{"id":28766,"date":"2020-08-12T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T14:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/08\/12\/air-force-academy-begins-coronavirus-distanced-classes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:48:54","slug":"air-force-academy-begins-coronavirus-distanced-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2020\/08\/12\/air-force-academy-begins-coronavirus-distanced-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Academy begins coronavirus-distanced classes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Air Force Academy<\/a> in Colorado Springs, Colorado, began classes for this academic year Wednesday, with a number of changes to reduce the exposure of cadets, faculty and staff to the coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire class of roughly 4,400 cadets has returned to the academy, and will be attending classes split roughly evenly between online and in-person lessons, academy spokesman Mike Slater said in an email Wednesday. Bringing about half the courses online will result in smaller in-person class sizes, Slater said, which will make it easier for cadets to socially distance when they gather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The academy also said July 23 that it would house 400 healthy students in off-campus hotels for at least the fall semester, to free up dorm space for quarantining and isolating cadets who have contracted or been exposed to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\t