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As it encourages more students to return to campus, the University of Florida implemented a feature to allow students to report when professors teach remotely classes they were scheduled to teach in-person.
The University of Florida altered its controversial Gator Safe app course concern reporting button Friday, creating an open text box for students to outline complaints. Despite having the "most explicitly obnoxious" portion of the course concern button removed, the Graduate Assistants United union is still calling for the entire reporting section to go away, it announced Saturday via email. The app's change came after a series of public complaints on Twitter from angry professors and students, disapproval from the UF faculty union and, according to university spokeswoman Cynthia Roldan, ...
Administrators at the University of Florida are so concerned that professors will refuse to teach in person this semester that theyâre asking students to use an app to report any professor who teaches online instead. And some professors are outraged by the tactic. The university added new options to its campus safety app, called Gator Safe, asking students to report any âface-to-face/online course concern,â such as if âinstructor modified the class to virtual.â Many faculty members have requested to teach online for the spring, out of concern for their health as the C...
Incensed University of Florida professors have taken to Twitter to protest a new button feature on students' Gator Safe phone application for students to report "course concerns" about their instructors if a class isn't being held in person. After being arm-twisted to teach in-person classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, some faculty members suggested the UF administration's move is a last nail in the coffin and said they are considering resigning. "It is causing great outrage in the community," said Paul Ortiz, president of the university's faculty union and director of the Samuel Procto...