Zach S
Zach S
@shatleyz.tngl.sh
On staff at @appalachianstate.bsky.social
Sometimes wrangling noise at a concert near you 🎙️

Boone, NC
Managed to avoid spending ~$2000 on audio equipment I don't need this weekend, please clap
December 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Reposted by Zach S
I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.

A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM