Commentary: Reporting and Conflict Avoidance

July 24, 2023 1 min read

Matt Reed
Inside Higher Ed

Excerpt: I read with interest the report on a new study from North Dakota State University on students’ hypothetical willingness to report professors who say “offensive” things.  

As a longtime administrator, I can count the number of student complaints about professorial speech on one hand and have fingers left over. It hasn’t happened with anything close to the frequency that the article indicates.

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