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[quote=Anonymous]Another college professor here. I’m sorry your daughter is in this situation, but she may not have much recourse if the professor isn’t in violation of university policy. If the faculty member teaching it thinks the pedagogical goals of the course can only be met in person and there is no departmental or university policy against it, it’s unlikely that appealing to a higher authority will be helpful. It can’t hurt to reach out to the department chair, but you should know that very few people at a university can actually intervene in a professor’s course and they tend to be high-ranking. Most people at a university who are called deans do not have any supervisory role over faculty.  Anyone called a dean of students would not have authority over faculty, although the actual dean of a college or school would, as would the provost. But I would not go up the chain of command about a particular course. First, have your student find out what the reasons are for being in-person and whether the professor has plans for what to do if students get sick or must quarantine. This should definitely be your student, not you, although feel free to coach her on the email. You should also know that setting up a course for simultaneous in-person learning and distance learning is actually quite complicated and and requires a lot of technology. It may not be possible for the professor to do both, especially if it is a lab course or something similar. But there should still be a plan for students if they get sick or if they have medical reasons for not being able to attend in person, even setting aside the mandatory disability accommodations.   [/quote]

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