No parties. No sports. How Oberlin College is surviving the pandemic.

This spring semester, over a quarter of U.S. colleges are open for in-person instruction. Among them is Oberlin, a small liberal arts school whose doors shuttered on March 16, 2020, and reopened — with lots of new rules — in August 2020. Oberlin’s president, Carmen Twillie Ambar, said it was “all about balancing risk.”