http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-professors-fear-but-dont-face-trigger-warnings/
FiveThirtyEight wrote:
In order to roughly gauge how common trigger warning policies were, and to find out how professors felt about the possibility of being asked to include them, the National Coalition Against Censorship partnered with the Modern Language Association and the College Art Association (professional associations for scholars of literature and art) to poll their members during the spring of 2015.
Almost none of the more than 800 members who replied to the survey said their school required trigger warnings. Only 0.5 percent of respondents said that their institution had adopted such a policy.
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The vast majority of professors surveyed (85 percent) said students had never asked them for trigger warnings. Thirteen percent of professors had gotten a request once or twice, and only a tiny proportion of professors polled said they received trigger warning requests several times (1.4 percent) or regularly (0.3 percent).
A lot of people (and, mea culpa, I'm one of them) have recently engaged in handwringing over the decline of freedom of speech on many college campuses, in a discussion amplified by high-profile cases at Yale, Princeton, the University of Missouri, and other colleges across the country.
Perhaps the recent incidents are indicative of a broader trend but it appears that, as of this spring, trigger warnings were far less widespread than news accounts would suggest. What do you CC people think?
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