A List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall
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A List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall
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#2Many college towns and rental properties relying on student income will be devastated.
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#3tl;dr: Basically everyone will decide this summer.
Re: A List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall
#4Many college towns and rental properties relying on student income will be devastated.
Permanently, too, if this causes a paradigm shift and virtual learning becomes the norm. Beyond the crisis, colleges were already planning on declining enrollment due to demographic shifts. Real estate in exclusively college towns, dependent on collegiate rentals, will be seeing long term changes regardless.
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#5I feel bad for the colleges. But anyone in their right mind that's going to college to learn things will take a gap year.
Those going to college just for the paper are well advised to keep going. The next couple of years will be easy mode, for sure. You get an A, and you get an A--everyone gets an A!
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#6Many college towns and rental properties relying on student income will be devastated.
Forgive me, but I find it a bit hard to be sympathetic in a broad sense to the organizations that make their money from rental income.
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#7Many college towns and rental properties relying on student income will be devastated.
Permanently, too, if this causes a paradigm shift and virtual learning becomes the norm. Beyond the crisis, colleges were already planning on declining enrollment due to demographic shifts. Real estate in exclusively college towns, dependent on collegiate rentals, will be seeing long term changes regardless.
I don't believe virtual learning will be widely used long-term. I might be biased, coming from a mostly engineering school, but there is a lot of vital lab equipment needed for the curriculum, not to mention that social networking and connections are essential to most careers going forward, and I don't see that transferring over in the same way
Re: A List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall
#8tl;dr: Basically everyone will decide this summer.
They'll decide again when they have an outbreak in a dorm or when a few faculty members die. It's hard to imagine that presence instruction will be back in the fall.
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#9Many college towns and rental properties relying on student income will be devastated.
Forgive me, but I find it a bit hard to be sympathetic in a broad sense to the organizations that make their money from rental income.
As someone who has made an effort to build a connection with my landlords, being a landlord is not in any way an easy job.
Good landlords spend an immense amount of time on maintaining their properties and making sure that their renters have all their needs tended to.
This is doubly so in a rural university town where the seasonally renting(2/3rds of the year) population is anywhere from 10 to 30 times the size of the permanent residents in the surrounding area.
Also more generally, the lack of university students in these rural university towns could potentially cripple the local economy for a long time. Many of the local businesses are only able to sustain themselves with the income they receive during the Fall and Spring semesters.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Permanently, too, if this causes a paradigm shift and virtual learning becomes the norm. Beyond the crisis, colleges were already planning on declining enrollment due to demographic shifts. Real estate in exclusively college towns, dependent on collegiate rentals, will be seeing long term changes regardless.
I don't believe virtual learning will be widely used long-term. I might be biased, coming from a mostly engineering school, but there is a lot of vital lab equipment needed for the curriculum, not to mention that social networking and connections are essential to most careers going forward, and I don't see that transferring over in the same way
I’d be happy if this was the beginning of the end for humanities departments that have become overtly political. More resources should be shifted to more utilitarian degrees like engineering and hard sciences.