Some Colleges Require Faculty to Use Trigger Warnings
Professors who don’t use trigger warnings will be investigated.
The College Fix reports.
Several colleges require faculty to use trigger warnings – just not explicitly
Think the University of Chicago was overreacting when it told incoming students that “we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’” and that it’s actually an infringement of academic freedom to tell professors they can’t use them in class (which UChicago did not in fact do)?
Well, look at the schools that are enforcing trigger warnings against their own faculty.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education quickly identified at least five schools – most prominently Drexel University in Philadelphia – that suggest professors who don’t use trigger warnings will be investigated. They all feature this identical language in sexual-misconduct policies:
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Several colleges require faculty to use trigger warnings – just not explicitly (The College Fix)
Several colleges require faculty to use trigger warnings – just not explicitly (The College Fix)
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When I started engineering school long ago the Calc I professor said look to your left, look to your right, only one of you three will pass this class. That was a trigger warning to work hard. Ended up being about right. I was later told that calculus was the designated culling instrument for poorly qualified admits.