College After Coronavirus

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How has the college experience changed and what could it look like going forward? Bro explains how, for the near term, it will be more solo and less solo cups. However, In the long run, we might see much-needed disruption in higher education (for the better).

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0:00.0	This is Molly Full Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Professor Robert Brokamp.
0:09.2	Personal finance expert here at the Molly Fool. Hey bro. Classes in session, everybody.
0:13.5	Okay. Well, he may not actually be a professor, but he is a parent to like five or six kids in college right now.
0:21.3	How we know of?
0:22.8	Who better to talk about the future of college after coronavirus than someone who is
0:28.0	fully consumed by the topic?
0:30.8	All that and more on this week's episode of Motleyful Answers.
0:35.0	So, Allison, what's up?
0:37.4	Well, bro, I'm here with your goodish news, bad news report. So let's get
0:42.3	started. The goodish news is that after a couple of choppy days in the market, we're seeing a bit
0:47.5	of a rally this moment, this moment being Friday or Monday. No, today's Monday. Time has lost all
0:52.9	meeting. It is Monday, May 18th. Monday,
0:55.9	May 18th. Actually, and I haven't checked the market in the last hour. So I assume it's still
1:01.3	rallying. Bro, when was the last time you checked it? I actually, it's funny, I've been trying to
1:05.9	ignore it a little bit more because I had spent so much of the last two months watching it too
1:09.8	closely. It's my
1:11.5	spring resolution to only look a couple times a day. But yes, it is up significantly as of this
1:17.3	taping. All right. So, and if I understand it correctly, it's up because of some promising
1:24.1	news of a vaccine. So, okay, that's some goodish news. Oh, wait, badish news.
1:29.5	Never mind that over 30 million people have lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus.
1:33.7	But hey, okay, some goodish news is that 77% expect to get their job back. Once this is all over,
1:40.1	that's according to a poll by the Washington Post and Ipsos. Oh, wait, back to bad news.
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