It looks like you are describing an institution about 8 miles down the road from Duke. This seems pretty doable at UNC.
And now back to an actual discussion. My worry is also for the coaches. There are some geezeresque coaches in the ACC and it would be a really bad look to lose one of them to the virus.
Interesting article in Business Week made the point (correctly or not) that virtual attendance at schools, including the top ones, isn't going to fly, at least not for very long. Students absolutely hate it, their parents hate it ("I'm paying $78k for THIS?"), professors hate it.
Lots of kids looking to defer admission for a year while this (hopefully) passes. A friend of mine is a loyal Middlebury grad, he goes each summer to take an alumni class, and he loves it. But he just tried a virtual class, and said it was simply awful, he'd never do it again.
Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue, is taking a different approach, certainly seems like high risk...he's grown the student population to 44,000, and says he wants everyone back on campus, and they'll simply take on the challenge of managing the disease. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...online-classes
Pretty interesting read...
One rather large problem which I don't think the article addresses is that while young students each have a very very low risk of suffering a severe illness, the same isn't true for their significantly older professors. Perhaps this can be managed by profs entering classrooms late, leaving ahead of everyone, trying their best to avoid personal contact...
I guess widely differing approaches will teach us something about how to live with the virus...
it's one of the reasons schools have announced on-campus fall so far ahead of time...regardless of whether it actually happens or not. The wiggle room on class size is not big enough at most universities to accommodate any non-trivial amount of students taking a semester off.
April 1
I think there are a lot of students, particularly incoming freshmen, who are now scrambling to figure out gap year plans. I’m not sure how the schools are responding to this. If a large number of students are allowed to do this, they will need to admit more students off the wait list (and make it clear that they are only admitted if they are showing up this fall).
Then there would be a huge backlog of freshmen entering next year so I would hate to be a junior in HS now who will be competing for fewer seats.
it's not just freshmen. A good number of people flat out told me they would take the year off if fall it was remote. Now, how many would follow through when duke says "no guarantee you will be readmitted," who knows, but the sentiment is there, and I imagine a very real problem at some of the state schools (that said, larger schools will have more wiggle room in terms of raw student count)
April 1
Interesting - thanks. Do you think that at some point Duke (and other schools) will follow through and start telling students that if they take a year off, they might not be invited back? I assume that until now, Duke was pretty lenient about letting students do that? There must have been a notification deadline to do so so that Duke had time to adjust (with obvious exceptions for true last minute hardship cases)? The Dukes of the world are in a better position to draw the line then schools with weaker demand.
I THINK the official duke policy is that if you take a semester off, you have to reapply for admittance, which is generally granted...but I imagine in cases such as this where there might be a huge % of the student population seeking to do that, it gives the university an "out" since there is effectively a maximum capacity.
So were a student to do that, they'd run the risk of never getting back in, or not being able to start back up when they wanted to. That's a pretty darn huge risk to take...then again so is paying 39k for a semester in which you receive education that is at best, almost, but not quite as good as , and at worst, significantly inferior to what it ought be.
April 1
With the NBA saying July 31, it would appear the 8 people who said May-July have won this little guessing game.
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?