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The professor who called his students “vectors of disease” is threatening to sue his school.
Professor gone wild
Inside Higher Ed reports on a seventy-four-year-old history professor’s first-week video for his students. The performance/protest about teaching in a pandemic is at YouTube.
“Individually wrapped treats”
These guidelines call for considerable diligence on the part of the faculty member, who must monitor masking (a COVID-era form of “taking attendance”), place and pay for orders, and distribute gift certificates or individually wrapped treats, but not in the classroom. Or maybe the faculty member can palm the work off on a TA. I think of the absurdity of students lining up, six feet apart, maybe in the rain, to receive their individually wrapped treats. Here ya go.
What, no candy?
“The University of Texas at Austin told professors that they could offer nonacademic rewards, like cookies, to cajole students to wear masks. (A university spokeswoman, Eliska Padilla, said this was informal, not an incentive program.)”
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More on an eighty-eight-year-old professor’s last day in a classroom.
Teaching the unmasked
An eighty-eight-year-old professor encounters a student who refuses to wear a mask.