04-16-2020, 08:50 PM
The best prof I had was visiting from Reed. Then again he wrote like 1/3 of the standard undergraduate physics textbooks, so he might just have a talent for pedagogy.
On topic, I have no damn idea what will happen. My best guess is that 5+ years from now things will look pretty similar, at least at Stanford and other elite colleges. I wouldn't be surprised if the bottom fell out for the smaller, non-elite institutions, a lot of them were struggling prior to this anyway. Online colleges were already getting some traction (my SiL is getting a degree from one of them, ASU I believe), that will probably be accerlated. I'm curious about the big state schools, that's the one where it seems hardest to predict.
For the next few years? I give it a big fat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On topic, I have no damn idea what will happen. My best guess is that 5+ years from now things will look pretty similar, at least at Stanford and other elite colleges. I wouldn't be surprised if the bottom fell out for the smaller, non-elite institutions, a lot of them were struggling prior to this anyway. Online colleges were already getting some traction (my SiL is getting a degree from one of them, ASU I believe), that will probably be accerlated. I'm curious about the big state schools, that's the one where it seems hardest to predict.
For the next few years? I give it a big fat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯