The College Fix

Here’s what some college students in Texas were told recently about navigating college, according to an article in The Collegian:

Hudson told students to be considerate of other students’ gender, race, ethnicity, religion, age, ability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, linguistic heritage and cultural expression to avoid unknowingly offending them.

“Students should have the goal to promote and sustain a culture of inclusion where individuality and cultural humility is embraced and valued,” she said. …

“Whether intentional or unintentional, anything that communicates hostile, derogatory or negative slights and insults towards a social group can be interpreted as backhanded communications,” he said.

Henderson and Hudson encouraged students attending the presentation to share any personal experiences involving microaggressions both on and off campus. They gave feedback to students and suggested responses to situations that could occur in the future to better educate the other person.

“If you Google ‘things not to say,’ you’ll come up with a bunch of things you never knew that you shouldn’t say before,” Lu said. “Before I took the required course on this, I had no idea that some of these things could offend people.”

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