UNC student starts petition to cancel in-person classes
For weeks, faculty, staff, and students in the University of North Carolina System have been petitioning for a transition to remote-only instruction.
On June 12, graduate workers and professional students at UNC published a response to UNC’s Roadmap for Fall 2020. Last week, more than 30 professors, teaching assistants, and graduate students started a petition asking for remote-only learning, more transparency, and a commitment to protect the health of the campus community. The petition now has over 2,600 signatures.
Now, two days after ICE rescinded a policy that would have stripped international students of their visas if their courseload was entirely online, students say there is no excuse for the university to continue with an in-person reopening plan.
ICE’s policy met with outrage from UNC students, and in the face of what many saw as a lackluster response from the university, students worked together and took action to help their international peers. Less than 12 hours after ICE announced its new policy, Ruth Samuel and Marcella Pansini, both seniors at UNC-Chapel Hill, collaborated to create a Google Sheet of all the in-person and hybrid classes UNC is offering this fall as a resource for international students.
Read more: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2020/07/16/unc-student-starts-petition-to-cancel-in-person-classes/
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