If COVID-19 makes campus life less attractive, CT universities will pay a stiff price
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Harry Zehner, senior at the University of Connecticut, works before attending an online class in his room in New Haven. Zehner decided to live off campus this fall semester to live with friends going to different universities and because of the uncertainty coming from living on campus.
Connecticut’s public colleges and universities have walked on a fiscal knife’s edge for years.
Forced to frequently raise fees and tuition to offset dwindling state aid, higher education faces a new threat from the coronavirus potentially worse than the initial surge that closed campuses last spring.