[Uncle Sham]

This university is getting ahead of the college transition curve to cutting staff and going online to the degree possible. Coming to a university near you. Those who fail to make these types of moves are destined for the scrap pile. If you are an average college professor this pandemic has turned you into a blacksmith after the model-T was invented.

[yldstrk]

Yes, cut the money going to the top.

[MHT]

The tuition "model" of most universities and colleges will have a major re-set. College tuition has increased annually at twice the rate of inflation of the rest of the marketplace. They have made fortunes from tuition, foreign money, consultants, as well as government grants and contracts, which has made management overpaid self-referential authorities. Harvard is one of the largest employers in Massachusetts and what would Boston be without its colleges, with one every two square miles.

If this pandemic does anything, cleaning out academia might be the best thing to come out of it.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Yup - should be lining up to be like the Sears Roebuck catalog vs Amazon.com online shopping experience. Those who don't roll with the changes crater out.