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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm genuinely not sure why people are skeptical about colleges announcing they'll reopen. They'd take such a huge financial hit if they didn't it seems inevitable.[/quote]
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Perhaps because they will take an even bigger hit if they bring everyone back and then they have to shut again four weeks later ..[/b]...[/quote]

Poster in bold is right. Colleges have to plan with more care and more creativity than just "Throw open the doors this fall as usual" as some PPs seem to want. There's more to the equation of reopening. It will be a far worse look for colleges if they reopen as normal, then have an outbreak on campus, or the area in which they're located has an outbreak and ends up closing nonessential businesses, issuing stay at home orders etc. and otherwise curtailing everything around a college.

A cycle of open-closed repeating itself, or a cycle of outbreaks even if small ones, could potentially be a bigger hit to students' and parents' confidence than the current complete closures. And that confidence does matter because if parents and students lose it, they will pull out of colleges and the financial situations will only worsen.

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