UF professors: University's spring plan will unnecessarily endanger lives
Constance Shehan, Kendal Broad-Wright and Pamela Gilbert Guest columnists We are professors at the University of Florida. We write with concern about the risks and limitations of the university’s plan for spring 2021. Moving classes back to face-to-face format will endanger lives, unnecessarily. Moreover, the reality is that the last-minute improvised plan for undergraduate education at UF next semester will not provide the best, or even a sufficient, learning and teaching environment. UF — wisely — closed campus in March. Now, we are very close to being able to vaccinate people and r...