(Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)
California State University, Los Angeles announced this week that professors will be allowed to move their classes online after students expressed concerns about commuting to campus during the ongoing immigration raids and protests in the city.
In a letter this week, Cal State LA leaders informed professors that they can teach their classes entirely online due to recent events in Los Angeles. While the school has not experienced any immigration raids or protests on campus, events in the city have many students “scared to take public transit and fearful of driving to campus” during the school’s summer session.
The letter said that the school’s policies allow professors leeway when deciding to give students excused absences and make up work, adding that the faculty has “the option of working remotely for a limited time due to extraordinary circumstances they are facing.”…