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#StrikeForOurSafety
EMAIL YOUR INSTRUCTORS! Ask them to stand in solidarity with us by not requiring attendance or not teaching in person tomorrow, January 31st.
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https://t.co/YO3AutVfF9
Student and faculty safety are essential!
Thank you so much to @dsuucla@UCLAPresident@ucla_ivp@usacaac@jeffrrryyy@usacfac for your advocacy for COVID accommodations.
Y'all lovely people can sign on to support this cause here: https://t.co/h6JHlugO6p
Love and solidarity!
@PhilChodrow @EmiDoesMath@uclamath@uclachem Yes! It's a common policy that is extremely ableist in general and dangerous in the context of a pandemic. Which is why we're asking people to email the departments and not the professors!
The math & chemistry departments @uclamath@uclachem is endangering its students.
Students have reported that a Math professor is forcing students to take finals in-person despite multiple people in that lecture testing positive for Covid. Similar reports coming from chem.
According to some students talking about it on reddit a couple of proffesors have said that whoever tests positive and misses the final will get an incomplete for the class and have to retake the final in the fall @UCLA really doesn't care about students
If you are a current student or alum of these departments, or simply want to support these students, send an email to the math and chemistry departments: Tell them they must stop endangering students.
[email protected][email protected]
@speer_isaac @uclamath@uclachem Yes - and we heard @uclamath also forced a different professor for the same course to move their online exam to in-person. Professors and students alike should have the choice to protect themselves, especially given that we're in a severe surge now!
Seeing tons of graduation photos (masses of people & no masks) and my heart is breaking for all of the Disabled & immunocompromised students who would have liked to celebrate their graduation too but have to make the choice to survive instead.
It's graduation season! Are you a disabled student graduating from a US university? Want to be featured in our celebration of disabled students in higher ed?
Fill out this form so we can post it on our @dsuucla instagram and celebrate you!
https://t.co/xlI9vFbMZQ
COVID policies on college campuses affect students’ health and access to education, especially for those who are high risk.
Help students make informed choices as college decision day approaches.
Report your school's COVID policies at the link below: https://t.co/bpS9dQo0YK
COVID policies on college campuses affect students’ health and access to education, especially for those who are high risk.
Help students make informed choices as college decision day approaches.
Report your school's COVID policies at the link below: https://t.co/bpS9dQo0YK
@NohaAboelataMD@WireDisability@AyLilGiraffe@alanasaltz@UCLA They claim remote access is too costly, that people don't really need it because everything is safe, and it would interfere with "academic freedom." (They don't allow professors to choose to teach remotely though, so.)
hey @UCLA researchers in epi, public health, infectious disease/virology, etc who are concerned with UCLA's reckless covid policies – DM me or @dsuucla.
(Or any non-UCLA researchers who agree their anti-mask policies are dangerous!)
@NohaAboelataMD@WireDisability@AyLilGiraffe@alanasaltz@UCLA They do not. Even for students with extensive documentation for a disability/high-risk condition, it is nearly impossible to get remote access if the professor isn't already offering it (and few professors do). Zero options for those w/o formal accommodations.