{"id":909,"date":"2020-11-19T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T08:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=909"},"modified":"2020-12-05T07:07:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T03:07:51","slug":"rising-virus-numbers-keep-campus-access-restricted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2020\/11\/19\/rising-virus-numbers-keep-campus-access-restricted\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising virus numbers keep campus access restricted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Rand Al Atrash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 While no decision has yet been made on what campus life will be like in spring, American University of Sharjah does not plan to expand current access given rising UAE pandemic numbers, Chancellor Kevin Mitchell wrote in an Oct. 25 email to faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe recent rise in the number of COVID-19-positive cases prohibits any expansion of access to the academic campus beyond current levels,\u201d Mitchell stated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he noted that despite the pandemic and the switch to online teaching, overall student numbers remained largely stable since the previous fall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Mitchell, the number of undergraduates enrolled this semester was just slightly below last fall\u2019s incoming figure, while enrollment in master\u2019s programs increased.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitchell called the numbers \u201ca remarkable achievement\u201d given the current situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that AUS has been able to achieve its best student retention rate since 2008, while also attracting more highly qualified incoming students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rand Al Atrash UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 While no decision has yet been made on what campus life will be like in spring, American University of Sharjah does not plan to expand current access given rising UAE pandemic numbers, Chancellor Kevin Mitchell wrote in an Oct. 25 email to faculty. \u201cThe recent rise in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,32,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}