Northeastern to fully open in fall

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BC also. With an acknowledgment that it's partly due to financial reasons.

Boston College intends to be open for on-campus classes as scheduled on Aug. 31, President William Leahy wrote to the school community Tuesday.

University leaders and officials have looked at the challenges for returning to classes at its Chestnut Hill campus over the past several weeks — a process that will continue on, “mindful educational needs and desires of students and their parents, concerns about protecting the health of our entire community, and economic realities facing American higher education,” Leahy wrote in a letter.

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[Waquoit]

I did not know Lyin' Leahy was still around.

 

[HooperScooper]

Six big decisions colleges are wrestling with as they weigh whether to bring back students this fall - The Boston Globe

Here’s a look at what some college officials are discussing, and what a fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic could look like.

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Colleges plan for on-campus classes, even as scientists warn of risk for COVID-19 - The Boston Globe

The leaders of major Boston-area colleges and universities say they are hoping to hold some or all of their courses on campus this fall, even as epidemiologists warn that colleges by their very nature might put students and faculty at risk for COVID-19.

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That's already been happening. Many small non-elite private colleges have gone out of business the last few years and many are teetering on the edge. I'm sure this pandemic hasn't helped those that were already teetering.

I think it may force out the fringe players, or force them away from a traditional bricks and mortar role. The more interesting question is what does that do to the market. Let's slots should support a higher tuition pricing but I have to believe that we are close to hitting the upper limit on that on a price vs earning capacity analysis. To me the growth area will be one or two year degrees that open traditionally "blue collar" opportunities. I haven't thought about it enough to define what that might be but I think there is a niche for shorter lower cost programs that vet out people who will be viewed by employers as a less risky hire by virtue of that training.