美國有多個學術組織，共同為下面的聲明進行簽署：
Courses are moving online; campuses are closing; conferences are cancelled. These changes are already generating significant consequences for institutions, faculty, and students. In response to these rapidly changing and uncertain conditions, several institutions have announced changes to their faculty review and reappointment processes, including allowing one-year tenure clock extensions and limiting how student evaluations of teaching from this term will be used.
The American Sociological Association (ASA), in collaboration with the scholarly societies listed below, commends these institutions for quickly taking steps to recognize the parameters of our current context and encourages all institutions of higher education to consider appropriate temporary adjustments to their review and reappointment processes for tenure line and contingent faculty.
簡單地說，課程改成線上，校園關閉，不能開會，這些無形之中影響從事教職的人。
在這項聲明裡，提出了幾個建議：
- 續約、升等的時間，自動延長一年；
- 有限度地使用這個學期的學生評鑑，在今年以及之後續約、升等時；
- 調整對教授在學術方面的要求
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