Spring 2023 Remote Assignments

Last week, the Office of Instruction sent out a scheduling memo to chairs and deans. It has caused a lot of confusion and worry. AFT 2121 President Mary Bravewoman spoke with David Martin about this and has confirmed that some of the directives of that memo will NOT be enforced. This comes directly from David Martin, as of Wednesday 9/28.

— For Spring 2023 only: Temporary remote instruction WILL be allowed. Instructors will NOT need to be enrolled in IOTL training and the class will NOT need to be on track for IOTL in order to be scheduled as temporary remote.

He still intends to hold departments to the 9/30/22 deadline to determine which classes should be temporary remote, although he acknowledges that there will need to be some flexibility after that date.

That means if your class should be temporary remote for Spring, and you thought it wouldn’t be allowed, talk to your chair immediately – today – and see if you can arrange it.

He intends for temporary remote to be completely eliminated by Summer 2023. He acknowledges that the IOTL training system will need some work to make that happen, and told us that there will be funding for additional IOTL training available soon.