Colleges that Reopen are Making a Big Mistake: Atlantic Article

[polly_mer]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/colleges-that-reopen-are-making-a-big-mistake/611485/ by the president of Paul Quinn College.

[Parasaurolophus]

The Atlantic is a big mistake.

Sounds about right, though.

[TreadingLife]

Some schools can do this.
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/05/18/campbell-u-provide-single-dorm-rooms

Some can't because they are too big.

Shockingly, one size doesn't fit all. But that's not clickbait, now is it?

[apl68]

But that's not clickbait, now is it?

Atlantic is worth reading, but they do have an addiction to clickbait headlines.  Their writers also sometimes give the impression of being far too impressed with their own cleverness/the cleverness of whoever did that fifteen-person study that they consider the definitive answer to a particular question of science or medicine or sociology or whatever.  Malcolm Gladwell is the quintessential Atlantic writer, even if he does usually publish in New Yorker.

[mamselle]

I have been appreciative of their most recent articles on truth-telling and the analysis of issues tied to recent events, however. They might be click-bait, as well, but they're decently written (I'm not having to say the correct word out loud so my internal editor can be unmuted, as one must with so many current articles) and they're more in-depth than many others.

I thought this one was particularly good:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/whats-south-koreas-secret/611215/

M.