MUW Students Return

Schools and students are learning lessons they never thought possible, such as remote learning and quarantining.

MUW has already seen one class impacted by covid- 19

Show open schools and students are learning lessons they never thought possible... such as remote learning... and quarantining... muw has already seen one class impacted by covid- 19.

It's a lesson of growth and change... wcbi's bobby martinez joins us live from campus where he talked to students about the transition... joey... muw has a laid back campus and small student population... however, they've been aggressive in planing for covid- 19 and helping students return... and sticking to the plan has been key to keeping students on campus.

Adjusting to change... "i can say it has been quite different."

Some might consider that an understatement for many universities and at mississippi university for women this semester... covid19 has changed the way professors are teaching... with virtual learning being the main focus... "it's been difficult because at the beginning we started face-to- face.

And then halfway through the second week they switched us to virtual so it's a little bit different."

Willard is part of the associate of science in nursing program at the w.

He says as time goes on, students will gradually adjust to the new way of teaching... "this is our first day doing face-to- face check off's.

It was a little different.

It wasn't that bad.

I think it's just getting comfortable with being like one on one with our instructors.

Paola hernandez believes the university has done a good job in helping students with the transition..

"they have done it like really well they do give us time to come to the lab and practice."

"i think it's a new learning adjustment for everybody but we're doing good just making sure to communicate a lot."

Muw president nora miller says the university created a solid plan for the fall semester.

And says the school's experience with online learning is paying off..

"we are fortunate that we've have a good history with online programs and that probably i think it was like 50% of our student credit hours last fall were earned online.

So we know what we're doing, we do it well our students were used to that so it has worked pretty well."

But one thing the university didn't plan for?

An outbreak of covid19 in the nursing program... "that was a big adjustment to our plan.

Since then the state department of health has kind of loosen things up recognizing that the mitigation factors that we have in our plan, helped to reduce the amount of the number of people who would have to be quarantined if we went through that again."

On our website we will give you information on muw's plan for battling covid-19 and where to get information about how many students test positive... live at the w bobby m wcbi news