{"id":194744,"date":"2020-03-20T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194744"},"modified":"2020-03-21T00:27:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T05:27:26","slug":"vcsu-moves-to-all-online-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194744","title":{"rendered":"VCSU moves to all online instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsu.edu\/news\/10829\/vcsu-to-move-online-for-remainder-of-semester\">VCSU)<\/a>\u00a0 Valley City State University has moved all academic instruction online for the spring semester of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>VCSU President Alan LaFave said in light of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and the need to respond decisively for the health safety of its constituents, the decision was made to not bring students back to campus for the remainder of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision has been a difficult one,\u201d said President Alan LaFave, \u201cbut we cannot place our community at risk. We\u2019re also confident that we can deliver excellent, effective academic instruction from a distance. Our similar experience during the Sheyenne River flood of 2009 and the success of our current online undergraduate and graduate programs have provided us with the technological tools, skills and aptitude to make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 Valley City State University has moved all academic instruction online for the spring semester of 2020. VCSU President Alan LaFave said in light of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and the need to respond decisively for the health safety of its constituents, the decision was made to not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194746,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194744\/revisions\/194746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}