walked into his weekly IT staff meeting at the University of Oklahoma on March 9, he was largely unprepared for what would follow. He had heard of coronavirus, but at the time, Oklahoma was still virtually untouched—only one case of COVID-19 had been confirmed in the state, and the first death wouldn’t be reported for almost a week. His boss, however, instructed Hopkins to accelerate training for Canvas, the online learning management system used by the university.
With the coronavirus upending the service model and the economics of universities across the country, it is not at all clear how flexible America’s higher education system will be in the face of high costs, institutional barriers to change, and a longstanding belief in the value of the way things are traditionally done. A professor at Columbia Business School once told me that “all businesses will be disrupted in the digital age,” but added with a self-satisfied smile, “except for us, of course.
, and tuition and fees associated with residential colleges are a primary and critical pillar of this educational economy. Administrators, faculty, staff, and housing providers, to name just a few, all have a stake in this enterprise.that more schools would begin to announce they’ll go online-only in the fall—after they receive a wave of tuition and housing deposits.
Boo Hoo... We'll cut back on the dummies coming out of these places.
America’s higher education system has to be reformed. There has been no control on tuition increases. It’s unfair and self destructive to saddle young Americans with heavy debt.
Oh no 😱 time for those professors and school administrators to take pay cuts on their $100,000+ salaries .... It’s time for a market correction within the higher education system that for too long has been charging outrageous prices for a subpar product.
Sounds like a for-profit college/predatory lending lobbyist wrote abt industry goals using some F up poll & analysis posing as news. Vultures are blowing up higher ed due to a lack of state & federal funding b4 & during Covid. And with a 45 admin policy attack on foreign students
In America, getting a degree and getting sick will bankrupt you
Everyone just needs to calm TF down and accept that the traditional model for legit everything is over. It will be okay.