Coronavirus Impact: Fewer Students Returning to LHU

LOCK HAVEN – It’s move-in time for students at Lock Haven University, but that on-campus number has been greatly reduced as the university is offering primarily online classes this semester, the result of COVID-19.

School President Robert Pignatello had announced earlier this summer that up to 85 percent of classes will take place remotely. Courses with hands-on, experiential components, including studio art, labs, clinicals, and some first-year experience courses will still be taught face-to-face. The plan involves limited on-campus residency at rates two-thirds or more below the typical level, the school had said.

The campus move-in period began Thursday and continues through Sunday. Sunday at 2:30 p.m. all incoming and returning students, along with LHU faculty and staff, have been invited to attend a virtual welcome session to kick-off the school’s fall 2020 welcome week.

The first day of classes will be Monday, Aug. 24, as announced earlier. The school had announced over the summer that any face-to-face activities and instruction will still end before Thanksgiving on Nov. 20 as previously planned.

LHU said earlier it is expecting an enrollment of some 3,500 students this fall.