If there is any good that can come out of this pandemic, it is that resources need to be husbanded and good management is necessary to keep these institutions afloat. Colleges must decide what is their primary/core mission and what is fluff. Esoteric courses and the politically correct must be measured against the survival of the institution. Waste must be eliminated.
I have long argued for minimum conventional classes and trust me the arrogance and resistance for cutting back on those is deep and strong. Telling professors that students want to get in, get trained in a trade or medical profession and get to work sends them into orbit. “I’m not here to train people to work, I’m an educator!” is the usual response. I keep telling them the technical side is where they can stay solvent and that someone in a medical profession at best needs a writing class to write and communicate I their job, they need a public speaking class in the long run it will be helpful and a basic math class matched to their technical professions needs.
The faculty’s heads explode upon me saying that! I tell them if you keep your technical/medical classes full you will get enough left over to do some of your traditional classes. We got hammered in 2015 with the worst budget cut and a new governor telling us he wanted technical/medical programs offered in the community colleges. What did the president of the system do in response, he told the presidents to cut technical/medical programs immediately. Our college closed a respiratory program and a funeral director program, both of which had 30 max-students ever semester. Which meant a solid revenue stream gone. Five years later they are trying to bring back the respiratory program, duh!
The entrenched traditional administrations and professors are stuck in 1989...