What about kids who live off-campus? Rent is still due but you suddenly are paying for an apartment that you might not even be about to sub-let for 6 months! This is a wake-up call to artificial nature of today's average college education. It's a racket. Pure and simple. If you can do Harvard online now, why pay for the Cambridge experience? The college liberal faculties should take this as a warning because if you can't brainwash kids in a classroom, the whole propaganda model shifts and the indoctrination game just isn't the same.
Great news for the snowflakes. They can go home to their basement bedrooms.
If this emergency move to all on-line courses proves to be just as effective in most cases as the in-person classes, why do we need brick-and-mortar universities? The universities might be providing the rope to hang themselves. Years ago, I saw a few visionaries talking about the potential victims of a move to on-line commerce and one that was mentioned was universities, particularly smaller state universities and community colleges. Initially defensive about the idea, I realized that it had some merit. This might be the opening that makes the taxpayers see the same thing.
I'm a tenured professor in a real discipline at a large state school but I can see that the traditional university model is antiquated and probably dying off. (I'm somewhat indifferent - I have one foot retirement already, so changes won't really affect me.)