Posted on 04/22/2020 5:36:32 AM PDT by karpov
Colleges across the country are trying to decide whether they can reopen campus for the fall, and how long they can put off a final decision.
Schools are mapping out different scenarios, depending on the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic in the fall. Boston University, for example, has said that if the virus is still raging, it may not return to face-to-face instruction until January 2021. Another scenario projects some students on campus in the fall, and others taking classes remotely.
“We need to do the planning so whatever comes we’re ready, so parents have a level of confidence students will be safe,” said BU President Robert Brown.
College campuses almost couldn’t be set up much worse for the coronavirus. They are built on the idea of lots of people living and learning in close quarters and gathering in large groups—all measures that work against any social distancing needed to fight the spread of the pandemic.
“Opening isn’t going to be an event, it will be a process, it will take a couple of years to find a new normal,” said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher-education advocacy group that estimates the number of students on campus will decline by 15%, leading to $23 billion in lost revenue.
The pandemic sent colleges scrambling. They urged students to return home in a rush in March, with some never even coming back from spring break and leaving belongings in their dorm rooms.
The transition to remote learning has been jarring. Schools moved hundreds of thousands of courses online in a matter of weeks. The results are uneven. Students have filed class-action suits against at least two schools for failing to reimburse them for tuition, fees, and room and board.
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As long as the SEC and the ACC play football, then the academics can be executed however it makers the most sense.
;-)
Depends on the course of the pandemic ..
Snort.
Something tells me next Fall college will be a luxury for only the wealthy. The Universities will have to survive on their endowments for a while. We can only hope internet learning can supply our country with those necessary to maintain our technology and the “Gender Studies” will wither away as foolish larks of a time gone by. Social Virtue will turn out to be a foolish excess we can no longer afford.
There damn well better be.
Gonna be mighty difficult for the technical colleges as most instruction is hands-on.
LOL.... haven’t seen one of those in a while.
Darling Daughter starts at Drexel this fall studying Biomedical Engineering. No idea how that's going to work.....
Congratulations
And most of the online instruction is taught by people with no concept of the English language (i.e. Indians) with absolutely atrocious presentation skills. At least provide a transcript or have true closed-captioning so I don’t have to hear their voice that I can barely understand - it’s more like the chalk screeching on an old blackboard. Private online education, through the use of Lynda, Packt Publishing (their non-Indian authored books are quite good in some areas, videos not so good as the presenter is more often than not, Indian) etc are not the way to go. The free online classes from universities are good if not taught by Indians (they seem to have cornered the market in a lot of cases)
I was going to start at a technical college May 11. On hold due to Newsome’s lockdown.
Hard to teach audio, film and animation (games development is ok) online.
Not every student has access to audio consoles, green screen rooms and render farms.
One of my uncles had that game.
Different teams.
I haven’t seen it since the mid-80s. Zero idea of where it is or survived at all.
It was fun to watch. I got more out of the little game than from the real ones on TV.
LOL!
The time to sign that lease for an off campus apartment is now.
People are going to be looking for alternatives to the dormitories. Suddenly that studio apartment is looking like a much healthier alternative.
Operating dorms and cafeterias with students far from home is likely the biggest problem for Colleges, since illness can spread like on a cruise ship. Since Colleges can’t care for students who get sick and quarantined students would not be allowed to travel home, living on campus might be what separates those that can hold classes from those that can’t.
I suspect that community colleges, commuter colleges, and public universities that can serve students living at home will find ways operate.
My daughter teaches Neuroscience at Liberty U online from far, far away.
If colleges tell their students that they must suffer another semester of online education from home, I predict a lot of those students will take a gap year and college enrollment will plummet.
If in-person classes are cancelled and you take classes online, you are stuck paying the lease.
“And most of the online instruction is taught by people with no concept of the English language (i.e. Indians) with absolutely atrocious presentation skills.”
Most likely a result of H1-B’s I suspect.
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