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University of Arizona Teaches Students What To Say When Offended: ‘Ouch!’

Frank Camp

Jesús Treviño, PhD, Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence at the University of Arizona (yes, it’s a real job for which he’s paid $214,000 a year), released a 20-page guide designed to help students and faculty navigate the complex waters of microaggressions, microinsults, and microinvalidations. The piece is titled: “Diversity and Inclusiveness in the Classroom.”

The 20-page document is brimming with never-before-thought-of suggestions, including this mindbender: Don’t use “inappropriate humor in class that degrades students from different groups, including mocking different accents.”

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