Emerson will remove plexiglass dividers installed in classrooms preceding the Fall 2021 semester.
According to Emerson’s assistant vice president of facilities and campus services Duncan Pollock,...
By Adri Pray, Content Managing Editor January 29, 2022
Emerson reported 5 positive COVID-19 cases on Friday of the 1,006 tests administered, setting the daily positivity rate at 0.50 percent, the fourth consecutive day below one percent.
The college also...
By Adri Pray, Content Managing Editor January 27, 2022
Emerson has seen 404 positive COVID-19 tests since the spring testing cycle began on Jan. 3, breaking a threshold not seen through the entire pandemic.
The college reported nine positive COVID-19 tests...
By Adri Pray, Content Managing Editor January 25, 2022
Emerson reported 11 positive COVID-19 tests on Tuesday out to the 1,841 administered on Monday.
Tuesday’s dashboard update also reported that eight community members were in on-campus isolation. Zero...
In an effort to rebuild the “Emerson bubble” in the first weeks of the spring semester, the college imposed several restrictions not seen since the first year of the pandemic—and students are divided...
By Adri Pray, Content Managing Editor January 21, 2022
Emerson College has reported 332 positive COVID-19 cases since the start of the spring semester—the highest numbers since the beginning of the pandemic—and currently sits at a 3.20 percent positivity...
By Adri Pray, Content Managing Editor January 18, 2022
In just two weeks since the onset of the spring 2022 semester, Emerson has reported a cumulative 301 positive COVID-19 cases.
The college has administered 8,534 tests since Jan. 3, and currently reports...
By Adri Pray, Content Managing Editor January 13, 2022
An unprecedented 228 positive COVID-19 cases have been reported at Emerson in the ten days since the commencement of the spring 2022 semester.
Cumulatively, Emerson has administered 5,015 tests since...
Less than a week into the spring 2022 semester, Emerson has already reported 228 positive COVID-19 tests, leading to uncertainty regarding the rest of the semester amid rising cases statewide.
Emerson’s...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor January 11, 2022
Emerson will resume in-person classes on Jan. 18 with a slew of extended restrictions college officials announced on Tuesday evening.
Citing community members’ vigilance and belief that protocols...
In the week leading up to students’ return to campus, Emerson reported over 80 positive COVID-19 tests, reflecting a statewide struggle to contain the spread of the Omicron variant.
Of the 1,056...
By Adri Pray, Content Managing Editor January 7, 2022
Emerson will decrease its isolation and quarantine time to five days per guidance changes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced college officials on Friday.
Effective Jan. 7,...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor December 22, 2021
A day after delaying the start of the spring semester, college officials on Wednesday detailed plans to resume in-person classes amid an unprecedented surge of COVID-19 both on campus and statewide, with...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor December 21, 2021
Emerson will hold all classes during the first week of the spring semester remotely, college officials announced Tuesday evening.
The college will hold all courses on the Boston campus remotely from...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor September 25, 2021
Emerson has reported ten new positive COVID-19 tests since Sept. 20 on the Boston campus, raising the college’s cumulative positive tests to 48.
The ten positive tests come from 3,994 tests administered...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor September 7, 2021
Through just over two weeks of fall semester COVID-19 testing, Emerson has reported 21 positive COVID-19 tests despite sky-high vaccination rates amongst community members.
More than half of the positives...
Despite the vaccine mandate for community members, Emerson has reported 14 positive COVID-19 tests in just over a week since the start of fall semester testing, according to the college’s dashboard.
The...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor August 23, 2021
Between Aug. 17 and Aug. 23, Massachusetts reported an average of 1,267 COVID-19 cases each day. In the same seven-day period, the death toll rose by 31.
Cases reached an individual day high of 1,459...
Emerson will lift most of the restrictions implemented on April 7 to slow down the unprecedented spread of COVID-19 amongst the community since late March on Thursday morning, college officials announced...