If you need a trigger warning to read a book, maybe you’re not ready to attend a university.
The Telegraph UK reports:
Oxford University students say reading lists should come with ‘trigger warnings’
The student union called on Oxford to publish guidance for faculties to consider whether articles on reading lists amount to...
This would be funny if it wasn’t also so incredibly sad.
The Daily Mail reports:
Now snowflake students need to be warned about ‘violent material’ in… FAIRYTALES! Glasgow University gives ‘trigger warnings’ before lessons covering classic Brothers Grimm tales
University...
Even the word “but” is a trigger. This is madness.
The College Fix reports:
Michigan State orders student employees not to say ‘but’ – it’s triggering
Don’t “apologize” to customers. Don’t tell them it’s “no problem” to handle their concerns. Don’t even use the word “but”!
These are some of the trigger words that Michigan...
Is anyone surprised by this? Should anyone who claims to need trigger warnings be in college in the first place?
The College Fix reports:
Research finds trigger warnings have ‘little effect’ on emotional response – even for victims
Are trigger warnings in the classroom helping students better deal with troubling topics in the...
This is actually a great proposal from Cornell professors Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams and Emory University professor Scott O. Lilienfeld.
Together, they wrote this piece for Inside Higher Ed:
The One-Time-Only Trigger Warning
The trigger-warning debate presents faculty members and administrat...
According to the study, trigger warnings may increase a person’s vulnerability to trauma.
The College Fix reports:
Harvard study: Trigger warnings actually harmful to students
A recent study by Harvard University psychologists suggests the very thing academics use to protect their students from possible trauma … may actually end up harming them.
So-called “trigger...
What’s the subtext here? That pro-life events are controversial and students are right to be offended?
The College Fix reports:
University of New Mexico puts trigger warning on pro-life event: ‘may be uncomfortable’
The University of New Mexico is having trouble keeping its rationale straight for forcing its own messaging on campus events hosted...
Five years ago, the term ‘trigger warnings’ didn’t exist. Now they’re imperative to learning.
Campus Reform reports:
Feminist prof says trigger warnings ‘imperative’ for learning
A self-described “feminist” professor at New York University is urging colleagues to use trigger warnings in...
The school wanted all pro-life displays to include trigger warnings but the students fought back and won.
The Daily Caller reports:
Pro-Lifers Shut Down ‘Trigger Warning’ Mandate At An Ohio University
Pro-life displays at Ohio’s Miami University won’t have to sport “trigger warning” signs after an anti-abortion student group won a free speech battle...
Wouldn’t this same position apply in all areas of study? Kudos to the professor for standing up.
Campus Reform reports:
Prof: Trigger warnings ‘serious threats’ to teaching English
An English professor at Columbia University Teachers College recently argued that trigger warnings can pose “serious threats” to English education.
Adam Wolfsdorf, who teaches graduate classes on...
The left’s ideas are once again so popular that they have to be required.
Campus Reform reports:
Pro-life group sues school for mandating ‘trigger warnings’
A pro-life group filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Miami University of Ohio, claiming the school unconstitutionally required them to post trigger warnings before erecting a display on campus.
Students for...
This is so pathetic. If you need trigger warnings for Shakespeare, you belong in a rubber room, not a college classroom.
The Independent UK reports:
Cambridge University students given trigger warnings for Shakespeare plays
Academics have criticised “trigger warnings” after Cambridge University students were warned about “potentially distressing topics” in plays by Shakespeare.
English literature...
Wouldn’t you think theology students have already heard about Christ dying on the cross?
The Daily Mail reports:
Bible students are warned…you may find the crucifixion too upsetting!
Theology students are being warned in advance that...
If your mental health is so fragile that you can’t view or discuss course content without a warning first, you don’t belong in college. It’s really that simple.
The health center at the University of Wisconsin Madison feels differently.
Heat Street reported:
UW-Madison Health Center Urges ‘Trigger Warnings’ to Protect Student Mental Health
The University of...
This is the danger concepts like trigger warnings and speech codes present to free speech. People start censoring themselves over fear of the mob.
One professor shared her story at the
The faculty at American University passed a resolution against Trigger Warnings in 2015. However, some members of the student government not only want Trigger Warnings, they want them to be mandatory.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Pushing Trigger Warnings
The University of Chicago has received considerable attention for Dean John Ellison’s letter to incoming students...
We’ve now reached the point where a professor can’t teach her course properly because too many of the course materials might trigger someone. This is madness.
Campus Reform reports:
Ithaca enters trigger warning debate
An Ithaca College professor says she has stopped teaching sensitive material in her Sociology of Sexualities course because it has...
