So Marcellus, a professor of journalism at Middle Tennessee, requested an accommodation to teach remotely. The request was promptly denied, for being “too late.” Marcellus, 64, responded to the denial with her resignation. I keep thinking of the horrible irony of getting COVID this semester would be, after making it this far,” Marcellus wrote in a letter to her dean. “I have things I want to do, things I want to write, and I need my health for all of it.” James Tierney, an assistant teaching professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University at State College, has a similar story: when the university denied his request to teach his 590-person introductory course online this fall due to COVID-19, he contemplated resigning right away. Tierney is relatively young with no underlying health issues, but it seemed so wrong to him to convene hundreds of people in one room with masks but no vaccine mandate. Not wanting to burden a colleague with his fall course load, Tierney agreed to teach this term. But he let Penn State know it would be his last.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/08/24/more-professors-quit-over-face-face-teaching-mandates
