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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a money thing.

Brown's President spoke this week about the SERIOUS financial difficulty facing schools this Fall.

https://www.wpri.com/news/education/colleges-could-permanently-close-if-they-dont-reopen-this-fall-brown-u-president-warns/

“Even before the coronavirus pandemic there were predictions that large numbers of universities and colleges would have to close for financial reasons in the coming decade,” Paxson said in a Zoom interview Sunday evening. “A lot of them were teetering on the brink financially, and this is the kind of thing that if a university or a small college has to go an entire semester without tuition, room and board, I don’t see how they make it.”

I'm not sure Brown is hurting but there are certainly some smaller schools that might find themselves in trouble with Fall's revenue.

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Actually, the smaller private schools may be less in danger as they have smaller numbers to fill, smaller budgets to cover and more control over adapting to the virus.  I'm most worried about the mid-sized/larger schools that got beyond their skis in the competitive college arms race and the non-flagship public colleges in states with no funds to bail them out. [/quote]I think all schools will face different challenges, but yeah I'd probably be most worried if I were Ohio State.[/quote]

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