Yes. His number was based on no classrooms and being permanently online.
I’ll just be glad to save a few thousand on housing costs for fall semester if things go online…!
The thing I think will suffer most are the programs that require laboratories and the like. I wonder how they will do that IF fall semester ends up being online classes.
Williams just announced at 15 percent reduction in tuition due to COVID and also will allow students back on campus.
I am guessing they are dipping into endowment or had a special fundraiser to make up the difference.
As with so many businesses, many costs for the universities have not dropped, and some have increased. And, like all of us, they don’t know when they will need to speed back up again.
Moving to online - in jig time- was a huge push, and a lot of improvisation was required. Students should have a reasonable expectation that the overall quality of the online learning experience will be better this fall than in they had this spring. Both the professors and universities are investing time and money into reworking curricula, course structures, technology, etc. Creating quality online teaching tools takes a LOT of work, and most of my prof pals have been working flat out trying to figure out how to do just that.
Obviously, the Duke freshman experience won’t be what the poster dreamed of- and that’s crummy. But then, so is all of Covid. It’s not as though the admin and faculty of the universities have any better idea than the rest of us as to how things are going to play out! There is no “right” or clear answer here.
So, when things go all topsy-turvy everybody has to go back to basics: what is the baseline reason for going to college? to this specific college? what % of those reasons still hold up? what are the pros & cons of the alternatives? And then make your own call. Grieve & rage over the raw deal- fair enough, students at every level from preschool to gradschool are paying a really heavy price for the pandemic. But then take stock of what your priorities are, and what path will get you closest to achieving them.
DS has been getting postcards in the mail from regional schools offering a big tuition cut to take an online semester with them.
tuition is still full price for a lot of colleges including my own, i go to a strong engineering school so we’re all concerned abt lab classes and such if we go entirely online