Question for my USG colleagues. I imagine, if we follow each other on here, you have the good common sense to make clear to students that you will excuse Covid absences. However, what have your universities told you? Have you been instructed that you MUST? (thread)
Here is the guidance that UGA faculty were provided by our provost and VP of instruction. Hopefully this link works. It attempts to thread a needle, I think, between "it's up to faculty" vs. "please be accommodating." mailchi.mp/uga/instructio…
Noteworthy is that we are not required to excuse Covid related isolation or quarantine. Is this typical? How about at other universities? Again, I would hope that most of my colleagues are smart and kind enough to know that we should. But YIKES, we should have to, y'all.
"We also ask you to accommodate students who test positive for COVID or who need to be in quarantine as you would have accommodated ill students prior to the pandemic." IT SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING THAT COVID-19 IS NOT LIKE ANY OTHER ILLNESS PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC.
I won't even go into all of the ways that more energy is spent in this guidance on policing where and how we teach, relative to the time spent on accommodating the reality of the campus surge(s) we are all preparing to face.
Anyway, I would love to hear what guidance you have received about whether you are asked to, or required to, accommodate Covid absences. Thanks.
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