Should college come with trigger warnings? At Cornell, it’s a ‘hard no.’
Should college come with trigger warnings? At Cornell, it’s a ‘hard no.’
- April 12, 2023
- Connor Strobel, sociology Ph.D., The New York Times, April 12, 2023
Some professors support the use of trigger warnings. “When used correctly,” said Connor Strobel, a professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago, “trigger warnings can open up a conversation” with students, enabling professors to alert them to available resources. … When Professor Strobel was a graduate student at University of California, Irvine in 2016, he wrote a proposal asking a faculty government association to endorse the use of trigger warnings on campus.
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/nyregion/cornell-student-assembly-trigger-warnings.html.
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