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Sociologist, rabid soccer fan and coach ( former player), Papi for 4 little girls, smart-ass, Native Chicagoan. All opinions are mine and mine alone.
Sep 11, 2019 8 tweets 2 min read
So I just had a super humbling, & distressing, interaction with an undergraduate. Today I presented @nvancleve Wellness and Health statement, & told the students that while I've always advocated this in one-on-one conversations, for the first time I was making it "class policy 1/ The student came in and sat down and said that they wanted to thank me for bringing up this issue formally in class. They told me about some of their struggles the past few years with exactly what is in the Wellness and Health Statement: working themselves to exhaustion 2/