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A Professor's Threat: Cameras during Testing Situations

Posted on May 5, 2020, this Reddit posts featured student dialogue around whether or not instructors can viably take action against CUNY students who refused to enable their cameras during testing situations. Responders then negotiated the classroom [...]

Item Type: Social Media Post
Time Period: 2020 and Beyond: CUNY in the Era of COVID and Racial Reckoning
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Distance Learning, Pedagogy
Tags: academic dishonesty, assessment, assessment policies, COVID-19, CUNY Distance Learning Archive, Fall 2020, Queens College, social media, student privacy, synchronous learning
Petition in Opposition to Turnitin for Plagiarism Detection Software

This petition – opposing the CUNY Central administration's resolution to approve a contract with Turnitin for Plagiarism Detection Software – was crafted by Lisa Rhody, Luke Waltzer, and Roxanne Shirazi and circulated on December 3, 2020, [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 2020 and Beyond: CUNY in the Era of COVID and Racial Reckoning
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Austerity, Board of Trustees, CUNY Administration, Distance Learning, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget
Tags: assessment policies, contract renewal, CUNY academic works, CUNY Central, CUNY Distance Learning Archive, CUNY Graduate Center, educational technology, Fall 2020, petitions, procurement, student privacy, surveillance, Technology
Do Not Let CUNY Violate Student Privacy Change.org Petition

This Change.org petition – supported by multiple student organizations at on CUNY's Brooklyn, John Jay, Baruch, Queens, BMCC, Hunter, York, and CSI College campuses – called for the City University of New York (CUNY) system to disavow intrusive [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 2020 and Beyond: CUNY in the Era of COVID and Racial Reckoning
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Distance Learning, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: academic dishonesty, assessment policies, Baruch College, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Brooklyn College, College of Staten Island, CUNY Distance Learning Archive, digital platforms, educational technology, Hunter College, John Jay College, pedagogy, petitions, Queens College, Student Activism, student government, student privacy, surveillance, University Student Senate, York College
"has anyone been told something rather alarming about the final exam policy on Internet outages?"

This Reddit thread, posted on April 2, 2020, documented one student's concerns over the assessment policies of their class if they were to suffer a network outage and were unable to complete a given test as a result of such connectivity concerns. [...]

Item Type: Social Media Post
Time Period: 2020 and Beyond: CUNY in the Era of COVID and Racial Reckoning
Subjects: Distance Learning, Health and/or Environmental Issues, Pedagogy
Tags: assessment, assessment policies, broadband, CUNY Distance Learning Archive, online teaching practices, pedagogy

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