I wonder how much of this is to get them an on-campus degree for an online rate.
More, I am thinking it might be a way to give the students what they want, which is a four-year party club, while isolating the instructors, who are often older, from the virus. I think this could be a good and important model, in that we want that herd immunity and delay while treatments are finetuned. I take it this school has been very successful in pioneering in cost-effective online classes. That means among other things they should have more of a financial warchest than other colleges in their market—and they and their faculty should be better at delivering online learning that appeals to students.
You know, moving to online degrees might just weed out the party crowd from the students who actually want to learn. There’s no party anymore. No dorms with 500 kids, booze, scantily clad girls, nothing but distractions. We might end up with fewer college grads, but higher quality grads. That would be a good thing.