“Protection of Transgender, Non-binary, Disabled, Working Class, and Women Students from Hatred in University Contexts”...
"some of the material includes child abuse, incest and other violent material"...
"laid out the no-nos and the replacement terms for Service Center employees at a mandatory training"...
“This is the first piece of empirical work directly examining if [trigger warnings] have their intended effects”...
"what college is all about"...
"findings were published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry"...
“Topics Discussed May Be Uncomfortable or Controversial”...
"frames criticism of trigger warnings as a form of misogyny"...
"decision comes after the university’s SFL group filed a suit"...
“foster a culture where student fragility is promoted over the development of resilience”...
"feared the display would cause “emotional trauma”...
"to help students who may be upset if a text reminds them of a personal traumatic experience"...
"you may find the crucifixion too upsetting"...
For the mental health of students...
“When did you start being afraid to speak up?”...
Pushing Trigger Warnings The University of Chicago has received considerable attention for Dean John Ellison’s letter to incoming students about free speech. He warned freshmen not to expect safe spaces or trigger warnings, setting off a national debate about their value and prevalence. A different kind of debate is going on at American University, where students are demanding mandatory trigger warnings -- despite the Faculty Senate’s 2015 resolution against them.
"It has become too difficult to accommodate all of her students’ needs."...
Protests at college campuses across the country have highlighted the alarming degree to which the modern university protester is disconnected from planet Earth. Dr. Piper, it would seem, has had enough. He wrote:
