Part of the hard reality of this is that colleges often depend on room and board revenue to stay solvent, particularly smaller schools[0][1]. This would seem t

Part of the hard reality of this is that colleges often depend on room and board revenue to stay solvent, particularly smaller schools[0][1]. This would seem to heavily incentivize bringing students back so as to collect this money. When things (predictably) go to shit, it's easier for the administrations to blame the students than it is to blame the perilous finances that made it all but required to try to bring the students back so they could collect that money. [0] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/900782472/as-pandemic-hits-colleges-finances-small-town-may-be-affected-too https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/900782472/as-pandemic-hits-co... [1] https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/13/coronavirus-small-college-closures https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/13/coronavirus-small...