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by glofish 2177 days ago
Ok, are you arguing that all courses will be online, but the campus, labs and sports will be in person?

It seems like you are missing the point, if the student is not coming the professor can't get paid either. Do you thing GT will just print more money?

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I'm saying that, in a world where campus needs to be closed for safety reasons, but professors can teach online, it's possible to both reduce/discount tuition and still pay professors near what they were making before since they're still doing as much or more work as before. Most of the cost of tuition is physical-world/social events that couldn't take place if campus was closed.

I'm not sure what will end up happening, or if it will be fair to either party here. And obviously, if students drop out over this, then that will cause financial issues all over, but that doesn't seem like what's happening. Students are still enrolled and interested in taking classes where possible. On the other end, telling non-tenured professors that they now have to teach entirely online for less money is an easy way for them to go find a different job, which isn't good for GT either.