Universities are places to train students to become “thinkers” to come out with new ideas through educating them, but students should be educated in a safe environment. The reason for studying is to innovate new ideas, and universities are places to educate “future designers”. One …show more content…
There is time when classes’ materials include sensational topics that affect students’ mental health, and some students’ traumatic memories might be hooked up when those sensitive topics go over in classes. It should be a safe action for colleges to adopt a “trigger warmer” policy to warm students in classes’ syllabus what course materials might be covered. In fact, trigger warming has already gained supporters, and these schools use the policy to ensure their students are educated in a safe environment. “University of California - Santa Barbara has passed a resolution that professors should indicate in syllabi when emotionally or physically stressful material would be presented in class” (Brianne Richson, “College should Adopt Trigger Warnings”, Page 98 , Line 3-5). University of California - Santa Barbara, UCSB, as one of the best universities in the nation provides a high quality of education, and it adopts the “trigger warming” policy to protect students to learn in a safe environment. In fact, this policy has a huge benefit for students. One of my friends who is a victim of assault assault, and she attends UCSB. When she took a social politic class, her professor passed out a syllabus that outlines every topic which would be covered in the course. There was a lecture that covered a topic about sexual crime victim, and she decided not to attend that lecture because it would hook up her traumatic