i think the thought of balanced budgets in this day and age are a funny concept. shoot me.CU77 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:22 pmI have no idea what you think is funny.
https://www.urban.org/research/publicat ... quirements
https://taxfoundation.org/fy-2020-state ... e-budgets/
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some math, alabama was brought up.
38,000 students. send them home at thanksgiving, say it's 13 weeks.
pcr tests look like they could be done for $15 per maybe but let's go crazy and say there's issues and it's $50.
38,000 × 13 x 50 = $25 mil. per semester for a once in a lifetime event.
their budget is over a billion. endowment, too. that's 5%. tell parents in june it's gonna be an extra $500 per semester to be on campus and you can steal the other money from services not provided on student fees and it's free.
or make up a similar scenario and get funds to pay....
or don't really have a plan, test a few people, try to scare peeps into compliance, chase your tail or close down when it goes awry bc you don't have a plan.
higher education has spent the last 3 decades increasing costs at more than twice the rate of inflation. they're on the teet and life's been easy. now with some strategy needed and some work, they've bailed. they're going to pay for that call, imo.