Bias Response Teams Thwarted in Their Goal of a Sensitive Campus by the First Amendment - Reason.com:
"The Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice released a first-of-its kind study on bias response teams, a relatively new invention in the ever-expanding world of college free speech management.
Interviews with administrators who police and discipline students who have used insensitive language or display insensitive attitudes reveal their frustration with the free speech guarantees that prevent them from punishing students.
The First Amendment, some of them say, constrains them from creating sensitive, inclusive communities.
The study is strangely hand-waving and feel-good, concluding, with little evidence, that bias response teams "created a safer, more welcoming campus community."
And it fails to fully address the cost at which all this inclusivity comes..."
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