This is your next journal assignment: Due October 30th
A recent event on a college campus has prompted a journal on higher education (Inside Higher Ed) to write a full-length article about some current problematics concerning mental health and the college classroom. This article has sparked a heated online debate between administrators, teachers and students a like. For a university to get profiled in a journal like this is a big deal.
Read more about "Student, Interrupted"
Imagine this happened at your university and a group of concerned students and faculty wanted to question the university’s handling of this situation while putting pressure on the institution to think more carefully and thoughtfully about how they handle cases of PTSD (especially in light of the many veterans that are coming home from the war).
Do citizens at this institution have a potential grievance to petition (i.e. concern over discriminatory policy, an unjust hearing of Manges, ect)?
Using Fraser's terminology, what needs should be redistributed and what needs must be recognized?
What would you advocate a group of concerned citizens to do?
But more pointedly, What Would Emma Goldman Do (WWED)?
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Since we’re in such a rural area and some of our services are limited, we realize this may not be the best environment to really serve all students and we also recognize that sometimes a student may not be good in this environment for other students,” says Heather Webb, director of judicial affairs at the university.
I would first like to thank Angela for putting this article on the blog, and would like to enact a certain hypothetical policy effective immediately in Fraser's terminology
Retribution: Eastern should put in writing their "policy" towards people who have physiological disorders listed specifically by members of the counseling center: anorexia, bulimia, and post traumatic stress disorder as a simple single offense expulsion. It has been called a knee-jerk reaction and I believe Jill should settle like other students have as cited in the article.
Redistribution: Our counseling center should redefine "reasonable" accommodations and adopt policies or staff who can effectively deal with PTSD or disorders of the physiological nature. We are a campus of 12000 students with at least 100 who do not have the facilities to support them.
I will be getting together a few strategies to implement this policy in the next couple of weeks. If anyone has ideas, please contact me.
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