Charles H.F. Davis III speaks with the Chronicle of Higher Education about how professors addressed the election results in class
Davis shared his class plan on X, hoping it could serve as a model for colleagues.
Before the results of the 2024 election were known, CSHPE Assistant Professor Charles H.F. Davis III had considered how he would address the event with his students. Once the results were in, he wrote an e-mail to students in his interdisciplinary graduate course, “Power, Privilege, and the Politics of Difference.” He also published the e-mail on X as a model for other professors who were contemplating how to talk about the election with their classes.
Davis told the Chronicle of Higher Education that students “expect professors to demonstrate moral and ethical leadership.”
He designed his class to give time first to student presentations that had been previously scheduled before opening up a discussion about the election by examining preliminary voting data.
Davis noted that not every professor is positioned to lead this kind of discussion, however he insisted that institutions have a responsibility to provide students with other resources for responding to the election beyond the classroom.
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