Covid-19 Response: Evidence of How Higher Ed Can Be Completely Restructured?

[spork]

New York Times: As Colleges Move Classes Online, Families Rebel Against the Cost

[Durchlässigkeitsbeiwert]

New York Times: As Colleges Move Classes Online, Families Rebel Against the Cost

It is hard to commiserate when article starts with a story of an unhappy student, who gets to live in a $1200-a-month apartment rented by parents. The article continues on with stories of upper middle class "woes" using "prime rib" metaphors.
Without knowing the actual issues the article mostly glosses over, I would have reveled in my schadenfreude.

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Inside Higher Ed is reporting that the University of Iowa will eliminate its programs in men's gymnastics, men's and women's swimming and diving, and men's tennis because of a projected $100 million decline in athletics revenue.

I say eliminate all athletics and see what happens to the total university operations budget.

[dismalist]

Inside Higher Ed is reporting that the University of Iowa will eliminate its programs in men's gymnastics, men's and women's swimming and diving, and men's tennis because of a projected $100 million decline in athletics revenue.

I say eliminate all athletics and see what happens to the total university operations budget.

Aw, hell, Spork, I say do swimming and especially diving on-line! :-)

The on-line requirement is a path to unbundling, but, alas, it's reversible.

[FishProf]

Yup, gymnastics.  THAT is the NCAA money pit.....

[spork]

"the prioritization of Plexiglas over remote learning demonstrates a fundamental lack of imagination in higher education"

[apl68]

On-line diving.  Does that mean diving with a camera so that spectators online can come along for the ride?  Because that might actually be pretty exciting.

[FishProf]

My school just announced that there will be no more snow days.  If the campus is closed, you still meet your class online.

When asked about the f2f-only classes, the answer was - they need to teach online too.

I have a few faculty members who are balking, hard

[apl68]

I wonder how much longer snow days will even be a thing in our region?  Snow itself is rapidly becoming a thing of the past here.

[Parasaurolophus]

I wonder how much longer snow days will even be a thing in our region?  Snow itself is rapidly becoming a thing of the past here.

Yeah, I think they're goners. It's too bad, because they're one of the absolute joys of being a kid. But then again, there's hardly any snow where I live now to begin with. Freezing rain days aren't anything like as fun for anyone as snow days are/were.

Regions that get lots of snow usually bet on a certain number of snow days in the schedule, though, so I'm not sure how or whether they'll adjust that.

[spork]

My school just announced that there will be no more snow days.  If the campus is closed, you still meet your class online.

When asked about the f2f-only classes, the answer was - they need to teach online too.

I have a few faculty members who are balking, hard

By f2f-only, do you mean courses like science labs?

[FishProf]

My school just announced that there will be no more snow days.  If the campus is closed, you still meet your class online.

When asked about the f2f-only classes, the answer was - they need to teach online too.

I have a few faculty members who are balking, hard

By f2f-only, do you mean courses like science labs?

Some, yes.  But also f2f lecture-only classes.

[apl68]

Regions that get lots of snow usually bet on a certain number of snow days in the schedule, though, so I'm not sure how or whether they'll adjust that.

It's going to be a challenge.  I've seen projections that for the next couple of decades regions that still get a lot of snow will have wild swings between very little snow one year and exceptionally severe snowfalls the next.  Then in the following decades it will peter out altogether, like we're seeing now farther south.

So in the near term some places might be seeing no snow days at all one year, then a bunch of them the next, then maybe one or two after that. 

[FishProf]

Because there is always an appropriate XKCD

[Caracal]

I wonder how much longer snow days will even be a thing in our region?  Snow itself is rapidly becoming a thing of the past here.

Yeah, I think they're goners. It's too bad, because they're one of the absolute joys of being a kid. But then again, there's hardly any snow where I live now to begin with. Freezing rain days aren't anything like as fun for anyone as snow days are/were.

Regions that get lots of snow usually bet on a certain number of snow days in the schedule, though, so I'm not sure how or whether they'll adjust that.

In general, climate change isn't going to result in less snow. In fact, it might result in more, at least as far as I understand it. I'm sure it might vary by local area, but we should actually expect more extreme weather of all kinds.