Joseph Harroz Jr., Oklahoma University's interim president, in a virtual address to the Faculty Senate on Monday said the university was considering several options for resuming in-person courses, including one scenario where the university would remain online through the coming fall and spring semesters, reported Nick Hazelrigg, a former Inside Higher Ed reporter and editor in chief of the OU Daily, a student newspaper.
The three options cited by Harroz, a former general counsel at OU, included resuming in-person courses in the fall, resuming them in the spring or remaining online only through the remainder of the university's following academic year. The university previously moved to online instruction through July. Harroz also said for the first time that employee furloughs were on the table.
“This is a lot of scenario planning. We don’t have a lot of certainty,” Harroz said, according to the newspaper.