Ep 85 | Ethics of True Crime, Pickleball, Musk Loves Twitter Again, NYU Professor
Lost Debate
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Higher Education and the Pandemic
In short this one unhappy chemistry class could be a case study of the pressures in higher education as it tries to handle his Gen Z student body. Should universities ease pressures on students many of whom are still coping with the pandemic's effect on their mental health and schooling? Do students have too much power over contract faculty members who do not have the protections of tenure, she asks. She says that whole controversy seems to illustrate a sea change in teaching from an error where a professor set the bar and expect the class to meet it to the more supportive student-centered approach now.
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