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Student leaders suspend sit-in, reach agreement with UCLA administrators
By Kalani Seymore, Feb. 17, 2022, Daily Bruin
Students’ 16-day sit-in is now over. Student leaders decided Wednesday morning to suspend their 16-day sit-in at Murphy Hall after reaching an agreement with UCLA administrators regarding their demands for increased accessibility and education equity. The protestors had planned to occupy the hallway in front of Chancellor Gene Block’s office until the administration agreed to expand hybrid learning options for all classes and accommodate students with disabilities and immunocompromised students. Student representatives from the Disabled Student Union, Mother Organizations coalition and the Undergraduate Students Association Council reached the deal with UCLA Wednesday morning, said Samone Anderson, the Afrikan Student Union chairperson.
On Saturday, Block and Monroe Gorden Jr., the vice chancellor of student affairs, agreed to write a joint letter in support of hybrid education that will be sent to UCLA faculty with resources to provide online options, said Christopher Ikonomou, a DSU member and third-year communication student...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2022/02/17/student-leaders-suspend-sit-in-reach-agreement-with-ucla-administrators.
Most classrooms are not equipped with cameras, adequate microphones, etc. You would really need a TA looking after the "broadcast" side of the class to coordinate it with the in-person component. There would need to be one and probably more cameras and microphones installed in each classroom and a tech operator. Of course, it has long been possible to do something like the 1950s TV Sunrise Semester as below, but that is not the hybrid that folks have in mind:
Or direct to: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x82w9kb.
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