CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Southern Illinois University’s trustees have given the school’s president the authority to reimburse students for some costs as instruction has moved online due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The board of trustees met Monday in Carbondale to vote the authority to Southern Illinois President Daniel Mahony.

The board did not specify how the reimbursements should be handled. However, it gave Mahony the flexibility to make that determination in consultation with chancellors of the Carbondale and Edwardsville campuses and the dean of the school of medicine.

Mahony says he anticipates reimbursements to students could total between $4 million and $5 million.