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ADV-1196 D.P.Miller Position On May 6, 2020, the President of Temple University, Richard M. Englert put out an announcement titled, “Looking to The Future”. In this announcement he stated, “While the events of the past two months have changed our lives in many ways, one thing has not changed: the incredible ability of the Temple community to pull together on behalf of our students. As our spring semester comes to a close, it’s natural to look ahead and ask, “What’s next?”. What followed was a lack of planning for the summer semester, and a poorly executed plan for the fall semester. Temple University hasn’t handled remote learning well, and it’s caused many of their students (myself included) to lose their minds, figuratively and literally. Most professors in a college university have a heighted level of autonomy, which they’ve earned. However, there’s no consistency on how one classroom is run to the next. There’s no continuity among faculty members when it comes to the basic things, such as, the way canvas should be set up. In one classroom I have a modules page, but in another class, all the material is bunched up on the home page. This has been an issue since last spring. Although it has gotten exponentially better, there’s still so much work that needs to be done. Losing the ability to have in-person classes had made learning more challenging for the student because there seems to be more work to do, more readings, discussions, voice threads, etc. This seems to be done to replicate the student’s interaction with one another, and their interaction with the material. However, an increased workload in every class makes it even more difficult to keep up with all classes, especially if there’s a personal issue taking place outside of the classroom. One professor argued that the reason the pass/fail option existed was to help students with this challenge. However, in the event a student catches Covid-19 (which I did) and has to miss up to 2 weeks (which I did), the amount of work they’ll have to make up isn’t accounted for with only one pass/fail option, putting their gpa in serious jeopardy. Temple University hasn’t handled remote learning well because they didn’t take in account the most important beneficiary of getting the process right: the student. There’s not enough compassion, consistency, and continuity among those who are in charge of the process. In an article by the Philadelphia Inquirer, one anonymous TU
professor stated, “That lack of communication and lack of protocol made it clear that Temple’s plan was not going to protect the community.”
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