The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted students, teachers, and their families worldwide and is also having far-reaching economic and societal consequences. This article reports on a survey taken about student attitudes toward distance education and the safety precautions universities can and should take to keep students safe when they return to campus. This article provides an analysis of student sentiment by student demographics of gender, race and ethnicity, age, academic discipline, and education level. A latent class model was used which identified 5 distinct groupings of students requesting various degrees of safety precautions being put in place.