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Students don’t have time for extra assigned readings

By: Michelle Young, Staff Writer While weekly readings are a valuable resource that provide context, perspectives, and research material to students, they are also very time-consuming. Professors sometimes neglect to acknowledge that students take multiple classes in a semester — all of which require the same amount of reading, depending on the discipline.  Now that we’re learning remotely, I’ve found that many of my professors have added additional mandatory material, demanding more readings, videos, and extra activities to be completed. While it’s great that professors are trying to compensate for the lack of in-person classes, they also need to recognize that…

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