International students struggle to access information amid COVID-19 crisis The school’s efforts to ensure a smooth transition to remote learning had a political blind spot, she said in a recent interview. “The same curriculum that we could deliver privately in the classroom is now going to be subject to monitoring in countries around the world.”She said she flagged the issue to university officials, who sent a memo to instructors before classes began encouraging them to offer alternative course content for students who live in “authoritarian” states.“This is not a call to censor the course material or guide assessments: critically exploring issues and topics deemed by authoritarian states as problematic are a keystone of the role that a.