"Now that universities face the emergency of a pandemic, they are stuck," @BretDevereaux writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/why-state-universities-have-no-other-choice-but-to-reopen/615565/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share …
Nailed it in <1200 words. If admin's message to students better communicated the value of the courses, maybe it would help.
Great credit to the brevity of the article goes to the editors over at the Atlantic who helped to trim down and refine what was, admittedly, a rather overgrown first draft.