Drinking from the Firehose | Alex Taussig, Lightspeed | Substack

It’s not inconceivable that, in the next academic year, we will see a quarter of all public and private universities close their doors.

This realization will push most students to delay fall matriculation, or attend a virtual school over Zoom or some other platform. If they do the latter, they certainly won’t want to pay even a fraction of traditional tuition. If a virtual academic year costs 1/10th of the normal tuition, the school would need to enroll at least 10x the number of s... See more

The levy was bound to break at some point, but COVID-19 has accelerated the timeline of the collapse of the conventional university system.