Friday, July 3, 2020

Not so fast! Rethinking fall opening

Today's report — up again
USC reverses robust fall reopening plans, asks students to stay home for online classes
LA Times
 -- Amid the alarming surge in coronavirus spread, USC announced it will no longer bring all undergraduates back to campus for the fall semester and will move to mainly online classes, reversing an earlier decision to welcome students back for a hybrid model. Tomás Mier in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 7/2/20
Social distancing fail
Mounting Faculty Concerns About the Fall Semester
Inside Higher Ed
Professors across institutions increasingly wave red flags about the private and public health implications of default face-to-face instruction come fall, along with a lack of shared decision making in staffing and teaching decisions.
For a lengthy discussion of the pseudo-scientific book "White Fragility," check this out (especially the interview with Reed at 55:20):




Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...