Core beliefs/content accommodation policies and teaching practice. Issue 1 (3rd July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Steimel, Sarah
• Is Part Of: First amendment studies. Volume 52:Issue 1/2(2018)
• Page Start: 126
• Page End: 136
• Publication Date: 2018-07-03
• Subjects: Higher education -- First Amendment -- content accommodations -- trigger warnings; Freedom of speech -- United States -- Periodicals; Freedom of speech -- Periodicals; 323.44
• DOI: 10.1080/21689725.2018.1507833
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2168-1430

Abstract

ABSTRACT: After nearly five years of litigation and public debate, the University of Utah now follows a Content Accommodations policy that outlines how students may ask for university curriculum to be altered based on their sincerely held beliefs. This essay is written about experiences teaching at another public university in Utah (Weber State), which has a similar Core Beliefs policy written in the aftermath of the University of Utah lawsuit. Teaching under a core beliefs policy has resulted in at least three notable influences on my own teaching practices: tensions between planning and spontaneity, vagaries surrounding reasonable accommodation, and pre-curation (or self-censorship) strategies.