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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes you professors so much more special than anyone else that needs to make a living and has to interact with the general public?

It looks to me like there might be some job openings coming up in academia![/quote]

Ever heard of a thing called tenure? A professor is not going to be fired for asking to teach a different class or moving their class online if they deem it not to be safe to teach on campus. You clearly don't work in academia.
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I am in academia. And most schools are not going to let each professor decide what they want to teach and how they will teach it. Tenure or no. These decisions are made at an institutional level.[/quote]

Not at my large institution. It's at the department level. Maybe at a small school it works that way. [/quote]

+1  These kinds of decisions are at the department level in my school too.  We have a meeting, we discuss what courses need to be offered and faculty decide which they want to teach when based on what courses students need to complete their degrees and what courses we think will benefit their learning.  I can decide if I want to teach on-line, hybrid or not, what course(s) make sense and how they are taught. If the minimum required students enroll, it meets my  teaching obligation.  If less than the minimum enroll, I have to cancel the course and take on a different one, use a course release from a research grant, use up a prior course overload etc.  The only thing different now is that I may be obligated to teach on-line if health/safety suggestions make that an institutional policy--such as this semester when my courses shifted to on-line when the university closed face-to-face operations.  Few schools--if any--are going to force a professor to teach in person. [/quote]

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