Call to Action: Protect the Syracuse community from COVID-19
The Issue
#NotAgainSU was on a hiatus of sorts over the past year but remained committed to working behind the scenes on behalf of our communities. However, in light of Syracuse University fully reopening the campus during a deadly pandemic, we again felt compelled to act.
Classes have not yet begun and the public health alert level has already been raised to red. We’ve also heard reports that several faculty fell ill to COVID after attending a faculty orientation this past week alone.
Syracuse University has announced its plan for the school year. It includes returning to fully in-person classes, lax testing requirements, dining and event spaces resuming full capacity, and all this at the cost of endangering everyone's health, especially harming the disabled and immunocompromised people in our community.
#NotAgainSU is calling on you to strike from in-person learning.
If you hold classes at Syracuse University, we encourage you to not hold your classes in-person as the university asked of you, but instead in an online format. Alternatively, you can also strike by continuing to teach in person but allowing any and all students to join your class virtually if they wish.
If you are a student at Syracuse University, we encourage you to not attend in-person classes, and to request of your own teachers and departments to approve the option to attend classes virtually.
We ask that both striking staff and students strike until Syracuse University formally agrees to approve the option for every student and teacher to participate in online learning if they wish.
Taking action in a time like this is not only justified but necessary. Only direct action can apply pressure and encourage the Syracuse University administration to turn to online learning or, at the very least, a hybrid model of learning that will accommodate both teachers and students who are uncomfortable with and/or unable to attend in-person classes.
If you are willing to take action to keep your community safe during this pandemic, please consider signing your name to this petition & emailing your departments/Syracuse University administration given the attached template. When the link is accessed, you will be directed to press a button that says “Create E-mail” which will auto-generate an email that you can modify.
If you hold classes at SU, we have provided a link to a form that will allow us to keep track (privately) of who is striking from in-person learning without putting you at risk of retaliation from the university.
If you attended classes at SU, we have provided a link to a form that will allow us to keep track (privately) of who is striking from in-person learning.
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The Issue
#NotAgainSU was on a hiatus of sorts over the past year but remained committed to working behind the scenes on behalf of our communities. However, in light of Syracuse University fully reopening the campus during a deadly pandemic, we again felt compelled to act.
Classes have not yet begun and the public health alert level has already been raised to red. We’ve also heard reports that several faculty fell ill to COVID after attending a faculty orientation this past week alone.
Syracuse University has announced its plan for the school year. It includes returning to fully in-person classes, lax testing requirements, dining and event spaces resuming full capacity, and all this at the cost of endangering everyone's health, especially harming the disabled and immunocompromised people in our community.
#NotAgainSU is calling on you to strike from in-person learning.
If you hold classes at Syracuse University, we encourage you to not hold your classes in-person as the university asked of you, but instead in an online format. Alternatively, you can also strike by continuing to teach in person but allowing any and all students to join your class virtually if they wish.
If you are a student at Syracuse University, we encourage you to not attend in-person classes, and to request of your own teachers and departments to approve the option to attend classes virtually.
We ask that both striking staff and students strike until Syracuse University formally agrees to approve the option for every student and teacher to participate in online learning if they wish.
Taking action in a time like this is not only justified but necessary. Only direct action can apply pressure and encourage the Syracuse University administration to turn to online learning or, at the very least, a hybrid model of learning that will accommodate both teachers and students who are uncomfortable with and/or unable to attend in-person classes.
If you are willing to take action to keep your community safe during this pandemic, please consider signing your name to this petition & emailing your departments/Syracuse University administration given the attached template. When the link is accessed, you will be directed to press a button that says “Create E-mail” which will auto-generate an email that you can modify.
If you hold classes at SU, we have provided a link to a form that will allow us to keep track (privately) of who is striking from in-person learning without putting you at risk of retaliation from the university.
If you attended classes at SU, we have provided a link to a form that will allow us to keep track (privately) of who is striking from in-person learning.
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Petition created on August 29, 2021