Cornell leaders reject student resolution demanding course trigger warnings

Cornell rejects student proposal to add trigger warnings to syllabi

Cornell University has rejected a proposed resolution to add trigger warnings in students’ syllabi for potentially offensive content in class. The resolution, called Mandating Content Warnings for Traumatic Content in the Classroom, required professors to warn students about content that may trigger the onset of PTSD symptoms. This includes: Sexual assault. Domestic violence. Self-harm. Suicide. Child abuse. Racial violence. Transphobic violen…

Cornell Rejects Push for Trigger Warnings in Classrooms

Cornell University rejected a push by its student government to require professors to issue trigger warnings before potentially offensive class content and allow students to "opt out" without consequence.  The student assembly passed the measure, titled "Mandating Content Warnings for Traumatic Content in the Classroom" on March 23. Cornell president Martha Pollack and provost Michael Kotlikoff said Monday they "cannot accept this resolution," s…

Cornell Rejects Student Group’s Call for ‘Trigger Warnings’

Dantes De MonteCristo Cornell University in Ithaca, New York Pollack and Kotlikoff’s response to the resolution said faculty members have the right to determine what and how they teach in their classrooms, provided they teach competently and follow professional ethics.

Cornell Rejects Student Demands for 'Trigger Warnings' Before Class Discussions

“The Student General Assembly Resolution is a gross attempt at speech and academic content policing which infantilizes students, relies on faulty claims that academic content worsens PTSD, and violates the academic freedom of faculty”

Cornell University stands up to ‘triggered’ snowflakes

Big-time colleges so rarely have attacks of momentary sanity these days that it’s highly newsworthy when one really does exercise good judgment.

Cornell rejects student group's push to add 'trigger warnings' before class discussions: 'Academic freedom'

Cornell University rejected a Student Assembly resolution to preface sensitive class discussions with "trigger warnings."  The group urged university officials to require faculty to warn students ahead of discussing certain "graphic traumatic" content that could trigger onset of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms in some. "We cannot accept this resolution, as the actions it recommends would infringe on our core commitment to academic…