Tweet: Student Complaint

This tweet questioned the ethical determination behind the City University of New York's (CUNY) continuance of in-person operations at the beginning of the pandemic. Like other artifacts in this section, this tweet expressed the broader CUNY community's perceptions of CUNY administration's reaction to the virus. Although some pointed out that concerns of equity drove CUNY's latency in closure (see "Tweet: Defense of CUNY by Student"), many saw such decisions as a question of gambling with the continued health of the community.

This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Prof. Matthew K. Gold's Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, the project wanted to document the moment of crisis response by taking a critical approach to educational technology.

truss me

CUNY Distance Learning Archive

Twitter

March 10, 2020

English

https://twitter.com/trussme6/status/1237406189153124355

@CUNY How is it ethical that you guys are literally waiting for someone to get sick so then you can cancel classes. Wtf..kinda scary if u ask me #cancelcuny #cuny #COVID2019

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