In March, when the university I work for in New York City decided to suspend all in-person classes and transition online, I worried about the challenges that I was going to face as a professor.
After months of online teaching, I’ve gathered some of the strategies that in my experience have helped me involve the students and not lose too many elements of in-person lectures. Read the full article here.
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Italian people’s first reaction to the coronavirus was to have a good laugh. Not because they didn’t believe the virus was a real issue, but because that’s just how we like to process big changes in my home country.
By Feb. 23, there were 152 confirmed cases in Italy. Yet many people were still skeptical, assuming the virus was probably no different than the regular flu.
Molly Meisels, a student at Yeshiva University, wanted to invite assemblymember Deborah Glick to talk about her experience as New York’s first openly gay legislator to the school’s College Democrats club. The university administration had other ideas.
Two weeks before the event took place, Meisels said she was called into an office and asked not to advertise the event in any way as LGBTQ-related and not to ask the assemblymember LGBTQ-related questions. “They told me that someone from higher up in the university was trying to stop the event from happening,” she said.
Dopo le traduzioni in francese e tedesco, il romanzo di debutto “Grandangolo” dello scrittore torinese Simone Somekh sarà tradotto anche in russo.
I genitori di Adam Seef, un adolescente ebreo appartenente ad una comunità ortodossa modern di Johannesburg, in Sud Africa, mai si sarebbero potuti immaginare che non l’avrebbero visto tornare dal viaggio in Israele organizzato dall’associazione giovanile ebraica Ohrsom Student.
Al suo posto, sono giunti diversi messaggi, scritti sul suo smartphone prima che Adam si togliesse la vita.
«Provare a fingere di essere qualcosa che non sono di fronte a tutti voi sta diventando più difficile ogni giorno che passa, perché non sono l’eterosessuale che fingo di essere. Avrei voluto potervi dire tutto, e so che avreste capito, ma sotto sotto, so che il nostro rapporto sarebbe cambiato», ha scritto Adam in uno dei messaggi indirizzati ai suoi cari, riportati dal quotidiano sudafricano Sunday Times. «Vedo [i miei amici] allontanarsi da me, trovare il successo e l’amore eterosessuale, lasciandomi solo ed isolato».
