Saturday, March 24, 2018

Harvard to let students report instructors for making them ‘uncomfortable,’ saying ‘offensive’ things

The College Fix reports:
Harvard is already penalizing students who belong to gender-affinity groups and a Christian student club that adheres to biblical sexuality.

Next on its list of enemies: instructors who make students “uncomfortable” or say “offensive” things in class.

The Harvard Crimson reports administrators are updating the Q guide, through which students evaluate their courses, to go beyond self-reported metrics such as class difficulty, work required and “lecturing acumen.”

They promised at a town hall meeting for undergraduates Thursday night to add the “uncomfortable” question and something similar to an “offensive” question that’s already available through Harvard’s School of Public Health.
The endless enemies at Harvard...