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Why Mitch Daniels’ Determination To Reopen Purdue University This Fall Is A Brilliant Business Move
The Federalist ^ | April 29, 2020 | Joy Pullman

Posted on 04/29/2020 6:27:46 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/29/2020 6:27:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

So conducting business is a brilliant business move.

As opposed to not conducting business?


2 posted on 04/29/2020 6:29:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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I think most colleges are planning to open in the fall. At this point at least.


3 posted on 04/29/2020 6:33:05 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Mitch, do not wait till Fall. Do it now.


4 posted on 04/29/2020 6:41:23 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.)
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To: Brilliant

One issue is this: the “Karens” prefer to shelter in place for a long time, but on the other hand don’t want to pay $60K a year tuition for their children to attend online schools in the fall. I think online college classes are typically about $300 per class.

There may be some interesting changes ahead for colleges.


5 posted on 04/29/2020 6:50:16 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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If I were an incoming freshman at a university that had not yet declared they were opening in late August, I would take a gap year.

why pay full tuition, at a new school, for which you will only get online courses?


6 posted on 04/29/2020 6:51:16 AM PDT by PGR88
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Yes. My daughter decided to go back to school to get another degree. She’s a teacher and is looking to get a degree is some science. She can do it online at the University of Florida and use some of her prior courses to reduce her credit requirements. She figures it will cost her $4000. Can’t beat that. My son though is in CA. I suggested to him that he should see if they have similar deals at UC Berkeley and UCLA. Turns out they don’t. They haven’t made any changes yet despite protests by students. But they may yet.


7 posted on 04/29/2020 7:07:32 AM PDT by Brilliant
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I’ve got a high school senior son. He was accepted at a Virginia “Public Ivy” for the Fall. Out of state tuition is around $45,000 plus room, board, fees.

I’m not paying that much for him to sit in his room and do correspondence courses.

He will definitely be taking a gap year!


8 posted on 04/29/2020 7:20:39 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Kaslin

This is true leadership. Kudos to Mitch!

I hope many institutions of higher learning follow his example. And use the lean times to uproot any program, class, or instructor who has “Studies” in it’s title. But those pansies might self select to hide under their beds, and go extinct. They should be encouraged to do so.


9 posted on 04/29/2020 7:22:38 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Unredact the 99 Collyer Report!!!)
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To: Brilliant
I think most colleges are planning to open in the fall. At this point at least.

From what I've been told, my alma mater (Gonzaga) is planning on reopening in early September, as usual. It would not have been a problem when I was a student there, and the undergrad population was around 2000. Most of my classes had less than 30 students, and I'll never forget a macroeconomics class that was brutal...there were 5 students in that class. The professor took no prisoners, and God help you if you answered a question incorrectly. LOL, one of the best classes I ever took.

Enrollment is now upwards of 6000 (about the size of Allen High School...ahem), in large part to the success of our men's basketball program. At the time our run started, the university's president, Fr. Bob Spitzer, saw the marketing potential. Under his guidance, the school's endowment went from virtually zero to $150 million, and several new buildings were funded by donors.

Based on my experiences, the school has maintained much of the same family type atmosphere as when I attended. It's a very close knit community. My problem was I enjoyed the "Gonzaga Experience" a bit too much...lol.

10 posted on 04/29/2020 7:24:21 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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My son's a senior, too. He'll be attending a local cc for the next two years, maybe 3, and get his associate's first. He's got a terrible case of senioritis, compounded by the online "schooling" taking place.

I think the after action reports regarding online schooling will be declared a disaster. I expect the first third of my grandson's 4th grade year to consist of remedial instruction for what he missed the last few months of third grade.

I'm not blaming anyone, the educators and administration were dealt "aces and eights".

11 posted on 04/29/2020 7:30:21 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
So conducting business is a brilliant business move.
As opposed to not conducting business?


In the City of the Blind, a one-eyed man is king.
12 posted on 04/29/2020 7:52:32 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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This is a brilliant move. If you are a top notch senior HS student and Purdue is your only choice, it will influence your decision.


13 posted on 04/29/2020 7:55:28 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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Would Mitch have been a good POTUS?


14 posted on 04/29/2020 8:03:23 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: PGR88
Your suggestion of a gap year is an excellent one, for the vast majority of HS seniors. Only the best, most dedicated students will succeed under the current mode of online study. These students are likely to succeed under any condition.

It's bad enough that public high schools have not prepared students for 4 year colleges and universities. That has been the case for at least 50 years IMO. I still remember my first two weeks of college, nearly 50 years ago. I was terrified, seemed like everyone I met was in the top 1% of their class.

15 posted on 04/29/2020 8:39:26 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Mitch has just earned consideration for 2024.


16 posted on 04/29/2020 8:40:46 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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Only the best, most dedicated students will succeed under the current mode of online study. These students are likely to succeed under any condition.

My daughter is a 3rd year at university and her school seems to be trying hard to make “distance-learning” work. Particularly as you get deep into a major, everyone is learning that group interaction, specialization, hands-on training, etc… is very difficult to transfer on-line. Internships have stopped. Meetings with industry professionals have stopped. From what I would guess, I would say class work has been cut down 20-30% to allow for the on-line format (fewer projects, reduced office-hours with teacher, etc..) It works OK for now, because she already knows the professors, knows her classmates, class style and culture were in place since January, and they had formed into work and study groups before Coronavirus hit.

NONE of that would exist for an incoming freshman. As you point out, literally everything is new, and it would be extremely difficult to make the jump in expectations, work-needed and competition from others with a pure “on-line” format. Beyond that, they would lose the life-long, memory forming events of making new friends, going to the first homecoming game, etc….

17 posted on 04/29/2020 9:07:51 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Brilliant

I think most colleges are planning to open in the fall. At this point at least.

Cal State colleges even in counties/cities with minimal CV cases are still playing the waiting game.

Big East colleges are big ? marks, of course if your campuses are in or near NJ/NY, you might have reason to quiver and quake re to reopen or not!


18 posted on 04/29/2020 9:30:14 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Are the ChiComs/PRC, ESPN of America's, fake news media/CNN, Democrats, the real Deep Staters?)
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I'm torn as to whether my accounting degree would have been as complete with an online format. My situation was unique, in that I had the same professor for 30+ hours, and he never used numbers, teaching the theory behind every aspect of accounting. IOW, we got to know him very well.

OTOH, he had a wicked sense of humor that would never be employed with a virtual classroom. I was targeted on several occasions, as I was his only student (of 80) that was in ROTC. It was never personal, it was more poking fun at the waste found in government and the military. He had personal experience, having served in the Navy during WWII.

There was one episode that I dust off when asked "what was the experience like at Gonzaga?" During March Madness, I'm asked that when I'm at a sports bar by those that attended huge Power Conference schools. The usual response to my old, dusted off stories is "damn, my college experience was nothing like that."

A few of my buddies were ticked off at me, so they prepared a fake drop slip for all 3 of my accounting classes. They got the professor to give it to me after the first hour of our 3 hour long CPA review class. I took a look at it, and put it aside for after class.

It must have been torture for my friends, trying to stifle their laughter for two hours. Finally, the secret was out at the end of class...I thought it was great that the professor played along with it.

That drop slip remains in one of my photo albums from college.

Never would've happened in today's online world.

Sorry to digress, but here's one of my finest moments, academically. I knew I had aced the fall semester final exam in cost accounting. When we compared notes, I was the outlier with my answers. I wasn't the greatest of students, so my answers were met with skepticism.

When we returned for the spring semester, we were in the GU bookstore, when our professor entered. When he saw me, he walked up to me and said, "NHN, I want to shake your hand, I'm proud of you!" To say that jaws were dropping was an understatement.

I scored something like a 141/150 on the test. To put his scoring in perspective, he'd give a B+ for 90/150.

19 posted on 04/29/2020 9:34:21 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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My grandson is a senior and will be going to college in N.C. He was told the school has every intention of opening in the fall.


20 posted on 04/29/2020 9:36:50 AM PDT by surrey
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