Effects of Coronavirus on Higher Education (Essay Sample)

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EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS ON HIGHER EDUCATION
The coronavirus has affected higher education in the united states and the whole world at large. It has done away with the day to day norms, guidelines, and rules of all higher learning institutions worldwide. The migration of courses and degrees online will affect social mobility. Many higher learning institutions have responded to the threat with some measures which reduce cost, including offering fewer courses, reducing student needs and services, and hiring more workers in faculty. The tuition fee is raised. Learning institutions are predicting revenue losses this year due to the cost incurred in moving to learn online.
Universities and colleges educate 72% of postsecondary students while depending on public funding. Higher education is among the top budgets in the state. Due to the breakout of covid-19, it is positively affected. This is because the state funds were diverted to deal with the coronavirus instead of using them for funding higher education. Planning for a better future, most of the higher institutions leaders reduce new employees, introduce cutting off the benefits they get. Voluntary salary reductions for senior leadership have been announced by many universities, including Brown, Stanford, and Southern California university. Pension contributions have been suspended in other colleges like Sacred heart university and Johns Hopkins.
Online education is an essential matter in health measure of the public, but it will bring many drawbacks to institutions and students in the future. A student who is academically less prepared and those coming from backgrounds with less income mostly performs poorly in online learning. For higher education online to be successful, it is required that a lot of educational experience is offered. Personal interaction satisfaction to the student and it motivates the student to gain knowledge and eventually succeed. The lack of physical availability is one reason why online learning is not sufficient and should be resisted. The online education mostly has high drop-out rates, and students rarely earn meaningful certification. Online education might be better but not the best in terms of personal intellectual. Students can learn important content. Productive discussions on zoom or online forums are also possible. But it isn't easy to express curiosity or excitement. It is harder to sense some other activities like if a student wants to ask a question, and he/she hasn't put up his/her hand. This is possible in a live classroom. For potential learners who can't access face to face education because it is too far away or challenging to d