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Georgia: Kid records crowded HS hallway where all the kids aren't wearing masks and gets suspended.

^{Well, that didn't take long}

UNC-Chapel Hill moves all classes online after 130 more COVID-19 cases
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article245014185.html

I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

Oh wait, no, it is *exactly* what this professor of higher education financing predicted in the July 31 episode of Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897983620/college-fails

I think Covid will be a watershed moment for higher education that will expose many of the... uh... less accurate assertions made over the years about costs and value. I don't think there's a way back to the glory days of the early 2000s for universities.

Full disclosure: I have been predicting this every year for 25 years for some reason or another and I have so far been wrong 24 times, but I'm sticking to my broken-clock analysis until the damn hands come around to my point of view, so help me God.

Good article. I have not read/heard a lot of Galloway's stuff, but I like that he's willing to shoot from the hip and be a little more out there than most scholars.

>>delusional

But as I say, I have been saying that about universities for 25 years and so far, I've been wrong 24 times. The bizarre form of university we have in the US seems strangely persistent.

Notre Dame, Michigan State suspend in-person instruction

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/18/notre-dame-suspends-in-person-instruction-coronavirus-398043

>university finances

I recently read headlines that said more that a few universities depend on sports to be their money-makers.  Without fans, booster clubs, licensing agreements, logo sweatshirts, etc. they are sucking air bigtime.

Not at all a surprise, I am not sure why we keep having magical thinking on this topic.