Good Morning, Colleagues,
As you may have noted in this morning's /Inside Higher Ed,/ the /Globe
and Mail/ reports that a male student protested having to meet with a
learning group containing females in a course he was taking.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/religious-accommodation-or-accessory-to-sexism-york-students-case-stirs-debate/article16246401/
Suppose you had such a student, male or female, who was a /regular,
full-time on-campus/ student, in your TBL course, but refused to meet
with peers of the other gender. How would you handle this? How would
your institution react to this potentially legally fraught situation?
What are the implications for a TBL course as a whole of granting this
kind of request? Would the situation be any different for objections to
meeting with gays? transsexual students? members of other ethnicities?
Lion Gardiner
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Lion F. Gardiner, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Zoology
Rutgers University
212.226.2749
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