EAST LANSING, Mich. — As difficult a job as it’s going to be to keep K-12 students safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, imagine having to worry about more than 40,000 students on a large college campus.
Michigan State University is making plans to isolate anyone diagnosed with the coronavirus. With as many people as there are on the MSU campus, the university has to prepare for the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak.
That’s why Akers Hall, a dormitory building at 908 Akers Road, is being converted into an isolation dorm. Students who were planning to live there found out last week they’ll be moving.
That’s been a huge job for MSU Residence Education and Housing Services.
It’s had to rearrange more than 30 percent of the student body in time for them to start moving into dorms Aug. 27.
“Akers has a unique layout,” Residential and Hospitality Services spokesperson Kat Cooper said. “It’s a fairly self-contained building. Besides that, they have a self-contained bathroom. It gives us an option that if we have a student and a roommate who we need to move into that location, they could stay together because there are two bedrooms.”
The housing office said its working to honor roommate requests as best as possible. It’s no longer accepting new dorm requests.
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