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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3549393, member: 153"] Back to the original topic: 1. U. Cal. is not adopting the Cal. State model. At least not yet. 2. Cal-State is joining U. Cal. and being subsumed into the U. Cal. system as feeder schools. 3. Going online could very well be part of that. 4. Most schools are planning some kind of opening. Whether that means trimesters, or beginning in October, still remains to be seen. 5. The politicians will have the final say. 6. The NCAA -- if it ever had a reputation -- is quickly about to lose it. The NCAA is recommending that athletes return to campus even IF there are no live classes. This is sure to be the death knell of the NCAA if that comes to pass. 7. On 3 big state U. campuses, athletics are not part of any crisis planning. I have heard of Presidents making impassioned defenses of athletics in the face of this huge budget slaughter. The SUNY centers are looking at a combined $300 million cut. This is effectively 1/4 of the fungible operating budgets. I'd say expect students to be in session at some point during the fall, but... I can go on and on about the pitfalls and tradeoffs. A former student of mine, who is now the Provost of a top 50 liberal arts school in the midwest, described his life right now as reaching out for any piece of driftwood that floats by. If you like bad and absurd, you're going to like the fall semester. [/QUOTE]