Anonymous wrote:You all realize that K-12 schools are ALSO making contingency plans for the fall and just not talking about it, right? I'm sure every single BOE has told it's superintendents to come up with plans.

Shhhh. Every time someone says this, they get shouted down.

Let people find out on their own. Some parent at our online PTA meeting was dumb enough to ask if school would be starting up earlier in the fall.

Denial runs deep.

You all realize that K-12 schools are ALSO making contingency plans for the fall and just not talking about it, right? I'm sure every single BOE has told it's superintendents to come up with plans.

Anonymous wrote:BU will open research labs (grant $$$) and grad school first (off campus housing and smaller classes, plus TAs to help with remote learning). Undergrad will be remote. If you don’t like it, you will likely still have to pay (hefty) fees to stay enrolled, but not tuition. They won’t offer freshman deferments or gap years. You will lose your spot and they will pull in waitlist.

College is a pay to play business.

As is only fair. There are waitlists and plenty of students and parents ready to fill the spot. We will, eventually come out of this. Plenty of students want to be poised to graduate on time and to pursue careers on time.

The article signifies nothing. It says "may" consider. All colleges are trying to figure out what to do. No one knows yet. All "may" be considering it

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for sharing. So will tuition be reduced or just room/board not charged? My HS senior is considering her choices now and I do not want to pay private school tuition for distance learning. I really hope colleges get that.

As it stands right now, schools are generally not charging for room and board. The tuition is the same price, either you want the class/degree, or you do not.

+1 they will not decrease tuition even if remote learning for a semester.

No reason to decrease tuition. Are the students going to take a year off? Even if some do, the demand for seats at most schools far exceeds the supply.

My sister is a professor at a local university and she said the possibility of no in-person classes until fall 2021 has been floated. They were told to make their fall 2020 curriculums be able to to be taught fully online if needed.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for sharing. So will tuition be reduced or just room/board not charged? My HS senior is considering her choices now and I do not want to pay private school tuition for distance learning. I really hope colleges get that.

As it stands right now, schools are generally not charging for room and board. The tuition is the same price, either you want the class/degree, or you do not.

+1 they will not decrease tuition even if remote learning for a semester.

At the university I teach at, taking online courses actually costs MORE because there is a distance ed fee tacked on to each course. I'm guessing it goes to support the salaries of the people in the office that handles distance learning (instructional designers and other IT support staff). It will be interesting to see if that fee is charged for all courses if we go all online in the fall. I imagine there would be a mutiny. Online courses overall cost the university much less so even the existing setup is a racket.

I know my university is bracing for at least a temporary drop in enrollment due to all this. Even if we open up in the fall there will be some percentage of students who don't feel safe or choose to take a gap year.

Please. I’m not paying 60k for the bloody university of Phoenix. Colleges need to get a clue.

Most colleges can switch to online learning just fine not only for now but in general. The online colleges exist for solid 20 years and there is no difference in teaching quality.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for sharing. So will tuition be reduced or just room/board not charged? My HS senior is considering her choices now and I do not want to pay private school tuition for distance learning. I really hope colleges get that.

As it stands right now, schools are generally not charging for room and board. The tuition is the same price, either you want the class/degree, or you do not.

+1 they will not decrease tuition even if remote learning for a semester.

BU will open research labs (grant $$$) and grad school first (off campus housing and smaller classes, plus TAs to help with remote learning). Undergrad will be remote. If you don’t like it, you will likely still have to pay (hefty) fees to stay enrolled, but not tuition. They won’t offer freshman deferments or gap years. You will lose your spot and they will pull in waitlist.

College is a pay to play business.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for sharing. So will tuition be reduced or just room/board not charged? My HS senior is considering her choices now and I do not want to pay private school tuition for distance learning. I really hope colleges get that.

As it stands right now, schools are generally not charging for room and board. The tuition is the same price, either you want the class/degree, or you do not.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for sharing. So will tuition be reduced or just room/board not charged? My HS senior is considering her choices now and I do not want to pay private school tuition for distance learning. I really hope colleges get that.

My kids are launched, thank God. But something to think about: if distance learning is actually working*, so you EVER want to pay $50-75K a year for a liberal arts college education which is largely party time (or maturation time) for your children? I can see a very few elite colleges --think Ivies, Stanford, MIT-- getting away with this in the future. And probably med schools and other places where hands-on is a part of the education.

*If it's not working, shame on the universities that are holding on to the spring tuition money.

I can see some long term effects on the cost of higher education in this country, making it more like European universities where it's not usually centered on a campus lifestyle. If parents begin to act like consumers, it could be a positive.

Thanks for sharing. So will tuition be reduced or just room/board not charged? My HS senior is considering her choices now and I do not want to pay private school tuition for distance learning. I really hope colleges get that.

I'm a college department chair, and we're definitely making plans for remote learning in the fall. No way that we can cancel classes altogether for so many reasons, but we could have a much more systematic and effective way of delivering online learning.

We're still cautiously hopeful that we'll be able to have all of the students back to campus in August, but it's so hard to predict what's going to happen next week, let alone four months from now.