In order to hold an in-person class under Santa Clara Country health regulations, students will need to be masked and sitting six feet apart. I've seen the studies on my campus that show a typical classroom that normally can hold 45 will only be able to hold 12.
My guess is that face to face instruction will be limited to labs, seminars, graduate courses, and other fairly small groups while nearly all lecture courses will be online. I also would guess that the instructors for those in-person courses will also have a laptop in front of them with zoomed in students participating remotely--making it a kind of hybridization. That is the only way I can foresee half the students being on campus and half off campus and yet giving both equal access.
I should note that I have no particular knowledge about Stanford's plans other than what I read, but I have been close to the planning process at SJSU, and given that we are both under the same county health order I can't see a lot of difference other than the fact that Stanford has a lot more money and resources to implement its solutions.
By the way, if we are eventually allowed to watch indoor sports like volleyball and basketball, I would anticipate it would be with similar restrictions. Masks and 6 feet apart. Maples would probably be limited to 1000 people, there would probably be no concessions, and the lines to get in would be like grocery store lines are now--people standing on marks six feet apart. The TV experience would probably be superior. And since the planners know that, I doubt they will even try to do it. I'd anticipate sports being a broadcast-only sort of thing for some time to come. But we have seen that before--as when they play games in those Thanksgiving tournaments in out-of-the-way places, sometimes with attendance so low it almost seems they are socially distanced!
My guess is that face to face instruction will be limited to labs, seminars, graduate courses, and other fairly small groups while nearly all lecture courses will be online. I also would guess that the instructors for those in-person courses will also have a laptop in front of them with zoomed in students participating remotely--making it a kind of hybridization. That is the only way I can foresee half the students being on campus and half off campus and yet giving both equal access.
I should note that I have no particular knowledge about Stanford's plans other than what I read, but I have been close to the planning process at SJSU, and given that we are both under the same county health order I can't see a lot of difference other than the fact that Stanford has a lot more money and resources to implement its solutions.
By the way, if we are eventually allowed to watch indoor sports like volleyball and basketball, I would anticipate it would be with similar restrictions. Masks and 6 feet apart. Maples would probably be limited to 1000 people, there would probably be no concessions, and the lines to get in would be like grocery store lines are now--people standing on marks six feet apart. The TV experience would probably be superior. And since the planners know that, I doubt they will even try to do it. I'd anticipate sports being a broadcast-only sort of thing for some time to come. But we have seen that before--as when they play games in those Thanksgiving tournaments in out-of-the-way places, sometimes with attendance so low it almost seems they are socially distanced!