Students should not pay full price for a much lesser product. And for anything but STEM, it's already a lesser product / indoctrination daycare to begin with.
Colleges fees, especially in the Anglosphere, are disconected from the value of the education they provide.
It's now a money sucking machine mixed with daycare and intersectional indoctrination. The rot of which is infesting STEM programs now.
Absurd sums of cash are shoveled in the pockets of administrators, mandatory "diversity and inclusions, ethnic whatever" classes for students and struggle sessions for staff, and phoney positions like "chief diversity officers" and other SJWs nonsense.
At some point you have to let it crash or it will drag the whole civilization down its own black hole.
First, I understand that the corona shift to online is a very expensive endeavour for schools not already running an online programme. That said, I also understand that paying in-person prices for an online only class is a hard sell for a lot of students and assuredly isn't what they signed up for.
My question is, what are colleges supposed to do about it? Wholesale say "fuck it, masks off, sit as close as you like, who gives a shit!"?? Do that and the state is going to come in and shut them down. Reality is we're stuck with this shit until the tards in the government put their war banners down and admit this shit was overhyped silliness.
I’m fairly confident that the infrastructure costs for online classes are far less than in person classes. I mean, a webcam and internet is far cheaper than an entire fucking campus.
I remember my senior year of college in computer science there were some scheduling conflicts with what they offered in my last year... so I had to take my last few required classes in online versions [while sitting there on campus]. I was actually pretty pissed how the online classes cost me MORE money than the in person classes. Not cause they were using some special software I had to pay for or anything... just flat tuition cost increase for it. It wasn't drastically higher but one or two hundred bucks more :P
Most of these classes the teacher basically didn't even teach and I just had to read through the textbook myself and submit the assignments they would grade.
For example, I had to take a cartography class for GIS and the entire class was just a list of assignment questions and the chapters they were in. No video lecture, no anything.
Now, I did have a few online classes where the teachers put a lot of work into it but still the end user experience was if anything that it should have been a discount to me for the online version I feel. It may very well cost them more, but it simply is an inferior product that I was required to use because they didn't offer all my classes each year [and there was no way for me or my advisor to even know that ahead of time to plan so well in advance]
Students should not pay full price for a much lesser product. And for anything but STEM, it's already a lesser product / indoctrination daycare to begin with.
Colleges fees, especially in the Anglosphere, are disconected from the value of the education they provide.
It's now a money sucking machine mixed with daycare and intersectional indoctrination. The rot of which is infesting STEM programs now.
Absurd sums of cash are shoveled in the pockets of administrators, mandatory "diversity and inclusions, ethnic whatever" classes for students and struggle sessions for staff, and phoney positions like "chief diversity officers" and other SJWs nonsense.
At some point you have to let it crash or it will drag the whole civilization down its own black hole.
I can see this both ways.
First, I understand that the corona shift to online is a very expensive endeavour for schools not already running an online programme. That said, I also understand that paying in-person prices for an online only class is a hard sell for a lot of students and assuredly isn't what they signed up for.
My question is, what are colleges supposed to do about it? Wholesale say "fuck it, masks off, sit as close as you like, who gives a shit!"?? Do that and the state is going to come in and shut them down. Reality is we're stuck with this shit until the tards in the government put their war banners down and admit this shit was overhyped silliness.
They should push for bigger cuts. Rutgers is 20% in a petition. College is too expensive even with a 20% cut. California schools are worse.
I’m fairly confident that the infrastructure costs for online classes are far less than in person classes. I mean, a webcam and internet is far cheaper than an entire fucking campus.
No expensive dorms, no expensive buildings, no expensive sports to subsidize. Rebel indeed.
I remember my senior year of college in computer science there were some scheduling conflicts with what they offered in my last year... so I had to take my last few required classes in online versions [while sitting there on campus]. I was actually pretty pissed how the online classes cost me MORE money than the in person classes. Not cause they were using some special software I had to pay for or anything... just flat tuition cost increase for it. It wasn't drastically higher but one or two hundred bucks more :P
Most of these classes the teacher basically didn't even teach and I just had to read through the textbook myself and submit the assignments they would grade.
For example, I had to take a cartography class for GIS and the entire class was just a list of assignment questions and the chapters they were in. No video lecture, no anything.
Now, I did have a few online classes where the teachers put a lot of work into it but still the end user experience was if anything that it should have been a discount to me for the online version I feel. It may very well cost them more, but it simply is an inferior product that I was required to use because they didn't offer all my classes each year [and there was no way for me or my advisor to even know that ahead of time to plan so well in advance]