List of Colleges officially online for Fall 2020

[polly_mer]

Ithaca College

The president of Ithaca College points out that bringing people to campus only to send them home is unnecessarily disruptive: https://ithacavoice.com/2020/08/ithaca-college-moving-to-online-instruction-for-the-fall-semester/

Other articles on college this fall point out that bring students to campus from all over for exposure to the illness and then sending them back all over is irresponsible.  One example is https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/opinions/unc-coronavirus-and-colleges-reopening-perry/index.html

[polly_mer]

Matt Reed at IHE makes the case for avoiding a midsemester pivot, even if some magic occurs and the campus could reopen: https://insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/if-you-start-online-finish-online

[Hibush]

Matt Reed at IHE makes the case for avoiding a midsemester pivot, even if some magic occurs and the campus could reopen: https://insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/if-you-start-online-finish-online

A public community college can certainly make this call with confidence. A financially precarious private LAC may not be back for the spring if it does. That makes the decision more difficult, especially with the alternative outcome being kept out of the conversation.

[polly_mer]

Matt Reed at IHE makes the case for avoiding a midsemester pivot, even if some magic occurs and the campus could reopen: https://insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/if-you-start-online-finish-online

A public community college can certainly make this call with confidence. A financially precarious private LAC may not be back for the spring if it does. That makes the decision more difficult, especially with the alternative outcome being kept out of the conversation.

That financially precarious private probably isn't going to make it to next fall regardless of what it does.

[polly_mer]

There's a Twitter thread on the finances of the academipocalypse that might interest folks here: https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1295909929228873728

The main posts are by a University of North Carolina history professor who has clearly put real thought and research into this.

[Parasaurolophus]

There's a Twitter thread on the finances of the academipocalypse that might interest folks here: https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1295909929228873728

The main posts are by a University of North Carolina history professor who has clearly put real thought and research into this.

That was fun and educational. Thanks.

[Hibush]

There's a Twitter thread on the finances of the academipocalypse that might interest folks here: https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1295909929228873728

The main posts are by a University of North Carolina history professor who has clearly put real thought and research into this.

One of his points is that to get the best students, schools have been selling the experience, the extracurriculars, rather than the education. He mentions that because the value proposition fails if you go online. But one can take that to conclude that  extolling the virtues of Las Cruces will bring better students to NMSU than extolling the virtues of the faculty.

[spork]

Drexel University

LaSalle University

[polly_mer]

There's a Twitter thread on the finances of the academipocalypse that might interest folks here: https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1295909929228873728

The main posts are by a University of North Carolina history professor who has clearly put real thought and research into this.

One of his points is that to get the best students, schools have been selling the experience, the extracurriculars, rather than the education. He mentions that because the value proposition fails if you go online. But one can take that to conclude that  extolling the virtues of Las Cruces will bring better students to NMSU than extolling the virtues of the faculty.

Extolling the virtues of Las Cruces when El Paso is right there with a better university and much more big city amenities, UNM has a wider variety of everything including a bigger city for only a little more in-state tuition, and several other in-state colleges are cheaper with a better small-school-personalized experience means NMSU has a serious PR gap to overcome.

I can't think of any amenities on which NMSU wins except proximity if being on the right side of the NM/TX border matters.

The good students who are thinking about their peer interactions are not likely to be choosing NMSU.  Those are exactly the students who are likely to be looking nationally and possibly picking a good SLAC over an OK R2.

[the_geneticist]

The UC campuses (9 total) are mostly online, with only a few in-person classes.  Exactly what that looks like varies by campus.
https://edsource.org/2020/university-of-california-campuses-plan-to-offer-most-classes-online-this-fall/633991

[polly_mer]

McSweeneys (a comedy site) has a college president's upbeat letter on phase two of the semester: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-successful-return-to-campus-an-update-from-your-university-president

[TreadingLife]

Towson takes the Notre Dame Hail Mary approach, except Towson is hoping for a miracle in a week.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/us/towson-university-covid-trnd/index.html

[TreadingLife]

East Carolina University (ECU) has become the latest public North Carolina college to abruptly switch to online-only learning after the first two weeks of in-person classes resulted in multiple COVID-19 clusters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/third-north-carolina-college-announces-remote-learning-after-covid-clusters-from-first-two-weeks-of-classes/ar-BB18hIiD?li=BBnb7Kz

[polly_mer]

Towson takes the Notre Dame Hail Mary approach, except Towson is hoping for a miracle in a week.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/us/towson-university-covid-trnd/index.html

https://www.towson.edu/budgetoffice/documents/fy20-operating-budget-and-plan-final.pdf indicates auxiliary services as a quarter of the revenue before COVID.

[Caracal]

East Carolina University (ECU) has become the latest public North Carolina college to abruptly switch to online-only learning after the first two weeks of in-person classes resulted in multiple COVID-19 clusters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/third-north-carolina-college-announces-remote-learning-after-covid-clusters-from-first-two-weeks-of-classes/ar-BB18hIiD?li=BBnb7Kz

UNC-Charlotte has "delayed" in person classes till October.