Tweet: School is still open?

This tweet from a City University of New York (CUNY) student pointed out the discrepancy between faculty preparation for online teaching and the continued operation of CUNY campuses. As expressed in other tweets (see the series "Tweet: Lehman President Explanation"), many CUNY campuses were preparing for an online transition before the university's initial decision to close due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, much of this preparation remained largely unofficial and not transparent to the CUNY student body. As demonstrated in this tweet, this apparent lack of communication created a sense of disconnect between CUNY students and administration, often expressed in a lighthearted fashion through memes.

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.

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CUNY Distance Learning Archive

Twitter

March 10, 2020

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English

https://twitter.com/Storyoftiff/status/1237519327844282368

professors are already talking about online classes and there are cases of the virus in cuny's schools but yet the schools are still open? #closecuny #coronavirus https://t.co/lPYBHXHCS1

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