Paying for Their Own Safety
26th August 2021
At the University of Texas at Austin, where professors have repeatedly and unsuccessfully pushed for an indoor mask mandate, vaccine requirement and regular testing, one policy adds insult to injury: the university says that faculty members and programs may offer nonacademic incentives of up to $50 each to students to get them to wear masks in class, but it’s not footing the bill for any of these rewards.
OF COURSE the Professors want to put the burden of keeping themselves safe on the students. Don’ they know who we are?