Many UNC faculty members, professors and teaching assistants are petitioning UNC administration to guarantee that no instructor will be required to teach in person during the fall 2020 semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic and other concerns. Host Evely Forte spoke to DTH reporter and incoming assistant copy editor Sasha Schroeder and incoming assistant online editor Praveena Somasundaram to understand what the petitioners are really demanding and how they hope the University will implement potential changes. Reporting by Sasha Schroeder and Praveena Somasundaram. Episode co-edited and co-produced by Evely Forte and Meredith Radford. 

For further reading:

• 'This is something that's killing people’: Instructors petition for fall teaching options, by Sasha Schroeder 
• Remote teaching preferred for fall semester, faculty survey indicates, by Praveena Somasundaram