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While there are many reasons - faculty, staff and students with young children at home - faculty, staff and students, themselves or care givers of vulnerable persons ...
I see the main reason for this mandate about the mental health of the SFU population - faculty / TAs overworked where stability of the semester routine/plans are important - staff /students overworked where stability of the semester routine/plans are important
as those of us teaching see the huge strain on everyone, especially students not fully coping with course material that many of us have given many times before but now are seeing students struggling with. Our graduate students have it particularly bad as they have both their classes and TAships where that strain is on both sides. So just to maintain a system that folks are working through without unneedy changes / extra strain during the crucial last month of classes.
Best to not change anything during a semester and in its last month -- especially things that I would assume for many would be considered more stressful in an over the top super stressful time. Doing things like this at semester breaks, so to maintain the integrity of what a semester is ( and the planning / assumptions that went into it) - seems prudent to me, as it does to UBC.
- Steve DiPaola, PhD - -
- Prof: Sch of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT);
- Fellow: Royal Society of Canada (College)
- - Simon Fraser University - -
research site: ivizlab.sfu.ca
art work site: www.dipaola.org/art
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From: Eirikur Palsson
Sent: March 12, 2022 12:23 PM To: James Fleming Cc: Steve DiPaola; academic-discussion@sfu.ca Subject: Re: UBC keeping Mask Mandate, SFU is not, ( why?) and a petition now exists to change SFUs position For instance, to protect the vulnerable people on campus that vaccines don’t work for. Sometimes things are done to help/protects people such as installing wheelchair ramps on campus.
Eirikur
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