Universal Design for Fatigue
Channel: PSU Open
Date: 2021-01-20

This session is primarily for faculty designing and revising spring courses. In this session we will present three perspectives on fatigue, three attempts to grapple with the present and mounting pressures of overwork in the time of COVID-19, and three concrete suggestions for navigating the upcoming semester and beyond. Cait Kirby shares about crip time and spoon theory, Asia Merrill discusses student labor, and Nic Helms warns against overwork. Our shared conclusion is this: pushing back against the ableist, capitalist, and white supremacist expectations of productivity in the academy is crucial to holding back the rising tide of fatigue on our campuses.