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SEC
Alabama – President Dr. Stuart Bell: “As we look forward to accomplishing another great fall semester welcoming back students and welcoming back our sports teams to be able to have competition. Those are our plans and it’s a high bar and anticipates that we will be able to meet that.”

Georgia – President Jere Morehead: “Our expectation at this point is that we’ll have a normal football season and be able to play all of our games … Certainly our hope and expectation is that we’ll have fans in stands, and we hope that we’ll have our players here at some point during the month of July.”

Kentucky – President Eli Capilouto: “We plan to open in August for our Fall semester.”

LSU – Interim President Tom Galligan: “We are absolutely planning on being open in the fall”

Missouri – Interim Chancellor Mun Y. Choi: “In consultation with public health officials and Mizzou’s own health care experts, we are developing plans for our return to campus within a “new normal” that we expect will be necessary.”

Texas A&M – “Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp told all 11 university presidents in the system that they will reopen their campuses next school year and be ready to play sports, a university system official confirmed to The Texas Tribune.”

Big Ten
Illinois – Director of Undergraduate Admissions Andy Borst: “We are planning for in-person classes to begin as scheduled.”

Iowa – “We’re ever so hopeful that this virus will be behind us at that point, and we’ll be able to get back to what we normally would do,” University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld told the Board of Regents on Thursday. “Right now, June 1 is the date we’re going to get back to [football] practice.”

Purdue – President Mitch Daniels: “I can tell you for the moment, there is strong, strong interest for a Purdue education for this fall … We have every intention of being on campus this fall. We are sober about the challenges that will bring. We believe in the value of the on-campus experience, and we’re determined, if we’re permitted to do so by the public authorities and medical circumstances. If at all possible, we intend to be open and operating.