during the pandemic. If students can’t be in person, learning in the classroom, getting the opportunities to meet other students to talk and share ideas with, why are we doing this? There’s a lot you can only do once, and being a freshman in college is near the top of the list in terms of importance. All I ever heard in high school was about how college is this unbeatable experience, just pure ecstasy, where not only you have fun, but you grow as a person too. People talk about college the same way they talk about losing their virginity, and for some those events are probably related. I had teachers that acted as though college was the reason that they could become who they are today (which, for me, was a little off-putting because they were mediocre at their jobs which they often criticized and did not get paid well to do). Regardless, college is apparently the best thing ever, and that starts with freshman year. And in my case, I was dying to get to college since my senior year of high school, where I was tired of the lack of control in my life, not having classmates who shared my same motivations, and living with my parents at home, listening to them complain about my presence and asking why I go out so much. Needless to say, I had some pretty big expectations for my first year in college. I was excited about the whole process: I enjoyed filling out the Common App, I had fun answering essay questions and doing research and going on campus tours, and I hadn’t even gotten to the actual college part yet. But, as one could probably figure out, those expectations I had created were forced to adapt to the coronavirus. I think I did a pretty good job mentally preparing for some online classes, wearing a mask, giving up the handshake for the much less germy elbow bump. When I got to campus in August, I felt happy to be in a dorm, have a new bed, a new desk, new dreams, and even one in-person class. I was sure that by next semester I would be in an uncomfortable lecture hall seat, and, mask or not, I’d have an infectious smile from ear to ear. Well, here we are, and I could not have been more wrong. I cannot name a single academic building on campus, and I have no idea what the insides of these buildings look like. The walls could be covered with pictures of me naked and I wouldn’t know. It’s not only that most students at Chapel Hill, including myself, don’t have in-person classes, it’s that people think this is okay. Zoom is the worst way to learn, and the students are being affected by it in a way that society is yet to see. No one learns better online, no one. It is not an effective substitute for in-person instruction, no matter what way you slice it. I have been academically neutered, and I know, in my heart of hearts, that I'm not alone in that feeling. Everyone is becoming progressively dumber from all of this, and this is where my point about only doing things once becomes relevant. Society has decided to push through and educate everyone well below 100 percent of their potential. At this point, if school boards and deans continue to prevent actual learning, why don’t we just call the 2020-21 academic year a wash? No one is going to take this year seriously looking back. It won’t be measurable to the rest of college, or even life, and if we are going to have that attitude, we shouldn’t bother trying to force our way through an inadequate college year. I can’t be a freshman in college twice. Looking back, I think it would have been the right move for whoever is in power to tell all the 18-year-olds to just sit this year out and relax. Let’s wait until we can do this right, instead of having this hobbled school year where no student is happy or given a real opportunity to succeed, academically or socially. Maybe this is a defeatist view, and too much time has already passed for any of this to matter, but in retrospect it might have been better to just coast at zero percent rather than go through with this 45 percent crap that has taken up my freshman year. When everyone inevitably goes back to school for real, it’s going to be a massacre for us. When I’m bored in class, I can’t just pull out my phone because I don’t particularly care about the size of Rasputin’s penis, or mute myself so I can have a conversation with my roommate about the Charlotte Hornets, or cook myself brunch while the professor drones on and on. Instead, I’ll have to sit there and feel absolute pain. Things could be a lot worse for me though, and I especially pity the students who cheat. Life will not be so easy for them when they no longer have the internet and group chats to give them the answers to exam questions. When in-person instruction returns I won't know any of the buildings on campus, so as a sophomore I will have to deal with the soul-crushing embarrassment of walking into the wrong classroom and asking someone where I’m supposed to be. Because of online school, I do not have the strength to do that anymore. It would be far too taxing on me, and I enjoy talking to people! The adjustment period is going to painful, and while an argument can be made that this year has given us Gen Z losers “character”, I can only continue to think of the utopia we’d have if I didn’t have to have a debate with myself every morning about whether or not I will leave my Zoom video on. ● The Recommended Content Widget will appear here on the published site.
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By Lucas Thomae
NC College Beat has decided to consolidate the COVID-19 data from North Carolina’s many schools and put them here, where we will update the numbers each week throughout the semester.
Below, we have cumulative cases, positive test rates, and more from all of the UNC System schools plus the five largest private schools in the state. Schools are ordered from largest to smallest, based on enrollment. Notes:
UNC System North Carolina State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 22 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 36 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 1,257 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 3 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 21 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 25 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown* Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.9%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 21 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 12 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 725 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 4 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.2%
East Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 21 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 17 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 547 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 7 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2%
Appalachian State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 23 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 316 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 2 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2.2%
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 22 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 12 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 169 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 21 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 10 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 283 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.6%
North Carolina A&T University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 22 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 271 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 1 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 4.4%
Western Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 23 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 14 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 150 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2.9%
University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 22 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 55 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown**
** 2.3% in latest surveillance testing period North Carolina Central University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 23 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 108 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Fayetteville State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 22 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 63 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Winston-Salem State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 21 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 42 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina at Asheville (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 23 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 3 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 49 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 3.1%
Elizabeth City State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 22 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 4 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 28 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 22 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 20 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 47 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 19 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 7 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Private Schools Duke University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 21 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 3: 397 Clusters Reported since Jan. 3: 2 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.1%
Wake Forest University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 22 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 856 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 5.0%
Elon University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 22 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.5%
Campbell University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 19 On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 6 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
High Point University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: not reported/unknown On-Campus Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown* Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
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By Lucas Thomae
NC State sent out a notification on Friday, Feb. 19 that they had identified a cluster of COVID-19 at a house in Greek Village.
A cluster is defined by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services as five or more COVID-19 cases in close proximity to each other. This is the third cluster that NC State has identified in 2021. This is the first cluster associated with Greek Life that the school has identified this semester. In the fall, ten of the 27 clusters reported by NC State were associated with Greek Life. According to NC State’s COVID-19 Dashboard, there have been 1,182 positive COVID-19 cases between students and employees this year. On Thursday, Feb. 18, the school reported 74 positive cases, which is among their highest counts of any day this year. ● The Recommended Content Widget will appear here on the published site.
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By Thomas Gessner
Dating apps have quickly become a staple of phone lock screens around the world, and they are being used by all types of people, different genders, sexes, and age groups more than ever. But how are these apps being used amid a pandemic? The antithesis of romance that is the COVID-19 virus, a disease that spreads through close contact and touch, stifled many lovers' options to meet potential partners in conventional manners. But, apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble are providing new opportunities for individuals to participate in dating and relationships. In particular, one large demographic taking advantage of these services has been, none other than, college students.
Robert Kelchen, a blogger, professor and researcher who discusses higher education, has said that “campus life will be a combination of a monastery and a minimum-security prison”, and while there is plenty of evidence to support the latter comparison, college life for many is not celibate. Perhaps Kelchen underestimates both the lack of control and oversight a college has on its students, as well as the determination of students who may be away from any parents or guardians for the first time in their lives. This series of anonymous interviews with college students (all North Carolina residents who attend four-year institutions) asserts the idea that college-aged youth are continuing, or attempting, a proactive lifestyle.
The students were asked questions about their usage of dating apps in college during the pandemic, and from among that group there were a range of reasons for downloading these apps (Tinder being the most popular), but still, plenty of commonality remained. Hookups while being in an open relationship, friends with benefits, friends with no benefits, new relationships, long term sexual relationships; all were goals given in regard to dating app usage.
“The pandemic has made it hard to meet people so I’ve met some guys through there who I’m just friends with,” one interviewee said. Every student interviewed said that they intended to physically meet people they met on dating apps, despite the potential dangers involved with such an act. This is something not supported by most major dating services, who have been advocating for socially-distanced meetups or online dates, but college students are not on these apps to keep their distance from people. Every interviewee had already met someone they found on the app in person with the intention of a relationship and/or sexual activity. They also clarified that using these apps was “not necessarily because of the pandemic,” however. Maybe these excursions aren’t something that’s premeditated or particularly thought out, as one student seemed to infer. “I don’t really think about why I’m using dating sites, I just kinda use them,” he said. This statement suggests that this new crop of Tinder and Bumble users might not have a plan, especially in a more spontaneous period of their lives.
Every student interviewed cited COVID-19 as a reason why they began using dating apps, or started using them more frequently, but that’s not to say that students wouldn’t be on these apps if the pandemic never happened. In general, the college lifestyle has an undeniably large influence on the usage of dating apps. The middle section of Generation Z is entering a time in their lives without the same levels of supervision, and with a continued desire to connect with people on a romantic, platonic, and sexual level.
That being said, college-aged students are having less and less sex, per a 2018 study by the National College Health Assessment, which showed a five percent drop in sexual activtity among college students since 2000. For the fall of 2020 survey, only 6.7 percent of surveyed undergraduate students said they participated in vaginal intercourse in the past year, but this is higher than the percentage for the spring of 2019, which was 5.5 percent. Now, it seems counterintuitive, but maybe people like Robert Kelchen are looking at the impacts of the pandemic incorrectly. An age group that has been participating in sexual intercourse less and less every year could be motivated by a greater lack of human interaction to become sexually and romantically active. In this respect, the pandemic almost serves as a catalyst for college-aged kids using dating apps. Maybe the pandemic has reinvigorated college students, students who grew up with iPods and cell phones, students with a more intimate understanding of technology and apps than anyone else on the planet, and because of that have turned to something they can understand: Tinder, Bumble, etc. Of course, what is being seen here is a lot of correlation and circumstantial conclusions made using rational thought in the absence of hard facts. But the small group of students interviewed is helpful on an anecdotal level for comprehending this movement to dating apps. My hope is that these ideas presented will allow for greater thought and contemplation of how students have found connection in a world lacking just that. So don’t brush off these students’ mid-pandemic dating lives, because maybe they’re just ahead of the curve. Pretty soon, your own phone screen may be filled with some more yellow and red. ● The Recommended Content Widget will appear here on the published site.
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By Lucas Thomae
The COVID-19 Dashboard: By now, that collection of charts and graphs has become a staple of every school’s pandemic response webpage.
NC College Beat has decided to consolidate the COVID-19 data from North Carolina’s many schools and put them here, where we will update the numbers each week throughout the semester. Below, we have cumulative cases, positive test rates, and more from all of the UNC System schools plus the five largest private schools in the state. Schools are ordered from largest to smallest, based on enrollment. Notes:
UNC System North Carolina State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 26 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 1,072 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 2 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 1 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown* Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.5%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 10 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 695 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 4 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.2%
East Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 16 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 7 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 508 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 6 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 3%
Appalachian State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 16 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 44 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 266 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2.8%
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 13 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 165 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 14 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 261 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.4%
North Carolina A&T University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 257 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 1 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2.3%
Western Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 16 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 3 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 120 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.3%
University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 5 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 46 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
North Carolina Central University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 95 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Fayetteville State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 4 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 59 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Winston-Salem State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 40 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina at Asheville (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 9 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 45 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 3.8%
Elizabeth City State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 10 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 28 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 4 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 42 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.7%
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 13 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 7 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Private Schools Duke University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 14 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 24 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 3: 372 Clusters Reported since Jan. 3: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.1%
Wake Forest University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 15 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 788 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 7.5%
Elon University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 16 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 225 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.6%
Campbell University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 16 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 19 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
High Point University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 16 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 19 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
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By Lucas Thomae
The COVID-19 Dashboard: By now, that collection of charts and graphs has become a staple of every school’s pandemic response webpage.
NC College Beat has decided to consolidate the COVID-19 data from North Carolina’s many schools and put them here, where we will update the numbers each week throughout the semester. Below, we have cumulative cases, positive test rates, and more from all of the UNC System schools plus the five largest private schools in the state. Schools are ordered from largest to smallest, based on enrollment. Notes:
UNC System North Carolina State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 29 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 1,141 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 2 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.4%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 12 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown* Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.9%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 34 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 648 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 4 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.4%
East Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 14 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 436 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 4 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2%
Appalachian State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 9 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 37 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 214 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.1%
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 17 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 142 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 7 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 13 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 204 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 4.3%
North Carolina A&T University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 7 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 240 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 1 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 4.4%
Western Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 7 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 101 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.7%
University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 6 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 35 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
North Carolina Central University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 89 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Fayetteville State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 8 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 54 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Winston-Salem State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 27 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina at Asheville (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 16 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 36 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 12%
Elizabeth City State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 3 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 27 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 1 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 38 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 5 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 3 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Private Schools Duke University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 7 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 40 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 3: 352 Clusters Reported since Jan. 3: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.2%
Wake Forest University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 8 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 45 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 508 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 19.1%
Elon University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 9 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 225 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.3%
Campbell University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 9 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 19 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
High Point University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 9 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 18 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
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By Lucas Thomae
Two more clusters of COVID-19 have been reported by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The first, at Morrison residence hall, was reported on Tuesday, Feb. 2. The second, reported yesterday, was at Connor residence hall. A cluster is defined by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services as five or more COVID-19 cases in close proximity to each other. This is now the fourth cluster that UNC has reported in 2021 and the third in the past seven days, suggesting that the school is heading in an unfavorable direction in terms of case counts. According to their COVID-19 Dashboard, UNC reported 145 positive cases from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3. The previous week saw 134 positive cases, and the week before that had 118 positive cases. During the fall semester, UNC had reported four clusters of COVID-19 before they asked students to cancel their on-campus housing contracts. By the end of 2020, the school had reported a total of 12 clusters. This semester however, chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz suggested that there will be no “off-ramp” for on-campus students. In January, he told the Daily Tar Heel that the university has “no intentions” of sending students home. Instead, the school is relying on a large-scale asymptomatic testing program and an increased number of beds reserved for students in isolation and quarantine. The school has reported 600 cumulative positive cases since Jan. 1, 494 from students and 106 from employees. The Recommended Content Widget will appear here on the published site.
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By Lucas Thomae
The COVID-19 Dashboard: By now, that collection of charts and graphs has become a staple of every school’s pandemic response webpage.
NC College Beat has decided to consolidate the COVID-19 data from North Carolina’s many schools and put them here, where we will update the numbers each week throughout the semester. Below, we have cumulative cases, positive test rates, and more from all of the UNC System schools plus the five largest private schools in the state. Schools are ordered from largest to smallest, based on enrollment. Notes:
UNC System North Carolina State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 28 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 48 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 814 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 2 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.4%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 31 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 30 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown* Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.7%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 31 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 41 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 558 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 2 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 1.0%
East Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 1 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 19 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 376 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 3 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 4%
Appalachian State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 1 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 37 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 166 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2.1%
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 1 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 16 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 108 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 31 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 8 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 182 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 6.9%
North Carolina A&T University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 29 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 219 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 1 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 3.6%
Western Carolina University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 1 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 28 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 90 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2.1%
University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 1 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 2 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 23 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0
North Carolina Central University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 1 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 83 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Fayetteville State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 29 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 10 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 4: 38 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Winston-Salem State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 31 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 21 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown Asymptomatic Testing: no Re-entry testing: yes University of North Carolina at Asheville (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 1 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 14 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 23 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 4.7%
Elizabeth City State University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 1 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 15 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 15 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 1 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 6 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 29 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 30 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 1 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
Private Schools Duke University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 31 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 54 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 3: 296 Clusters Reported since Jan. 3: Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.3%
Wake Forest University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 31 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 45 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: 76 Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: 0 Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 2.0%
Elon University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 2 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 175 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown* Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: 0.4%
Campbell University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Jan. 29 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: 2 Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
High Point University (Dashboard) Dashboard last updated: Feb. 2 Students in Isolation/Quarantine: not reported/unknown Cumulative Cases since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown* Clusters Reported since Jan. 1: not reported/unknown Past-Seven-Days Positive Test Rate: not reported/unknown
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By Lucas Thomae
On Friday, Jan. 29 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sent out a notification that a cluster of COVID-19 had been identified at Avery Residence Hall. A cluster is defined by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services as five or more COVID-19 cases in close proximity to each other.
This is the second cluster that the school has discovered since move-in started on Jan. 13. The first cluster, reported on Jan. 13, was associated with students who had stayed on campus over winter break. Last semester, UNC reported a total of 12 clusters. In their return to campus for the spring semester, the school implemented a regular asymptomatic testing program for all students living on or near campus. According to UNC’s COVID-19 Dashboard, there have been 489 positive cases since Jan. 1, 391 from students and 98 from employees. Of the 201 positive cases reported since students moved back to campus, 150 have been from asymptomatic testing, proving that the new testing program has been effective in catching cases before they spread. ● The Recommended Content Widget will appear here on the published site.
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