The College of New Jersey joined Morehouse Higher education and Bowdoin College on Friday in canceling selected fall athletics.

The Division III school’s president produced the announcement that, for the reason that of the novel coronavirus pandemic, all-superior get hold of sporting activities (soccer, soccer, discipline hockey, basketball, wrestling, rugby, dance and cheerleading) will be canceled. That’s not just the groups that characterize the university. It also involves club and intramural groups. Person workouts will be allowed.

“We know how crucial pursuits over and above the classroom are to the TCNJ instructional encounter and how central any particular exercise may possibly be to pupil retention and good results,” president Kathryn A. Foster wrote. “Student activities enliven the campus and provide fantastic pleasure to neighborhood members and people. Regrettably, but essentially, and in alignment with our rationale and steps in instruction, household instruction, and other functions, I have made a decision that for health and fitness and safety reasons we will restrict the menu of in-individual scholar pursuits this slide to lower human density and lower in-man or woman make contact with or proximity things to do only.”

Division III Bowdoin School in Maine has now canceled all fall sports activities even though Division II Morehouse College or university in Atlanta has canceled soccer and cross nation. No Division I university has yet to make a plunge into reducing fall sporting activities.