A lack of basic needs is an obstacle to education. We hope you won't hesitate to let someone in our office know if you need help with food and housing. And i think i would trace my awareness o basic needs back to sarah golber grab. The ideas in it are not my own, the ideas are shared among us here.
Matthew Cheney describes Cruelty-Free Syllabi on episode 296 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A lot of my work, a lot of my career, and a lot of the moments that were most tense were moments where I had forgotten to trust students.
-Matthew Cheney
Respect students as human beings.
-Matthew Cheney
Students don’t enter a classroom immediately trusting a teacher.
-Matthew Cheney
We get used to a bureaucratic academic language that we oftentimes just inherit .
-Matthew Cheney