Short post from the always-negative Joann Jacobs on an issue that has been at the back of my mind since the disruption to in-person classes started: will there be tuition refunds or rebates. The concern is that students are ""being charged the same amount for what is admittedly by the university a lower quality education." The answer from one school is "no". But instead of focusing on the messenger, as Jacobs does, we can ask the more serious question: how much more value is added by the in-person option, how much of a rebate should be offered, and (after all this is done) is the value for money sufficient to warrant going back to those $50K tuition fees? Also attached to this post is a top-notch diagram by Phil Hill describing the complete conversion to online learning by U.S. colleges, raising again the question, why would we go back?
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