Mayors & Governors, Presidents & Prime Ministers; Shelter in Place

[rcjordan]

^{Attention! Put your head between your legs and kiss your a## goodbye.}

Central Florida county COVID-19 positivity rate jumps to over 30 percent, health officials say
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/central-florida-county-covid-19-positivity-rate-jumps-to-over-30-percent-health-officials-say

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Help us out, Gov. DeSantis. We're dying here - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-op-edit-desantis-masks-20200729-klyb3eypgfcyhpsb3ezmxx4fkm-story.html

[littleman]

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

[ergophobe]

I hope the ACLU or some such group takes the kid's case. What the principal did might be defensible for some rationales, but his reasoning is anathema to American values (at least as per Tinker vs Des Moines that says that students do not leave their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door).

[rcjordan]

^{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

[Travoli]

>UNC-Chapel Hill

"If [a student's tuition] payment is not received by 5 p.m. on August 17th, classes may be cancelled."

https://cashier.unc.edu/tuition-fees/important-dates/

thanks for playing

[ergophobe]

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.

[Travoli]

This may interest you, ergophobe:

https://www.profgalloway.com/uss-university

Here is their data set with "thrive, survive, struggle" rating and "value-to-cost" metric.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CUs3HrqstC2oV3CF3_di4yW6Y4K_CIrUJNEEHCCKo7A/edit#gid=0

[ergophobe]

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.

[rcjordan]

Notre Dame reports 89 new COVID-19 infections in one day


https://www.southbendtribune.com/coronavirus/notre-dame-reports-89-new-covid-19-infections-in-one-day-monday/article_da52e7d4-e170-11ea-90a9-17e2f3aaecde.html

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More than 2,000 students, 500 teachers in Mississippi in quarantine due to COVID-19
https://www.wjtv.com/health/coronavirus/more-than-2000-students-500-teachers-in-mississippi-in-quarantine-due-to-covid-19/

[rcjordan]

Notre Dame, Michigan State suspend in-person instruction

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

[ergophobe]

UNC-Chapel Hill moves all classes online after 130 more COVID-19 cases

https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1295909929228873728

So everyone is talking about UNC's COVID-19 mess - and all that criticism is perfectly valid. But we also need to talk about why the uni-administration probably had no choice. Buckle up and let's talk about university finances and the 4 horsemen of the academipocalypse. 1/lots?

1/lots = 1/27

[rcjordan]

>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.

[rcjordan]

Universities sound alarm as coronavirus cases emerge just days into classes — 530 at one campus

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/25/college-coronavirus-cases/

[littleman]

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

[rcjordan]

Yeow!

UNC-Chapel Hill Reports 31.3% of Students Tested Have COVID—And There Are Probably More
https://indyweek.com/news/orange/unc-carolina-inn-covid-19/