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Started by theblackbox, July 16, 2020, 08:54:32 AM

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polly_mer

Quote from: spork on August 18, 2020, 10:17:47 AM
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
Quote from: hmaria1609 on June 27, 2019, 07:07:43 PM
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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
Quote from: hmaria1609 on June 27, 2019, 07:07:43 PM
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Hibush

Quote from: polly_mer on August 19, 2020, 07:23:48 AM
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

Quote from: Hibush on August 19, 2020, 07:28:29 AM
Quote from: polly_mer on August 19, 2020, 07:23:48 AM
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.
Quote from: hmaria1609 on June 27, 2019, 07:07:43 PM
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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.
Quote from: hmaria1609 on June 27, 2019, 07:07:43 PM
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Parasaurolophus

Quote from: polly_mer on August 19, 2020, 05:42:51 PM
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.
I know it's a genus.

Hibush

Quote from: polly_mer on August 19, 2020, 05:42:51 PM
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

It's terrible writing, used to obfuscate the fact that the authors actually have nothing to say.

polly_mer

Quote from: Hibush on August 21, 2020, 09:11:46 AM
Quote from: polly_mer on August 19, 2020, 05:42:51 PM
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.
Quote from: hmaria1609 on June 27, 2019, 07:07:43 PM
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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

Quote from: hmaria1609 on June 27, 2019, 07:07:43 PM
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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

Quote from: hmaria1609 on June 27, 2019, 07:07:43 PM
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Caracal

Quote from: TreadingLife on August 23, 2020, 02:38:03 PM
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.