Universities are nothing more than Marxist indoctrination centers now.
By shutting them down and forcing students to seek out alternative educational opportunities online, and, hopefully, opening their minds, the Wuhan flu may result in something beneficial.
Administrators want to keep enrollment numbers up. Adjuncts and tenure-track (untenured) faculty are especially vulnerable if they get low scores on student evaluations, so it is risky to be a demanding grader. There are pressures not to flunk too many students, so standards have to be lowered to accommodate students who don't think they need to study. A student can still get a good education if he or she wants one, but I think it is easier to get by with passing grades than it used to be.