Texas universities are moving more classes online but keeping tuition the same. Students are asking if its worth the money. | Dallas Weekly

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Texas universities are moving more classes online but keeping tuition the same. Students are asking if its worth the money. | Dallas Weekly

By Raga Justin and Reese Oxner, The Texas Tribune Sarah Ramos has spent her summer anxiously awaiting a fall return to Texas AM’s campus at College Station. She is hoping for some normalcy after she and her classmates were abruptly forced off campus last semester and into Zoom-based classes for the remainder of the spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. []

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