Nope (the voice of Michigan). They have millions in football revenue just from TV /cable rights. Does this have something to do with it? ?.
Plus they are a highly organized bunch and have research to back up their plan (please don’t hassle me on this). Their hospital is like #5 in the world. They have their own ID experts that are renowned plus the states. Trust me, I was pleasantly surprised they are going all in. Large endowment helps (please don’t give me the per student amounts again,not relevant here).
Plus the governor is tough. She can shut down this plan in a heart beat.
As a side note my daughter’s Lac is going back and many schools have looked at their plan since it’s a different take. Even these lacs your speaking about should of been able to implement.
So let’s talk about something slightly different and not mention a Lac for a bit or be sarcastic etc. ?.
My niece who is a sophomore at Michigan State University, who did fantastic last year, was contemplating going to Wayne State or Oakland University since covid was affected income for her family. She found out that all but one class will be online and she will drive (about an hour) to State for that one class. This greatly reduces the financial burden for them for now. She is very happy about this and is really not a sports fan (so sad). I am happy for her since she has pulled all As and I didn’t think switching was a great idea for her.
So, how about it!!? A positive story about staying home and classes going online!? ?.
One thing we know is schools can not or will not spend that endowment money to make it work for the students. Maybe the one with the massive endowments like Harvard will, but the ones with a few measly billions won’t.
So schools with everyone living in the dorm feel they can’t bring everyone back, but the schools with 75% of their students living off campus seem ready to welcome all students back. Are we supposed to believe the off campus students will follow the rules better than the on campus students?
Bowdoin’s President is quoted as saying their plan was the most expensive option for them. It’s not that they couldn’t “get kids back on campus”. They chose this direction because it’s what they think is best for the health of the faculty and students and the best they can do academically within the constraints of the virus
@silverpurple- I can not speak for Ny but in NJ, the state makes the plans and the local school districts work their plan around the state guidelines, I know my school district in NJ has about 6,000 kids and has multi plans made up but they admit until the states gives them the guidelines they are just guessing.
Agree. But honestly they could live anywhere. S19’s friend group is from all over the country. They could get a house in Utah or South Carolina or Oregon. It’s really just to be together.
@fretfulmother hoping that a kid can return to campus in the fall in no way indicates one doesn’t take this virus seriously. It also doesn’t mean that one doesn’t enjoy the extra “bonding time ” with one’s kid. Good grief.
Colleges use their endowments all the time to help fund their annual operating budgets. For example, 35% of Harvard’s operating expenses are paid for from the endowment.
No reason some of these well endowed colleges can’t use some of the substantial gains they have achieved the past decade to help out during a pandemic.
(I know they aren’t directly comparable, I’m referring to the fact that Disneyland announced it was opening, and now just announced the opening was postponed).
The situation is constantly evolving. Today’s plans may not work well in a few months.
No, what it does mean is that the college won’t have all those sick students mucking up their dorms. It could come down to how many sick people they feel they can manage at any given time.
If some schools have enough singles for everyone, at least they can more easily isolate the sick if it comes to that.
That’s not a fair response to me; I was replying to someone generalizing that all parents want the student out of the house for the fall. I replied that some of us fall on the other side of the decision for my two reasons.
Leigh22 wrote: » @theloniusmonk sorry, I thought it was obvious I was addressing the folks I’ve been having a discussion with in this thread for three months.
To rephrase, it seems most of us here in this discussion would prefer our students go to campus.
You were replying to me @fretfulmother and really misconstruing my words.
I’m actually in the camp of leaning towards wanting my kid staying home in the fall.
But I’d prefer the situation was such that this wasn’t the case.
In that case, you and I probably have a lot of common ground. If you mean that we would “prefer our students go to campus” in a situation where no pandemic is going on and we’re fulfilling our plans of a year ago - then you get no argument from me. But you also must have seen posters who want their kids on campus even in the current situation, which I assumed from the context.
Less control and less responsibility for colleges that are not landlords and restaurants to most of their students means that they can offer in-person and distance education at each student’s choice, rather than forcing all or large groups of students into the same choice that they definitely do not all agree with.
Of course, not all such colleges do so. The CSUs in California will be mainly distance education this coming academic year.
@fretfulmother No; they said “most” do. And it does seem that the majority on this thread do want them going back even if it means taking on the risk during a pandemic, even though there are a great number (including yourself) who disagree.