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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 3594313, member: 153"]
This is what the revolt is about. Some faculty are being required to teach face-to-face. Others aren't. The selection process is peculiar.

On campus, classes are going to run 7am until 11pm (one hour earlier and one hour later than normal) and also on Saturdays.

This is being done to maximize classroom space for in person classes, but since the new capacity for each classroom is 1/10th of what it used to be, and since there are requirements for emptying the classroom and cleaning it between classes (done by faculty), everything is tightly packed, and most classes can't be in person.

You can imagine already why there is great consternation.

It's not even that we can't socially distance in a classroom or clean it. As faculty, I'm very willing to do that. It's the pedagogy of lecturing through a mask. (I couldn't even order a sandwich today when I was 2 feet from the woman behind the counter!) It's the fact that 20 year olds in a dorm will find it impossible to socially distance themselves. We all know this is true. The classrooms can't be safe if the dorms aren't. It's that simple.
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