11 Ağustos 2020, Pazartesi
saat: 02:06
"Math problems for faculty on their university’s reopening plan:
A network of research, policy, and public-health experts recommends that 13 states where COVID-19 cases are rising astronomically should shut down immediately. Your University is in one of those 13 states and draws students from several others. Faculty at your institution have been told that in order to stay in business and pay salaries, students must return to your campus, and some faculty must teach face-to-face. You are one of those faculty who will be teaching face-to-face. Given that the rate of infection in your state stands at 2000 cases per 100k residents and your University’s student population constitutes ~3,000, calculate the time from the start of the semester to the day that you will become infected with COVID-19.
Then, calculate the number of dead people in your campus community that will get your administration to realize that this plan is a joke, that they are going to get sued within an inch of everyone’s existence before they move instruction back online, where it should have been in the first place."
Sigh.
At least the Fall syllabi for the intro classes are complete!! The order of weeks may need to be shuffled around depending on whether or not sophomores and juniors are coming back to the campus, but all the pieces are there in a nicely organized chart. I’ve even roughly mapped out the alternative assignments for the inevitable case of students' getting sick, which is MILES ahead of where I’d normally be in the planning process. AND I drafted a "TL;DR infographic" for my 30-page syllabus and plan to add a FAQ section on Slack, so basically, I am killing it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We are now just nine days out from the start of the semester and honestly...I am terrified! There is so much to do!! Cue the first day of school stress dreams!!
