That’s because colleges face the same dilemma as retail stores in large malls; the 21st century has arrived and a retail College environment built in the 15th (???) century needs to adapt.
“That’s because colleges face the same dilemma as retail stores in large malls; the 21st century has arrived and a retail College environment built in the 15th (???) century needs to adapt.”
I believe we are on the cusp of a revolution in terms of higher education, but I don’t see colleges going away because of the face to face opportunity it brings to students, and the social element of the student life.
The alternative would be similar to socialized medicine - lack of doctors because of lack of money/opportunity, just as I suspect a dearth of professors due to similar circumstances if we were to go online/remote only. Then we’d have to subsidize them in order to keep them.
Academic research money is the largest draw in professorship from what I can tell.