@anotherparent, I can't decide whether I think gathering hundreds or thousands of college kids together as a potential reservoir of infected (even if largely asymptomatic) people is going to be the best available strategy. It's a potential tragedy for staff and faculty, some of whom will not be able to avoid spending a good deal of time around students. Also a potential tragedy for other non-students in the community. But those same thousands of kids living at home aren't going to socially distance there either, I realize.
I agree that if you ask someone today whether they are willing to take on these risks for the sake of their jobs, many would say "yes." But I also think those same folks will feel very differently if they or someone they care about is hospitalized. Right now, much of the willingness to bear the risk rests on an assumption that there won't be any serious costs.
I expect to send my kids off to college in August. I have no idea what the fall will bring though.