Who's really at fault for campus coronavirus outbreaks?

Published Sep 25 2020 at 9:55 AM GMT

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, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and a host of local outlets.
But, while badly behaved students make good headlines and easy targets for self-righteous moralizing (and, while, without question, these young folks could be making better decisions), the students are not the real problem here.
The campus COVID crisis is largely a problem caused, or at the very least abetted, by school administrators.
And it further reveals an issue that those of us involved in the academy have known for some time: The folks who claim to be our society's foremost vendors of leadership are often glaringly devoid of it themselves.
Let us recall the situation over the summer as colleges finalized their plans to bring students back in the fall.