Not having the ability to draw high schoolers to campus means admissions counselors find themselves tied to computers, doing video chats as they extol the virtues of their campus.
as colleges ask all but those truly unable to go home to pack up. Colleges are being called on to issue refunds, which could total in the millions of dollars for some larger liberal arts colleges. Schools are facing unexpected costs as they try to switch their entire classroom instruction apparatus to online-only. That's a particular challenge for small liberal arts colleges, whose calling cards are face-to-face relationships between faculty and students.
Many of the nation's small liberal arts colleges and universities are in small, rural towns. Hardship for the schools can extend to the whole town. A day later, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Ditzler sent a note to students, encouraging them either to move home or settle in for the long haul. On Wednesday, Moody's Investment Service downgraded the entire higher education sector from stable to negative.
"I think colleges are in full-out emergency mode," said Robert Kelchen, a higher education finance professor at Seton Hall University."They are making decisions and trying to conserve resources for major decisions that will have to be made down the way."Tim Gibson understands making decisions under pressure. As an Air Force pilot who rose in the ranks until his retirement as a one-star general, Gibson learned the OODA loop decision making process.
At Wheaton College, a liberal arts school of over 2,000 students in the Chicago area, decisions have been coming left and right.Small liberal arts schools are largely residential schools, with most having more than 90% of their students living on campus.
Among the things that normally get shown off on such visits are what a small school brings to the table.
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