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I suggest reading more at the link. I fully applaud them and I hope other universities/colleges also get rid of this "safe space, trigger warning" BS garbage!!!
You should definitely go there then. I mean you are definitely a soon to be college student, right? So you should definitely have a say about how colleges are run, since it directly effects you and what not.
probably trying to pre-empt the kind of thing that happened at Mizzou.... where the administration was caught with their pants down essentially, letting students drive the train.
Agree, and I would add it appears that all had a very adverse effect on Mizzou. I believe the size of this year's Freshman class is way down, something like 30-40%, which, of course, has a major impact on the bottom line in the form of lost tuition and fee revenue.
I don't know when the term 'microaggression' became trendy to use, but I think a lot of people use it incorrectly.
I have a colleague who is also a chemistry professor who tricked his students by putting a very easy question on his test when they were expecting a similarly worded hard question based on old tests. Most of the class answered the hard question, probably because they didn't read it carefully enough. When he gave the test back, he said something about learning the concepts rather than mindlessly memorizing. I had to read his student evaluations as part of his mid tenure review, and one of the students claimed that his comments were a 'microaggression against those with a memorization-based learning style'.
I don't know when the term 'microaggression' became trendy to use, but I think a lot of people use it incorrectly.
I have a colleague who is also a chemistry professor who tricked his students by putting a very easy question on his test when they were expecting a similarly worded hard question based on old tests. Most of the class answered the hard question, probably because they didn't read it carefully enough. When he gave the test back, he said something about learning the concepts rather than mindlessly memorizing. I had to read his student evaluations as part of his mid tenure review, and one of the students claimed that his comments were a 'microaggression against those with a memorization-based learning style'.
That poor student probably had to run to a safe space on campus immediately after taking the test.
I don't know when the term 'microaggression' became trendy to use, but I think a lot of people use it incorrectly.
I have a colleague who is also a chemistry professor who tricked his students by putting a very easy question on his test when they were expecting a similarly worded hard question based on old tests. Most of the class answered the hard question, probably because they didn't read it carefully enough. When he gave the test back, he said something about learning the concepts rather than mindlessly memorizing. I had to read his student evaluations as part of his mid tenure review, and one of the students claimed that his comments were a 'microaggression against those with a memorization-based learning style'.
This kind of thing is why student evals are a horrible tool for instructor evaluation. I'm someone who usually gets above average eval responses, but I hate them because everyone instructor will get comments like this.
My favorite eval response was "He grades too hard on easy tests which made my grade lower than it should have been."
The term "micro-aggression" comes from the 1970s & was coined by a Harvard psychiatrist & expanded by an MIT economist. It was originally used to describe derogatory language used toward African Americans. I prefer to call it "casual degradation" which I think is more accurate description than "micro-aggression." A good example from my life would be the way I used to say "that's gay" when I was in high school to describe anything I thought was weak or absurd.
Or do you think that it's acceptable for white people to call black men "boy?" That's the best example of a pernicious micro-aggression.
No. Actually, I would not classify calling a black man "boy", as "micro-aggression.
That is a racist comment. Always has been. So, no, that is not what I am referencing.
The incident with the chalk writing on the steps of a building at Brandies University, in Waltham MA, typifies what is called micro-aggression.
I'll look for a link - or you may Google it.
This involved some Asian students writing responses to stereotypes of Asians as a protest.
In response to alleged micro aggression.
One read something like "NO -I am not good at math."
One example of the "micro-aggression". But wait...it gets worse.
Other students thought that the very posting of these responses constituted a micro-aggression, and they felt "re-traumatized" by the protesters protests against micro-aggressions.
SO....The university had to remove the offending posts- which were posted by other offended people, and send every student an apologetic e-mail. For whatever micro-aggresion precipitated the protest AND to the people who were "triggered" by the protest.
That's nice, but I had to laugh at the talking heads on TV stating UC's policy that if professors want to go ahead and give trigger warnings, they're free to do so. In other words, lending credibility to this gar-baghe by referring to it matter-of-factly as if they were talking about a course load.
Gimmeabreak.
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