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Colleagues, fyi, below is a letter that a majority of Chairs and Directors in CLAS sent to the Provost yesterday afternoon.</div>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Dear Provost Bichelmeyer --</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">On Father’s Day a group of faculty members representing multiple departments and programs throughout KU met to discuss correspondence presented to us last week from you and the Chancellor. Due
to social distancing concerns and family commitments, many who have been involved in the effort could not join us in person but participated remotely.</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">In advance of the 6/24 deadline for the Provost’s Office classroom spreadsheet,<span> </span><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">several chairs agreed to share the following major
points that reflect on the problematic and highly tentative nature of what we have been asked to carry out by the Provost’s Office. </span></span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">The plan to use the ADA as the mechanism whereby instructors (faculty, adjuncts and GTAs) receive permission to be exempted from in-person teaching is impossibly unwieldy, discriminatory and perhaps
illegal.<span> </span><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">The process raises weighty confidentiality concerns, and we believe that many urgent questions remain to be answered about the interface of ADA with EEOC and with occupational health
and safety protections.<span> </span></span>The plan asks instructors to divulge personal health (including mental health) information that is not in fact counted as a disability by law in order to learn that our request may have been denied. In addition,
many of the concerns our colleagues have that teaching in person may not be safe are not necessarily related to personal health but are rather family or household- based concerns that this approach simply fails to acknowledge as legitimate.<span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white"><span> </span>The
necessity for deliberation on, for example, the accommodations available to instructors with eldercare responsibilities</span><span> </span>or with children with special needs is completely left out of the ADA model.</span></li></ol>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">We assert chairs should submit the spreadsheet taking into account individual faculty preferences to teach online, without waiting for or requiring ADA approval. Such approval (1) is unlikely or
not possible in many cases by the June 24 deadline, (2) may not be likely for many issues that may impact workplace safety, such as age or family responsibility concerns, and (3) not something that chairs can ask of faculty without violating privacy rules.
Everyone in attendance at the meeting felt that our proposals for our fall curricula as academic officers of our units should be accepted without further investigation or vetting by ADA and HR officers. </span></li></ol>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Because plans for socially distancing protocols and their enforcement are undeveloped and we are not being seen as central to the process whereby our classes can be safely and effectively organized
we believe that a statement from an instructor indicating that they do not trust that they are returning to a safe workplace be accepted as sufficient reason for not returning to in person teaching.</span></li></ol>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Respectfully,</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Dave Roediger (outgoing, American Studies)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Ani Kokobobo (Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Nick Syrett (Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Robert Warrior (incoming, American Studies)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Dave Mechem (Geography and Atmospheric Science)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Michael Vitevitch (Psychology)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Florence D. DiGennaro Reed (Applied Behavioral Science)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Maria E. Orive (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Henry Bial (Theater and Dance)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Don Haider-Markel (Political Science)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Milena Stanislavova (Economics)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">David Slusky (Associate Chair, Economics)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Tarun Sabarwal (Associate Chair, Economics)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Jie Zhang (Interim, Linguistics)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Kelly Chong (Sociology)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Vitaly Chernetsky (outgoing, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Marta Caminero-Santangelo (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Renee Perelmutter (Jewish Studies)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Cecile Accilien (outgoing, African and African American Studies)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Marc Greenberg (outgoing, School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Shannon O’Lear (incoming, Environmental Studies)</span></p>
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<span lang="en" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Avenir Book"">Luciano Tosta (incoming, Center for Global and International Studies)</span></p>
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