College Professor Offers Thanksgiving Dinner To Her Students….All Of Them
By kncipat on November 30, 2020
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A communications professor at the University Of Iowa offered up Thanksgiving Dinner to her students. As in all of them. Elizabeth Pearce who goes by Professor Liz has been teaching most of her students virtually this semester. She’s seen struggles, loneliness with some of her students even testing positive for Covid. One week before Thanksgiving she sent the following email to her class:
One of Professor Liz’s students, Leah Blask, was so moved by her teacher’s kindness that she shared the email on twitter saying, “My professor is absolutely too pure for this world.” The tweet now stands at over 900,000 likes and hundreds of supportive comments.
Liz says she admires her students. Many, she says, are doing the course work while sick. Others have lost part time jobs. “I think they’re juggling a lot of difficult fights right now. And in talking with the students I just felt like maybe they needed a big of a pick-me-up.”
Thank you Liz for being the good and reminding us that it’s called Thanksgiving for a reason.