The college’s decision was obviously uninformed and insensitive, but perhaps we ought to be thinking about how these prejudices might manifest in cases where there is not an epidemic.
If a university is to serve as a platform for the dissemination of ideas, it must assure people do not feel unsafe expressing them.
Steinauer’s course can educate medical professionals about why they are obligated to provide abortion care to their patients — because of the potential health risks of continuing certain pregnancies, and the potentially severe medical complications of unsafe abortions, among other reasons.
And this lack of distinction negatively affects the high achievers just as much, because they would struggle to prove their excellence to employers or graduate schools in comparison to their peers.
It may be controversial, but displaying a Confederate flag is an act of expression which a college or university does not have the power to limit, just as it would not have the power to limit the expression of controversial political views which could potentially offend certain students.
Sanctions against schools who compromise the health of their athletes would provide stronger incentives to abide by the “best practices” that already exist.
Not paying rent cannot necessarily be categorized as theft without consideration of all the circumstances of the relationship between the landlord and the tenant.
If having permanent housing will improve health, the homeless who are given apartments would be more likely to get back to work, and will eventually not need their rents subsidized.
Though the logistics of the student plan and the faculty/staff plan are different, principles of equality should apply to all members of the University community — and that includes professors and workers.
For a school to create policies which impose or prohibit certain habits like smoking is to assert too much authority to decide what personal practices students should and should not be doing.
Delaware State University associate professor Cyril Broderick has recently come under fire for an
We are not going to see incidents of gender-based violence disappear overnight. We must remember that tangible change will take time.
Involving students in advertising efforts may be the best way for an institution to distinguish itself, because the one asset a university has which no other has is its students — all of them with unique stories to tell and diverse perspectives to bring.
Though course evaluations are not a good measure of whether a professor deserves a tenured position, they still give students a sense of efficacy and give professors an opportunity to make valuable improvements to their courses.
Though it does make sense to prioritize the students who most want to attend, this measure is impossible to objectively quantify.
Rave venue owners should not be discouraged from distributing educational materials and preparing for emergency medical situations in order to make their events safer.
Admitting women to social fraternities is not a guaranteed remedy to the problems plaguing fraternity life — namely: sexual assault, alcohol abuse and hazing.
In developing such climate surveys, universities must maintain a balance between their obligation to assess their students’ safety and their obligations to protect student privacy.
The managing board highlights notable figures from the start of the fall semester
But we must also remember that there is a human element to this issue which is even more important than the financial element.
