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colleges and covid

Masha Gessen writing in The New Yorker.

 

 

sharpies

Brutal - but a lot of truth.

 

a rough guide for back to school risk

Perhaps a starting point for some from the NYT.

 

 

 

covid u

Bring people - some who think they won't get sick - in from all over the country, put them in close quarters and you see the spread of infection.  The term hasn't begun, but infection is spreading.

 

 

safe schools

It makes sense as far as transmission goes, but somehow I doubt parents would accept open-air education.

 

 

 

on re-opening schools

Kids need to schools, but America's failure to deal with Covid-19 forces difficult choices. Some of what has been learned. 

 

school openings around the world

Learnings so far and many questions...

 

 

face to face college in the fall?

Or offices and k12 schools?

Here's how Taiwan managed their universities with great success.

Of course Taiwan has a disciplined government that knows how to deal with epidemics and pandemics and got to work immediately - here's a response paper from early March.

 

collegetown hoovervilles

Or Trumptowns ..  towns dependent on colleges are going to take a bit hit.

snip

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Compounding the concern is the 2020 census. Conducted every 10 years, the national head count determines the distribution of federal funding for a vast number of local and state programs, including transit, public safety and Medicaid.

Because the window for responses has coincided with campus shutdowns, college towns are reporting significant undercounts of students living off-campus, with dire financial implications.

A census without Ohio University students could knock the official population of Athens from 24,000 down to as few as 6,000 people. With an Oct. 31 deadline approaching, responses in student neighborhoods are currently running some 20 percentage points lower than in 2010, with response rates in some tracts of less than 31 percent.

Mayor Steve Patterson of Athens estimates an undercount could cost his small city up to $40 million over the next 10 years “for things like community development block grants, jobs and family services and senior services that rely on a strong census count to get a full funding.”

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when science class mattered

An old NY Times piece that seems more relevant.