\n\tTuesday Nov. 3 is Election Day across the country. As in past years, the University is encouraging flexible course engagement on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n
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\n\tAccording to a letter to Pitt faculty from Adam Lee, vice provost of undergraduate studies, this guidance is meant to provide space for students who want to participate in civic engagement activities that would otherwise not be possible with strictly in-person synchronous courses.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\u201cThis language was chosen to allow instructors to use a broad set of techniques to be flexible within the bounds of what makes pedagogical sense within their discipline. For instance, an instructor might make use of completely asynchronous activities (e.g., readings, videos, reflective assignments, etc.) rather than synchronous lecture time,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\u201cAlternately, an instructor may choose to offer a typical synchronous lecture, but also provide a recording of that lecture for students who choose to engage with this material at another time and place,\u201d the letter continued.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\u201cWhile laboratory courses requiring specialized equipment are likely to need to remain in-person, this hopefully provides other instructors with a useful degree of flexibility to engage meaningfully with their students on topics scheduled to be covered on Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tThere are three polling places on Pitt\u2019s campus \u2014 Posvar Hall, Bellefield Hall and the William Pitt Union \u2014 which are managed independently by Allegheny County elections officials. There also will be separate marked entrances for each: One designated for voting and one designated for University business and instruction. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday Nov. 3 is Election Day across the country. As in past years, the University is encouraging flexible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1594,10605,497,3398,73,75,74,1164,3315,10604,10603],"class_list":["post-314139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-college","tag-graduate","tag-learning","tag-pitt","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-research","tag-students","tag-undergraduate","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}