I have had this happen twice with male students from Pakistan & Saudi
Arabia.   I asked colleagues who were from the same country, with the same
religion, what they thought the response should be.  Overwhelmingly, they
said that any student coming to the USA knew that they would be working
with females, and they should adjust or not be here.  It seems to be more a
problem with the individual males themselves rather than their culture,
since the other males and females from those cultures have no problems.  In
fact, these males had many problems other than working with females,
including jail time for one and flunking out for the other.
Mary


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Jim Sibley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> There needs to be an institution response to this
>
> We had something similar when turn it in came to town....and a few
> students refused to play along
>
> Our institutional response was that is your right...BUT we use turn it
> in....if you want a degree from our institution....you need to as
> well....or go find another school
>
> Jim
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 9, 2014, at 5:37 AM, Lion Gardiner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> Lion F. Gardiner, Ph.D.
> Professor Emeritus, Zoology
> Rutgers [log in to unmask]
> Higher Education Consultation
>
>


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