Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus

Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by throwaway0a5e on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:30AM (#24158395)

>Sucks because students are signing leases, moving crap, buying meal plans, etc, right now. Aside from the obvious safety issues.

Follow the money.

The colleges are getting paid regardless. The local landlords, businesses, etc. that usually get to skim easy money off college students don't. The colleges have to walk the line between screwing the students by giving them all covid (bad press -> less money) and pissing off the locals, who will just use their voting power to use the local government to take money (less favorable regulator environment -> less money) from the colleges if the colleges don't let them skim enough gravy.

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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by harambae on Sunday August 16, 2020 @08:00PM (#24182462)

I'm glad someone said this because this was my take as well.

Here's Notre Dame's tracker: https://here.nd.edu/our-approach/dashboard/

My theory is that the semester will be shut down just in time for nobody to get their money back (where students otherwise would have taken a gap year or something). Maybe I'm just cynical.

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