[thatcat]

The easy solution is for Unis to take an L for once and to cover costs with their enormous savings from the last 30 years of exponential growth. Those fees obviously are over actual cost to cover contingencies, a pandemic was inevitable on the time scale of a university. They probably should have gotten insurance, what do those admins do anyway if not plan for things such as this?

[gowld]

At most places, that money was already spent, not saved up.

You can't buy insurance for something that cripples everyone. Math isn't magic.

[mrgordon]

It’s exempted from insurance but yeah they should have some reserves