Matthew Cheney describes Cruelty-Free Syllabi on episode 296 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Students don’t enter a classroom immediately trusting a teacher. 

A lot of my work, a lot of my career, and a lot of the moments that were most tense were moments where I had forgotten to trust students.
-Matthew Cheney

Respect students as human beings.
-Matthew Cheney

Students don’t enter a classroom immediately trusting a teacher.
-Matthew Cheney

We get used to a bureaucratic academic language that we oftentimes just inherit .
-Matthew Cheney

Resources Mentioned

Toward Cruelty-Free Syllabi

Teaching in Higher Ed