  {"id":1548,"date":"2020-09-03T20:41:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2020-10-28T13:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:17:30","slug":"jones-college-students-return-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-students-return-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ students return to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ students who want to meet in person for classes will be able to do so come Tuesday, September 8. The hybrid format allows students to meet in small groups that rotate based on an instructor assigned meeting pattern. Students enrolled in fall 2020 classes should check their Canvas course shell for face-to-face small group meeting assignments. All Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs will continue in small group meeting patterns after the Labor Day holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be great to have students back on campus. However, we want to remind everyone, our efforts to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus will continue. Face coverings are required on campus along with physical distancing protocols and daily health checks,\u201d said Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ President, Dr. Jesse Smith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nurse-class-ms-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1551 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nurse-class-ms-small-e1599164681758-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nurse-class-ms-small-e1599164681758-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nurse-class-ms-small-e1599164681758-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nurse-class-ms-small-e1599164681758-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nurse-class-ms-small-e1599164681758.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>All Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ students and employees are required to download \u201cPower Apps\u201d to complete their daily health checks. In addition to stopping at one of the 21-Health Stations across campus daily, including everyone meeting at the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ County Centers, temperature checks will be required for anyone accessing the campus in Fall 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is encouraging to see our students are not giving up on their educational goals and are committed to completing their degrees. Our enrollment has remained level, with 4,893 students enrolled. That is down by only four-one-hundredths of a percentage point from last fall. Students are also taking about the same number of credit hours to stay on track for completing their degrees with 65,136 credit hours being taken by our students,\u201d said Executive Vice President, Finee&#8217; Ruffin.<\/p>\n<p>When the fall semester began on August 10, all University-Parallel (academic) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ms-chase-elmore-and-ezra-sanders-programming-CNC-edit-and-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1550 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ms-chase-elmore-and-ezra-sanders-programming-CNC-edit-and-small-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ms-chase-elmore-and-ezra-sanders-programming-CNC-edit-and-small-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ms-chase-elmore-and-ezra-sanders-programming-CNC-edit-and-small-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ms-chase-elmore-and-ezra-sanders-programming-CNC-edit-and-small-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ms-chase-elmore-and-ezra-sanders-programming-CNC-edit-and-small.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>courses at Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ were taught completely online because of the high rates of the Covid-19 virus in the Pine Belt reported by the state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs. Smith said because the rate of infection has gone down because of everyone\u2019s diligent efforts, more students will now be able to come to campus for face-to-face classes.<\/p>\n<p>Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ is also offering 8-week classes beginning October 19, in addition to 4-week classes beginning November 16. Apply online at www.jcjc.edu\/apply.<\/p>\n<p>For a list of campus health screening stations or how to download the required app, visit https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/fallreturn\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ students who want to meet in person for classes will be able to do so come Tuesday, September 8. The hybrid format allows students to meet in small groups that rotate based on an instructor assigned meeting pattern. Students enrolled in fall 2020 classes should check their Canvas course shell for face-to-face &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-students-return-to-campus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ students return to campus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}