Georgia Southern is setting the groundwork to blame students for the very situation they caused by bringing students back to campus and forcing them and faculty to meet face-to-face when other safer options were available. 1/10

From the email sent to all students from the president and the provost:

"If you care about the wellbeing of your friends, their families, your faculty and the staff that support you; if you want to preserve the health of our campus and local communities; if you desire to... 2/10

... continue the semester in-person and enjoy the learning experience you expect from Georgia Southern; and if you hope to continue this semester alongside your friends and fellow students, then we must follow these practices always – on and off campus." 3/10

I want to shout back, "if you had cared about your employees and your students you would have planned a return to classes that didn't include forcing faculty to teach face-to-face and students to attend face-to-face classes when there are perfectly viable options that... 4/10

...would arguably be more pedagogically sound and less disruptive than having multiple students and faculty having to isolate or quarantine for weeks on end... Instead, you chose to bring tens of thousands of students back to campus and expect them to avoid all... 5/10

... socializing IN THE VERY ENVIRONMENT THAT ENCOURAGES SUCH. And then you blame them, shaking your heads as if this is shocking news that college kids are going to get together. Also, way to make students hesitate to report that they're sick if they fear retaliation... 6/10

...for having been to a party or a bar. Let's just silence everyone." But I know my voice won't be heard.

Meanwhile, in a college faculty meeting today, our provost informed us: "we won't be going online like all the other univs whose GREEK ORGS caused them to go online." 7/10

This warning comes today, as Bulloch county's cases number 133, which is up 61 (more than double) from yesterday's number, which was up 43 from the day before. 8/10

As the Chronicle of Higher Ed stated, universities have lost the moral high ground to blame their students. Not a good look. "Institutions have always profited off risky social behavior. Complaints now ring hollow." https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-lost-the-moral-authority-to-blame-students 9/10

Our students deserve better.

My colleagues deserve better.

It didn't have to be this way.

10/10