If college administrators aren’t going to train students and faculty in “cultural competence,” they should do it competently, writes Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic. He cites an educational sheet that migrated from the University of California system to UC Santa Cruz, the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, the court system of Philadelphia, and beyond. It lists “racial microaggressions” that “communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target

Rutgers freshmen will have to take a course on microaggressions as part of orientation reports Lindsay Marchello in Reason. The Language Matters Campaign, organized by the university’s Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, will teach students to avoid saying something that might offend a “marginalized” classmate. The course consists of a Prezi presentation and some Youtube videos. It concludes by encouraging students to report an act of bias toward anyone

A new survey shows 74 percent of employers plan to hire recent college graduates this year, up from 67 percent last year. Thirty-nine percent will pay a starting salary of $50,000 or more. However, 23 percent will pay new graduates less than $30,000. Majors in the most demand: Business – 30 percent Engineering – 26 percent Computer and information sciences – 23 percent Engineering technologies – 16 percent Communications technologies – 13 percent Math and statistics – 11 perc

(Snowflakes) don’t demand safe spaces from kids’ scalding hot tongues. We don’t ask for trigger warnings every time a dog starts sniffing around. Enough is enough.” The term Generation Snowflake “is an insult to snowflakes everywhere,” the flake concluded. It sounds like cultural appropriation to me! #collegestudents #fragility #GenerationSnowflake #microaggressions