Show Caption Hide Caption College students returning to campus could drive surges of COVID cases Communal living spaces and a younger population may be a contributing factor to new surges in COVID-19 cases on college campuses. Faculty with the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors have pressed the university to expand its testing program and update new cases on a daily basis instead of weekly, plus report positive testing percentages and the number of students quarantined. In just the past few weeks, colleges such as North Carolina State, James Madison University and Temple University in Pennsylvania all started classes, only to ask their students to return home.