How Can We Trust Administrators? They assure us it's safe to return to the classroom — but there are good reasons not to believe them

[...]as a scholar of queer studies, Latin American studies, and Indigenous studies, my teaching asks questions about how power functions — and I dread the precedent that we are setting by returning to campus as if everything were normal. If our administrators truly had community in mind, the most vu...

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Published inThe Chronicle of Higher Education
Main Author Pierce, Joseph M
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Chronicle of Higher Education 01.10.2021
Subjects
Access to Health Care
Children
College campuses
Colleges & universities
Community
Community Relations
Compliance
COVID-19
Epidemics
Handicapped accessibility
Masks
Pandemics
Teaching
Trust
Universities
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Summary:[...]as a scholar of queer studies, Latin American studies, and Indigenous studies, my teaching asks questions about how power functions — and I dread the precedent that we are setting by returning to campus as if everything were normal. If our administrators truly had community in mind, the most vulnerable, those with the least amount of privilege or access to health care, child care, or housing, then they would be arguing for the most flexibility possible for the fall semester. Joseph M. Pierce is an associate professor of Hispanic languages and literature at Stony Brook University.
ISSN:0009-5982
1931-1362