Work with the whole UMD community to create a more compassionate and just plan for protecting all our community members!

President Darryll Pines

Last week we published an open letter to the leadership of the University of Maryland asking for a more compassionate and just plan for protecting all of our community members.

UMD leadership must create COVID-19 policies with instructor and student input

Please see our full letter to UMD administration here and sign on to our open letter by filling in the form (on the right) to tell university leadership that you too want a more compassionate and just plan for protecting all of our community members!

Then share this call for signatures with your colleagues and any UMD listservs you are a part of.

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To: President Darryll Pines
From: UMD AAUP

This university’s leadership needs to consult with the campus community before instituting such policies. Period.

It should temporarily reinstate the classroom mask protections while it works with instructors and students to develop a more refined in-class mask protection policy.

We need a more compassionate and just plan for protecting all of this university’s community members, especially those who are most vulnerable. We need transparency about conditions on our campus and about the administration’s decision-making processes. Above all, we need a meaningful voice in decisions affecting our health and our very lives.

University leadership must fulfill its responsibility to protect the health and safety of all university members and the surrounding community with new holistic protections.