Despite Fears About Trigger Warnings, Survey Suggests Few Faculty Are Forced To Use Them

[LiberalArkie]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/23/faculty-trigger-warnings-survey_n_7639376.html

Very few college professors are forced to use trigger warnings in class, according to an online survey of College Art Association and Modern Language Association members.

Out of 808 who responded, less than 1 percent said their college or university had adopted a trigger warning policy. Eighty-five percent said in the survey that students had never asked them to use trigger warnings, and 93 percent did not know of any student-initiated efforts at their school to require them in class.

Without a formal policy, 12 percent said they used trigger warnings regularly, while another 11 percent said they tried them out "several times" and 34 percent utilized warnings "once or twice." Another 42 percent said they've never used a trigger warning.

The non-scientific questionnaire was developed with help from the National Coalition Against Censorship, and distributed using SurveyMonkey. The results were first presented at the annual conference of the American Association of University Professors last week, and were subsequently provided to The Huffington Post.

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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Good. Trigger warnings belong in therapy, not the college classroom.

[Kalidurga]

2. That is what I said to my classmates.

I wasn't entirely sure it would be received well. I know several women who were molested as children or raped as an adult, but not one of them thought trigger warnings are appropriate. You know why, because they aren't. It's college if you can't take an adult discussion then maybe college isn't for you at the moment.