Thread regarding DeVry Inc. layoffs

The information in the post is interesting and seems logical, but I have a different view. I think many will drop out of college until the pandemic is over. Although, I feel there will be an increase in online learning for some of the traditional colleges because of the younger students that typically attend. Many students and professors hate online teaching/learning. It's a lot more work and for the professors and students. The fact it costs more for students, and the professors aren't compensated appropriately for all of the extra work, is another reason. We are in a pandemic, so many have extraordinary stressors that will probably cause them to not do very well in school at this time, so they will dropout. In addition, professors might have a hard time teaching too because of the stress, having to learn the technology with little training, low pay, isolation, and extraordinary micro management/expectations. We shall see. We shall see because we might have traditional classes until 2021.

As spring term begins, some classroom instructors (not DeVry and not professors) are AWOL/MIA/no-shows to classroom courses that have switched to google zoom and other online options. Some are still scrambling to learn how to hold an online class for the very first time; way behind and not done setting up. Some likely feel underpaid for these tedious tech tasks and jumping ship now. I convinced one co-worker to drop his class immediately to get a refund after no replies from instructor after 5 days and only 1 email from his east coast public university with an apology. 19 students online silent and waiting for crickets. Yeah.. 2020 is going to be a doozy.

If DeVry wants to TRULY benefit from this year, it needs to lower its acceptance rates and become a 'selective' university on paper. Some selectivity and a renewed QA goes a long away.

Saw an article where almost 7,000 students enrolled at Western Governors University in March. And almost 6,000 for February. WGU is non-profit and not anything like Phoenix or DeVry. With many other universities like Purdue, Stanford, and MIT touting their online programs, I have to agree with the Original Poster (OP in geek speak).

I think a lot of students will have a bad experience in cobbled together online classes and will avoid them like the plague after the Plague is over.