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I'll add a couple other notes... It's interesting to see GT's experience here get picked up specifically and I think partially its just randomness, partially t
by avs733 6y ago
I'll add a couple other notes...
It's interesting to see GT's experience here get picked up specifically and I think partially its just randomness, partially the other issues in Georgia, partially the particular failures of GT/the university system of Georgia.
Basically, GT is in the same boat as many other places...working on the assumption that students will pick the university with in person or take a gap year before doing online. So everyone, to some extent, is bluffing each other. Now it's a race to see who admits they were wrong first. You are starting to see it (or have already seen it) from private universities mostly because they have total control over their financial state and (in some cases) an immutable reputation that won't be damaged (think: MIT, Harvard, etc.) by being conservative. For everyone else, it's a crap shoot.
- blaser-waffle 6y ago> It's interesting to see GT's experience here get picked up specifically and I think partially its just randomness, partially the other issues in Georgia, partially the particular failures of GT/the university system of Georgia. It's a tech school, and this is a tech blog, plus GA (as a proxy for the south in general) has a lot of the COVID and has not done a fantastic job managing outbreaks. Makes sense it's a source of scrutiny.
- avs733 6y agoWhen I say picked up I mean by the general media. Yes HN is tech focused....but the GT specific story has been reported by a number of news outlets while similar stories at other universities have not. It started with a story in the local press, and has ballooned. There are other campuses in Georgia where faculty are doing similar things with no/little coverage. Obviously GT is more well known...but there is an element of commenting on all of Academia via proxy.