{"id":2493,"date":"2021-12-10T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2022-01-25T08:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T04:37:17","slug":"aus-students-are-happy-to-return-fully-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2021\/12\/10\/aus-students-are-happy-to-return-fully-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS Students are Happy to Return Fully to Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Aya El Soussi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah will resume face-to-face classes from the Spring Semester starting on Jan. 16.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For one year and a half, AUS offered either online or hybrid teaching. AUS has decided to come back fully to campus next semester.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AUS students are very excited to return to campus and attend their classes face to face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fatma Mohammed El Tarhuni, a student in AUS, majoring in multimedia and now is a junior 1, said, \u201cThe fact we are going back to campus excites me every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AUS is ready to bring all its students back to campus. They have created a very safe environment all around campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AUS created their elevator buttons with sensor buttons. They also made a bar code that can tell if they are an AUS\u2019R or not, and this is to avoid having many people on campus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students will focus more on campus and meet all their friends and professors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving our classes on campus is ten times better because we as students can focus more, unlike online courses,\u201d said Moustafa Ahmad Al Bezaz, a Junior 1 majoring in civil engineering.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are excited to see their friends and communicate with their professors physically rather than just seeing their professors through a screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will be able to get to see my friends and professors, and it will be easier to communicate with professors,\u201d said El Tarhuni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am so excited that now I will be seeing my real friends and get to know them and meet them in real life, not only behind the screens,\u201d added Al Bezaz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aya El Soussi UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah will resume face-to-face classes from the Spring Semester starting on Jan. 16.&nbsp; For one year and a half, AUS offered either online or hybrid teaching. AUS has decided to come back fully to campus next semester.&nbsp; AUS students are very excited to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,34,32,30,16,17,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-2493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-caad","10":"tag-campus","11":"tag-cas","12":"tag-cen","13":"tag-community","14":"tag-sba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}