Honestly? And the Schrader administration is trying to characterize faculty as not caring enough about our students.
One of my colleagues has made this meme:
Please sign our petition of support and distribute it to your contact lists and over your social media accounts: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-wright-state-faculty.
Please visit our social media accounts and express your support to encourage our members and demonstrate to the communities that we serve that we have broad support:
https://www.facebook.com/AAUP-Wright-State-University-636430523091526/,
https://twitter.com/aaupwsu?lang=en,
https://www.instagram.com/aaupwrightstate/.
Please take a photo that includes a sign expressing support and send it to martinkich@gmail.com.
Holy [bleep] is that misleading. Students are supposed to show up for class, even if there’s nobody to teach it, just to sign an attendance sheet because it might threaten their financial aid if they don’t? The only way that threat even suggests that there might be any teeth to it is if your strike lasts until the end of the semester and somebody else (read: scab) has to issue actual final grades. Otherwise, since your members have control over grades once the strike is over, there is no legal reason for anything that happens while you’re on strike to threaten students’ grades or financial aid or anything of the sort.
As I told students the week before we struck in 2016: I’m not going to have any idea whether you’re in class when I’m not there, and if anybody tries to hand me attendance information or anything else, I’ll toss it in the shredder. So you use your best judgment about whether you want to show up.
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