Excerpt from WKEF/WRGT
Wright State University is on the track to normalcy after three weeks of faculty striking. Professors on Tuesday said they are energized to be back on campus with their students.
“I was happy to see my students, of course, and a number of them were happy to see me," Senior English Lecturer Bobby Rubin said. "Students have been through a lot, and they were very nice when they went to class."
Professors said that although they are happy to be back, getting back up to speed is taking some time and adjustments.
"We've been trying to figure out what the other teachers covered, what they didn’t cover," Assistant Engineering Professor Luther Palmer said. "Sometimes they changed the direction of the course as we laid it out, so kind of getting with the students to figure it out."
One anthropology student ABC 22/FOX 45 spoke to said three of her five courses were affected by the strike. Jordan Buffington said some didn’t have teachers, while others had substitutes.
“I haven’t been going," she said, "so now I’ve been trying to help the students around me transition back and help my faculty transition back, and trying to make it a little easier for everybody."
The university is trying to make it an easy transition as well, allowing students that dropped classes last week to re-enroll at no charge.
The administration is switching some full course classes to term B, while cancelling some courses and offering others in their place.
