<p>Matthew Cheney describes Cruelty-Free Syllabi on episode 296 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br />
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<h2>Quotes from the episode</h2>
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<p>A lot of my work, a lot of my career, and a lot of the moments that were most tense were moments where I had forgotten to trust students.<br />
-Matthew Cheney</p>
<p>Respect students as human beings.<br />
-Matthew Cheney</p>
<p>Students don’t enter a classroom immediately trusting a teacher.<br />
-Matthew Cheney</p>
<p>We get used to a bureaucratic academic language that we oftentimes just inherit .<br />
-Matthew Cheney</p>
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<h2>Resources Mentioned</h2>
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<li><a href="https://hyflexworld.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/hybrid-flexible-course-and-program-design-models-for-student-directed-hybrids/">David Rhoads &#8211; hyflex learning</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.jessestommel.com/">Jesse Stommel</a></li>
<li><a href="https://colab.plymouthcreate.net/resource/opening-a-syllabus/">Opening a Syllabus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r45gn0vdnCAlM_aQrX_6NnC0yHiN_GLCBDWG0tjteSI/edit#slide=id.p">Cruelty-Free Syllabi</a></li>
<li><a href="https://colab.plymouthcreate.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Open-Syllabus.pdf">Radical Open Syllabi</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2016/03/02/why-my-students-design-syllabus-fight4edu">Why My Students Design the Syllabus #fight4edu, by Cathy Davidson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://robinderosa.net/higher-ed/extreme-makeover-pedagogy-edition/">Extreme Makeover: Pedagogy Edition, by Robin DeRosa</a></li>
<li><a href="https://colab.plymouthcreate.net/resource/ungrading/">Ungrading Workshop Resources</a></li>
<li><a href="http://saragoldrickrab.com/">Sara Goldrick-Rab</a></li>
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