And I'm a little surprised, but not shocked, that UCSB is opening dorms. I wonder how long that will last.
Sororities, IME, create "instant societies" and expect members to be at social events. Dorms are social, but you don't get demerit points for not attending the keg social. I wonder if UCSB is going to have 1 person per room (I hope, I hope).
I found the answer about UCSB:
Campus leadership is awaiting further guidance from the California Department of Public Health outlining the metrics needed for resuming in-person instruction for California colleges and universities. Assuming that we meet those metrics and the UC guidelines, we will offer a limited number of single occupancy rooms this fall in on-campus residence halls. The density in our campus undergraduate apartments has yet to be determined.
In short, not many single rooms and students must sign year long contracts if they want a dorm space. Food service available, but no self serve. Students are responsible to pay for their 9 month contract regardless of what happens (apparently), despite the announcement that the State of California can require online only instruction for as long as it wants to require it.
Santa Barbara County is currently on the "variance list," and supposedly, they are to limit all activities that bring people into close association with each other. AFAIK, they are at Level 1 in the system.
Students are supposed to self-sequester for 7 days upon arrival.
I think UCSB is hoping things will improve in the next 3 weeks - but the last 2 weeks show them (and my own county) going in the wrong direction.
It'll be interesting - but I think they'll end up putting nearly all classes (90%) online. Because SBCounty is not progressing through its levels. UCSB wants the students to come, but hasn't updated its educational plan since June 18. They've had 9-10 cases in just the last 2 weeks, but none of them were in student housing. 69 positive cases total in Isla Vista.
Isla Vista housing is mostly non-UCSB owned, IIRC. So students will do what students do there. It's our most famous party school (among the UC's).