Breaking promises on campus reopening is the least bad option

How refreshing to read something obvious but unstated. If academics had more power within universities rather than giving them over to management people, perhaps they would be less shy about saying this!

“ Yet how will universities – or, more specifically, beleaguered faculty and bare-bones student support services – cope when demands for pastoral care go into overdrive?“ At my university, a week before students return, it was announced that academic advisors were no more, replaced by “year tutors” with responsibility for ~150 students each. How that is a good thing for pastoral care at a time like this, I cannot fathom.