A related but unmentioned aspect of the problem, though, is how professors are the fulcrum of the online switch. Expectations of us went up hugely: not just sudden course redesign and new tools, but solving accessibility issues in multiple formats, more emotional support /1 https://twitter.com/justjen2015/status/1246041780862308354

...all while living in the same crisis conditions. Not a personal complaint; I’m in a pretty good situation, just w much higher workload. But I see colleagues wrestling with it - student needs shot up, usual university supports less accessible, we’re the hinge in the middle /2

Twitter is full of academics exhorting their colleagues to do different things! more things! kinder! faster!- and that’s important. But we should also recognize that professors aren’t unaffected by the crisis themselves /3

Just waving a small flag for the professors I know who were amazingly dedicated before all this, who’ve redoubled their efforts, and who are facing some pretty unreasonable expectations right now, seemingly from all directions
/end cri de coeur

Wait, one ps: this is all even more an issue for adjuncts and other contingent faculty, who face the same teaching conditions with less security and support