I assumed this must mean Albany State, the closest SUNY campus. My good friend got her Masters Degree from there this past year, but she had no in-person graduation, after weeks of remote classes, her diploma was sent via the mail. And from what we've seen, nothing's changed since then, I'm amazed that any schools or colleges are opening at all.
And I've been to college, students hardly live in isolation. Aside from classes with different groups of students, they're in and out of each others' living spaces all the time - not just friends or boy and girlfriends, but lab partners, study groups, play rehearsals, all manner of campus activities. That's what college is all about.
Out of curiously, I looked up the website for my elementary school and the protocol for their school year - set to open the second week of the month - is so complicated that it gave me a headache. In-school classes combined with virtual classes, daily health screenings, having meals in the classroom. And having worked with young kids myself, I can't imagine successfully enforcing "social distancing," under "normal" circumstances the early grades are one big petri dish. Did we learn nothing from what happened in Israel when they attempted to open schools at the height of this pandemic?? 
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