Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FLA, expects all students and employees to use indoor masks, "Without exceptions," said on Tuesday, the same day that a former president of the department published his story to give up on the lack of lack of a mask mandate.
"Yesterday, on the first day of classes for the academic year 21-22, I resigned the Aeronautical University of Embry-Riddle after 21 years and a few days because the university coeled the policies were wrong, "Timothy Wilson, former president of electrical engineering and computer science, wrote on LinkedIn. "Embry-Riddle would not allow faculty members to require those in their classrooms and those in their necessary offices in the masks, and the university would not allow the faculty with specific concerns about their own health or the health of others to teach remote form".
Feel "Back to normal" For a short period At the end of spring and early summer it was great, Wilson explains in the piece of it, but the rise of the Delta variant changed things. Embry-Riddle Covid-19 policies, meanwhile, have not changed. That is a problem, especially in an institution dedicated to the safety of science and aviation, he said.
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"The Ethics of Engineering begins to protect the health, safety and well-being of the public," Wilson wrote. "Requiring masks in classrooms and nearby spaces, as offices, is a cheap and effective strategy to reduce COVID transmission, as demonstrated by ERU experience during the academic year 20-21".
Among other prevention measures Covid-19, Embry -riddle requires masks in the last academic year. In one note of May announcing the resumption of "normal operations", the university continued to promote vaccination, but said that the masks were now optional.
Earlier this month, the university made several announcements encouraging masking inside, especially in the classrooms.
did not announce a mandate, despite the motives of the Senate of the Faculty and other groups and individuals to do so.
Wilson said in the renunciation of him that he had spoken at an orientation event last week, where only about 20 percent of the attendees wore masks. He said he also directed a colleague who was against college policy saying that students were "expected" masking in class. googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("DFP-AD -Article_in_Article"););
Wilson had that chat with the colleague, he said, but he was "disgusted with myself".
is an expectation 'really a policy'?
The University says the new policy of it, an "expectation" that students, employees and visitors use masks in the interior, are not related to Wilson's resignation. He also denies that politics is a mandate, or that constitutes any investment of the previous position in masking.
Ginger Pinholster, Spokesman for the University, said on Tuesday that Embry-Riddle enigma "does not have a mask mandate and did not issue one today. Today's university leadership made it clear that using masks in Interiors and by plane is a cultural expectation in Embry-Riddle, consisting of our strong aviation safety culture. "
The University "continues to associate with our exceptional faculty members to improve security and defend our education mission," added Pinholster.
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