er, didn't mean commuting. i meant, you have to be in the same room as the class you're teaching. and you have to stay there, for the scheduled time. the course

er, didn't mean commuting. i meant, you have to be in the same room as the class you're teaching. and you have to stay there, for the scheduled time. the course is going to run 9AM to 10AM, and you, the professor, don't get to go somewhere else during that time. even if there is distance teaching, you have to stop what you're doing, turn on your video conferencing program, and pretend to address the course material for 1 hour, as opposed to doing whatever else it is you want to do for that hour. and even if a particular student is themselves paying less, any loans originated by non-university sources, or scholarships from outside the university, etc become university income. only grants, loans, work studies, etc, originated by the university itself wouldn't be new income. so, yes, the average income per student will be less than the advertised average tuition, it will also be higher than what the average student is paying. (huzzah, upper and lower bounds!)