Students will return to University Of Miami campus in August

FILE- In this Oct. 23, 2018, file photo, students walk on the campus of Miami Dade College, in Miami. The nine companies and organizations tasked with servicing the accounts of the nation’s 30 million student loan borrowers repeatedly failed to do their jobs properly over a period of years and their regulator neglected to hold them responsible, a new report finds. The report released Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, by the Department of Education’s independent Inspector General’s office shows some borrowers weren’t getting the guidance and protection they needed as they sought the best plan for paying off their student loans. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

The University of Miami has announced that students will return to campus in August.

The university said fall semester classes will begin Aug. 17, a week earlier than planned. The semester will end on Nov. 20, the Friday before Thanksgiving. Students will take finals remotely.

An update on the Fall 2020 semester: Fall classes will commence on campus on Monday, Aug. 17—one week earlier than originally planned—and on-campus instruction will conclude on Nov. 20—the Friday before Thanksgiving. pic.twitter.com/eWf2P39GZC

— University of Miami (@univmiami) June 15, 2020

The university will conduct deep cleaning of all campus spaces.

Students and faculty members must also undergo coronavirus screening and get the flu vaccine before returning to campus.

Students have not been allowed back on campus since March.

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