The Miami administration are trying their very hardest to wish away COVID — to simply manifest that it no longer affects college life. Unfortunately, COVID and its variants (especially the new, more antibody-resistant ones like BA.5) just don’t work like that.
As leaders in the Division of Student Life, all of whom reside in Oxford, we are opposed to the DORA expansion.
Earlier this month, Ohio legislators introduced HB 616, which would disallow curriculum or instruction pertaining to “diversity, equity and inclusion” (including Critical Race Theory and Intersectional Theory), and — like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law — would prohibit or censor curriculum or instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity, from kindergarten through high school.
I’d urge you to reach out to your lawmakers to share your thoughts on the bill, your thoughts on education in Ohio. Whether you support the bill or you oppose it, make your voice heard.
It's time to put an end to decisions that place the institution before its people – its students, staff, and faculty.
For surveillance testing, our team decided that the equation had shifted to burdens outweighing benefits, and it was therefore unethical to continue the program.
Fear doesn’t always lead to good policy making. Fear gets in the way of bringing people together.
The legacy I want to leave at Miami is motivating and empowering our community to actively fight for respect and be critical of our purpose.
The free exchange of ideas is enshrined in our Constitution and the foundation of the democratic process. Slowly, these ideals are eroding.
Faculty are increasingly concerned that expansions of academic workloads resulting from the pandemic are not just emergency measures, but permanent changes
I hope the rest of my life is a lot better with you than what I have experienced here. I’m sure it will be.
These stickers espouse abhorrent anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, deeply racist ideologies which do not belong anywhere in the code of love and honor which our university so prides itself on.
If the students are unwilling to return to the discussion, the sound of their departing feet tells us all we really need to know.
In an earlier message to the university community, the Provost “empower[ed] deans, chairs, and faculty members to make decisions...for how they will meet the needs of their classes for fall.” Let’s follow through on that promise, empowering each of us to teach, learn, and work in the way that works best for us.
Through these last few weeks of separation, many of us have been thinking about what it means to have “Love and Honor.” Being away from Oxford has been more difficult than many of us anticipated, causing us to reflect on what makes being a Miami student so great in the first place.
