University of Chicago prof canceled midterm test and encouraged students to join protest against ‘authoritarian’ Trump

University of Chicago prof canceled midterm test and encouraged students to join protest against ‘authoritarian’ Trump

A statistics professor encouraged students to protest against the Trump administration after canceling their midterms, according to an email sent to University of Chicago students. Yali Amit told students in his machine learning and large-scale data analysis class that their midterm test was being canceled and would be administered as a homework assignment instead. Amit wrote in the email that they should join a nationwide protest against Presid…

University of Chicago prof canceled midterm test and encouraged students to join protest against 'authoritarian' Trump

The university said only that the professor's action was not 'appropriate.'

U. Chicago Prof Cancels Midterm, Tells Students to Join Anti-Trump Protest Instead

"As a small contribution to this day of action I am cancelling the midterm and calling you, if you are able, to join the Chicago demonstration"

‘Inappropriate’: UChicago professor cancels exam so students can protest Trump

Yali Amit calls it his ‘small contribution’ to anti-Trump movement University of Chicago students were excused from a midterm exam so they could protest Donald Trump and Elon Musk, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Yali Amit, an anti-Israel professor, canceled the May 1 exam at the elite university and allowed students to submit the test as a homework assignment… Source

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