'Asking faculty to participate in practices that can jeopardize collective well-being is untenable in a moral as well as a public health sense,' RuthBenGhiat writes for CNNOpinion.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat , a frequent contributor to CNN Opinion, is professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and the author of"Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present." She publishes the newsletter Lucid on threats to democracy. The views expressed here are her own. The return to campus for the start of fall teaching is normally a joyful time for college and university faculty and staff.
Ruth Ben-GhiatBut not this year. Far from feeling vibrant, many of us are haunted by the specter of illness. We worry that doing our job will cause us, our students and our loved ones to contract Covid-19, especially as the wildly contagious Delta variant continues to circulate. At this precarious time, a massive number of people have returned or are returning to college campuses. A list by the Chronicle of Higher Education includes over 1,000 colleges and universities with vaccine mandates.
Some college students buying fake vaccination cards to skirt university Covid requirements 03:14"I taught 135 students today," tweeted Dr. Susan Meerdink, an assistant professor at the University of Iowa, on August 23."The two rooms were packed, with no open seats. Only about 40 students had masks. When I described why I am wearing a mask and having virtual office hours , I got eye rolls and dramatic sighs." Or worse, faculty can be fired by their institutions.
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