HMM: Plexiglass Won’t Save Us: Colleges (And Law Schools) Must Go Online In Fall 2020. I chose to go online this semester because I thought our “hybrid” teaching setup would be inferior, and I’d still prefer to teach in class as usual. But the other advantage to going online is that there’s a nontrivial chance we’ll switch to it in the middle of the semester, and this way if we do I’ll already be there, and with a superior setup.

Meanwhile, here’s what’s really going on most places: “The race to get back to campus in some form, even for a few weeks, is largely about one thing: money. If this fall is entirely online, polls have shown, families don’t think they should have to pay the on-campus price. The traditional business model for higher education is built on the in-person experience. Without it, vast pieces of institutional budgets will collapse and quite possibly the very future of all but the most prominent institutions.”

I think a lot of schools will show last-minute class melt, where people just don’t show up on the first day.