November 2018 Division Meeting

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PD Team
November Opportunities
• 11/6 @3:30 p.m. – L.E.T.S. Series: Let’s Talk – Managing in the Middle
• 11/7 @3:30 p.m. Fall Appreciation Social
• 11/15 @8:30 a.m. – What’s Dennis Reading? Breakfast
*For additional information and RSVP links, please visit the PD Team Calendar

The Center for Health and Well-Being accepts the
state health plan for flu shots, so come get yours at
no cost to you.

Healthy Carolina Farmers Market
Upcoming Dates:
(Tuesdays from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Greene Street
in front of the Russell House)
November 13 - “Let’s Talk about Sex”

C.A.L.M. Oasis Space
Open Practice – patrons can practice in the space silently or use ear buds to listen to guided meditations.
Open Learning – structured mindfulness and meditation offerings coordinated by trained facilitators.
Faculty/Staff Mindfulness Class: October 17, October 31, November 14 and November 28 - 12-1 p.m.
Intro to Mindfulness (Students): October 26, November 2,
November 9 and November 16 – 1:30-3 p.m.
Recovery Meditation: Every Wednesday – 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Midday Meditation: Monday/Wednesday/Friday – 11:20-11:40 a.m. and
Tuesday/Thursday – 12:30-12:50 p.m.
Graduate Student Meditation: Thursdays - 4-4:40 p.m.
Inner Path to Peace for Faculty/Staff: October 29, November 5 and November 12 – 12-1 p.m.
Yoga: Thursday - 5-5:40 p.m. and Friday - 12-12:40 p.m.

Love Your Plate
Healthy Carolina Initiatives (HCI) Fall
2018 Campaign
• Encourages students to eat a well-
balanced diet with a variety of
foods while addressing issues
such as body image and self-
esteem.
Main Events:
• Culinary Boot Camp - November 6
#loveyourplateuofsc

Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper
Training
The Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training is a two-hour
training that teaches attendees how to recognize the various
warning signs of suicide and how to respond appropriately.
Upcoming Dates:
• November 13, 1 - 3 p.m.
• November 19, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Division Meeting
Viewpoint Diversity
November 2, 2018

Upcoming Professional Development
Opportunities
• 11/6 @3:30 p.m. – L.E.T.S. Series: Let’s Talk – Managing in the Middle
• 11/7 @3:30 p.m. Fall Appreciation Event
• 11/15 @8:30 a.m. – What’s Dennis Reading? Breakfast

Let’s Serve – Fill a Stocking
Carolina Cares Drive 50th Anniversary 2018
Stop by the table in the back of the ballroom to pick up a
stocking today! Fill with goodies for a local boy or girl!

December Professional Development
Opportunities
• 12/7 @ 8:00 a.m. – Division Winter Celebration
• 12/13 @ 8:30 a.m. – What’s Dennis Reading? Breakfast
• 12/14 @ 3:30 p.m. – Dessert Bake Off

New Professionals Symposium
• January 8, 2019
• Anyone 0-2 years into their Student Affairs career is welcome
to attend
• Presenters and Attendees Wanted!

Spring Division Meeting Dates
• February 1
• March 1
• April 5
• May 3

Nominate a GEM Today
Gamecocks who Excel at Magnificent Service
Nominate a colleague in your department or across the Division

November GEMS Winners
• Cheryl Upchurch, Student Success Center
• Jennifer Taylor, SAVIP
• Angela Harrington, Counseling & Psychiatry
• Kelsey Sopko, Campus Recreation
• Penny Mace, Student Success Center
• Alyssa Rollins, FSL
• La’Kesha Hobson, Primary Care
• Eric Gill, Facilities
• Sarah Morgan Kelly, Preston

Nominators have a chance to win, too!
When you nominate a colleague you will be entered in the monthly drawings and
you have an opportunity to win a $25 gift card.

November Nominator Winner
• Andrea Williams, Student Success Center

“Student affairs is about
comforting the disturbed and
disturbing the comfortable”
Uncredited but Often Cited Maxim of Practice
Division Meeting
Friday, November 2, 2018
8:30-10:00 am
Russell House Ballroom

Division Meeting
Friday, November 2, 2018
Viewpoint Diversity
Marc H. Shook, Ph.D., J.D.
Dean of Students
Deputy Title IX Coordinator

The goals seems easy enough right?

University of Texas
October 2016

Vote on live.voxvote.com PIN: 60829
Where do you stand?
(A) The Young Conservatives of Texas selling baked
goods at prices dependent upon race to create a
conversation about affirmative action is protected
speech/expression.
(B) The Young Conservatives of Texas selling baked
goods at prices dependent upon race to create a
conversation about affirmative action is not protected
by the First Amendment.

University Reaction
“YCT joins a handful of student groups at other universities who over the years have used the
same reductive tactic to garner the spotlight for their views on affirmative action. Such
methods are inflammatory and demeaning. Yet focusing our attention on the provocative
nature of the YCT’s actions ignores a much more important issue: they create an environment
of exclusion and disrespect among our students, faculty and staff.
The West Mall is a place where free speech is exercised by all students, and rightly so,
because it is meant to be an arena that inspires dialogue from diverse viewpoints. However, it
is also meant to be a space where students exhibit respect for each other while holding those
viewpoints. Although it is their right to do so, it is deplorable that a few students took
advantage of this open forum to direct negative sentiment toward their peers.”
-Dr. Gregory J. Vincent, former UT Austin Vice President for Diversity and Community
Engagement

Cleveland State University
October 2017
Heading of poster read:
“Follow your fellow FA**OTS”
No ** including on the actual
poster

Where do you stand?
(A) The posted Anti-LGBT flyers constitute protected
speech/expression and should not be taken down.
(B) The Anti-LGBT flyers violate the First Amendment and
should be removed from campus.

What Complicates the Goals of
Viewpoint Diversity For
Student Affairs Professionals?

What Complicates the Goals of Viewpoint
Diversity for Student Affairs Professionals?
1. “Weaponization” of Political Party Affiliation
2. Our Student Affairs Heritage and Philosophy

“Weaponization” of Political Party Affiliation
• Are the goals of viewpoint diversity and diversity of
opinion the same?
• Whose chair is missing?
• The importance of representation

“Weaponization” of
Political Party Affiliation
Gardenswartz & Rowe (1994, p. 33)
Layers of Diversity
• Personality
• Protected classes
• Internal Dimensions
• Organizational Dimensions
• Political Affiliation?

• Liberalization of higher education faculty and administration (Baurer Wold,
2018; Chemerinsky & Gillman, 2017; Lukianoff & Haidt, 2005; Lukianoff & Haidt,
2018; Routledge, 2016)
• Student affairs administrators more liberal than faculty? (Abrams, 2018; Baurer
Wolf, 2018)
• Is this is a “good” thing or a “bad” thing?
– Higher education already conservative based on consumer nature of
industry and neglect for individuals so liberal workforce is needed
(Freiman, 2018)
– Liberals pushing an agenda to vulnerable student starting with orientation
and extending to campus programming without any read counter position
(Abrams, 2018)

• Perception that viewpoint diversity, particularly when
it comes to representation by political difference, is
not needed for most decisions (Heterdox Academy, the
problem, n.d.; Von Bergen & Bressler, 2017)
• What about the “wicked problems”? (Phillips, 2018; ¶3;
Heterdox Academy, n.d., the problem, ¶2; see also Von
Bergen & Bressler, 2017)

What Complicates the Goals of Viewpoint
Diversity for Student Affairs Professionals?
2. Our Student Affairs Heritage and Philosophy

Our Student Affairs Heritage and Philosophy
Finding a balance between . . .
• Social Justice
• Safe Spaces/Trigger Warnings
• Student Development
• Policy Development/Enforcement

When did we make the shift from administrators promulgating rules they
believed were in the students best interests to a time when students started
asking for “protection” from harmful speech?
– 2013: students born in 1995 (Lukianoff & Haidt, 2015; Lukianoff & Haidt, 2018)
– 2016 Gallup poll: 22% of college students believe they should be protected
from biased speech, “hate” speech, and offensive views (Gallup, 2016)
Is this significant?
Could a change in our student affairs graduate preparatory programs’ focus also
be considered? (McCreary, 2016)
Social justice and student development – Did we lose a balance? Have we found
it?

Our student affairs lens is further complicated by external and internal
pressures
• Snowflakes: US AG Jeff Sessions, colleges are creating a “Generation
of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes” (Quintana, 2018)
• SC HB 4440 “Forming open and robust university minds (forum) act”
• U. of Chicago Statement (U. of Chicago, 2015; see also Lindsay, 2018) –
even it has been criticized: When “free speech is a marketing ploy”
(Nwanevu, 2018)
• How to balance “development” v. “protection”

Generational bias versus the reality of our current population
Shift from political correctness (80s-90s) with an emphasis on including
underrepresented groups to “vindictive protectiveness” (Lukianoff & Haidt,
2015, ¶4)
Studies demonstrating significant increases in mental health issues
(depression, anxiety) cumulating in self-injurious behavior
• Oct. 30 APA Stress in America Survey headline, “Gen Z more likely than
other generations to report fair or poor mental health” (APA, 2018)
Again, balancing “development” with “protection”

Reconciling the turn toward aggressiveness and shift
in the type of speech/expression considered
objectionable
In your face activism (ACE, 2018; Clashes over free
speech, 2018; EAB, 2017)
• “Hate” rhetoric
Is there “progressive hostility” in higher education
(Blackwell, 2018) or has there been a subtle change?

“What’s interesting about this particular moment is that historically, it has
been liberal ideas that have most often been the target of suppression,
whether it was the Communists, or the Civil Rights movement, or the anti-
War movement, or the Women’s Rights movement, or the Gay Rights
movement, etc. This is a bit of an unusual period because it’s primarily
conservative views that are being objected to. But the same principle
applies and for the same reason that we would allow people to come talk
about Communism, or a right to abortion, or gay rights long before those
views were generally deemed acceptable.”
Geoffrey Stone, former Dean of the Law School and Provost at the University of
Chicago; committee chair for the Chicago Statement on Free Speech
(McCammon, 2018, ¶9)

We know, however, that hate is not isolated to one side of
the political spectrum
So what role
do we play?

Viewpoint Diversity, Student Affairs
Policy Development/Enforcement, and
the First Amendment in the Day of
Vindictive Protectiveness

What Campuses Can and Can’t Do
Chemerinsky and Gillman’s (2017) Free Speech on
Campus
“Those of us who believe in free speech values will not
win over this generation of students by mocking them,
calling them weak or coddled, or dismissing their
legitimate concerns” (p. 111)

What Campuses Can and Can’t Do
Private/Public Distinction
Can’t: A campus can’t censor or punish speech merely
because a person or group considers it offensive or
hateful
Can: A campus can censor or punish speech that
meets the legal criteria for harassment, true threats, or
other speech acts unprotected by the First Amendment
(p. 113)

First Amendment Prohibitions: True Threats
Threat vs. “True Threat” – reasonable person standard;
not sensitive person
“Preventing ‘true threats’ focuses on protecting a
person from fear of physical harm, but not from
emotional injury” (p. 117)

First Amendment Prohibitions: Harassment
No protection to harass based on race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation (or any other
protected class issued by the institution) – even criminal behavior for non protected
classes
Title IX (gender); Title VII (race, color, religion, or national origin)
Must be
• Unwelcome
• Discriminatory
• On the basis of a protected class
• Directed at an individual
• So severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive, and that so undermines and detracts
from the victims’ educational experience, that the victim-students are effectively
denied equal access to an institution’s resources and opportunities (p. 120, citing
FIRE).

First Amendment Prohibitions: Destruction of Property
& Disruption of Classes and Campus Activities
You say what you need to say, but let me go about my business (faculty teaching,
administrator typing an e-mail, student walking across street to get to class, etc.)
Restrictions must be content/view point neutral and apply to all speech (not a single
group)
Time, place, manner restrictions
Why do I see student sit ins all the time?
The perplexing case of Garcetti v. Ceballos (US 2006) – speech as a citizen and speech
as a public employee (Hudson & Melemaikalani, 2017)

Viewpoint Diversity, Student Affairs
Policy Development/Enforcement,
and the First Amendment in the day
of vindictive protectiveness
So What Can We Do?

What Can We, as Student Affairs
Administrators at UofSC, Do?
1. Espouse proper policies and maintain commitment
to values
“Campuses should … take steps – through formal
training and other initiatives – to sensitize the
community about the insidious effects of bias. A
problem arises only when there are efforts to force
campuses to police and punish such expression”
(Chemerinsky & Gillman, 2017, p. 141)

What Can We, as Student Affairs
Administrators at UofSC, Do?
2. Continue to honor our mandate to student development and
charge to balance “Challenge and Support”
3. Consider balance in the presentation of ideas – ask whose
chair is missing
4. Care, love, and support our students/colleagues
5. Be mindful of judging tendencies

The “Chicago Statement”
“Because the University is committed to free and open inquiry in all matters,
it guarantees all members of the University community the broadest possible
latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn…it is not the proper role
of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions
they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive….
It is for the individual members of the University community, not for the
University as an institution, to make those judgments for themselves, and to
act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly
and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose. Indeed, fostering the
ability of members of the University community to engage in such debate
and deliberation in an effective and responsible manner is an essential part
of the University’s educational mission.”

Fordham University
December 2016
• Fordham students applied to start a
Students for Justice in Palestine group
• Student government approved the
group
• Dean of Students overrules student
government’s decision and denies the
club status
• A group of students sue Fordham
University (Article 78)
• Court hears oral arguments on
students’ preliminary injunction and
Fordham’s motion to dismiss
• Court did not reach a decision and
case is still ongoing

University Reaction
“After consultation with numerous faculty, staff and
students and my own deliberation, I have decided to
deny the request to form a club known as Students for
Justice in Palestine at Fordham University. While
students are encouraged to promote diverse political
points of view, and we encourage conversation and
debate on all topics, I cannot support an organization
whose sole purpose is advocating political goals of a
specific group, and against a specific country, when
these goals clearly conflict with and run contrary to the
mission and values of the University. There is perhaps
no more complex topic than the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, and it is a topic that often leads to polarization
rather than dialogue.”
Keith Eldredge, Dean of Students

Where do you stand?
(A) The Dean of Students' denial of the club’s
recognition does not violate students’ First Amendment
rights (Article 78)
(B) The Dean of Student's denial of the club’s
recognition is a violation of the students’ First
Amendment rights (Article 78)

Viewpoint Diversity References and Suggested Readings
• Abrams, S. (2018, Oct. 16). Think professors are liberal? Try school administrators. The New York Times. Retrieved from
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/opinion/liberal-college-administrators.html
• Academic Freedom and Educational Responsibility. (2006, January 6). Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Retrieved from https://www.aacu.org/about/statements/academic-freedom
• American Council on Education (2018.) Campus Inclusion and Freedom of Expression: Controversial Speakers. Retrieved from
https://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Documents/To-The-Point-Controversial-Speakers.pdf
• American Psychological Association. (2018, Oct. 30). APA stress in America survey: Generation Z stressed about issues in the
news but least likely to vote. Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/10/generation-z-stressed.aspx
• Anti-Defamation League (2018). Understanding Bias and Hate on Campus. Retrieved from https://www.adl.org/hate-uncycled
• Adams v. The Trustees of North Carolina–Wilmington, 640 F.3d 550. (4th. Cir., 2011). Retrieved from
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1562438.html
• Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. (2017). Freedom of Speech on Campus. Retrieved from
https://www.agb.org/sites/default/files/u27335/report_2017_free_speech.pdf
• Bauer Wolf, J. (2018, October 17). Student affairs leaders lean left. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/10/17/student-affairs-administrators-even-more-liberal-professors-survey-
shows
• Blackwell, M. (2018, March 10). The psychology of progressive hostility. Retrieved from
https://quillette.com/2018/03/10/psychology-progressive-hostility/
• Bressler, M.S., & Von Bergen, C.W. (2017). Viewpoint diversity and discrimination in higher education. Global Journal of
Business Pedagogy, 8, 23- 49. Retrieved from http://homepages.se.edu/cvonbergen/files/2018/02/Viewpoint-Diversity-and-
Discrimination-in-Higher-Education.pdf

• Campus Clashes Over Free Speech. (2018, January). The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from
https://www.chronicle.com/resource/campus-clashes-over-free-speec/6524/
• Chemerinsky, E. (2017, December 26). Hate speech is protected free speech, even on college campuses. Vox. Retrieved from
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/10/25/16524832/campus-free-speech-first-amendment-protest
• Chemerinsky, E., & Gillman, H. (2017). Free speech on campus. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• EAB. (2017, June 22). Navigating the New Wave of Student Activism. Retrieved from https://www.eab.com/research-and-
insights/student-affairs-forum/studies/2017/navigating-the-new-wave-of-student-activism-study
• Engagement Insights: Survey Findings on the Quality of Undergraduate Education. (2017). National Survey of Student
Engagement. Retrieved from
https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/files/NSSE%20Annual%20Results%202017-Embargoed.pdf
• Freiman, C. (2018, October 8). Why it’s vital that academe have more viewpoint diversity. Insider Higher Ed. Retrieved from
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/10/08/why-its-vital-academe-have-more-viewpoint-diversity-opinion
• Gallup. (2016). Free expression on campus: A survey of U.S. college students and U.S. adults. Retrieved from
https://www.knightfoundation.org/media/uploads/publication_pdfs/FreeSpeech_campus.pdf
• Garcetti v. Ceballos. 547 U.S. 410 (2006). Retrieved from https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/547/410.html
• Gardenswartz, L., & Rowe, A. (1994). Diverse teams at work: Capitalizing on the power of diversity. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• H. 4440. 2018 General Assembly, 122nd Session. (S.C. 2018). Retrieved from https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-
2018/bills/4440.htm

• Haidt, J. (2012). The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion. New York, NY: Pantheon Books.
• Heterodox Academy (n.d.). The problem. Retrieved from https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-problem/
• Heterodox Academy. (2018, February 2). Heterodox Academy: What is Viewpoint Diversity? Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bklwq2LBjI&t=2s
• Hudson, D. L., & Melemaikalani, M. (2017, April 26). Academic freedom for public university professors: unsettled questions in
the wake of Garcetti V. Ceballos. Freedom Forum Institute. Retrieved from https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-
amendment-center/topics/freedom-of-speech-2/free-speech-and-government-employees-overview/academic-freedom-for-
public-university-professors-unsettled-questions-in-the-wake-of-garcetti-v-ceballos/
• Lindsay, T. (2018, February 28). 35 Universities adopt 'The Chicago Statement' on free speech--1,606 To
• Go. Forbes. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2018/02/28/35-universities-adopt-the-chicago-
statement-on-free-speech-1590-to-go/#85461d1771bf
• Lukianoff, G., & Haidt, G. (2015). The coddling of the American mind. The Atlantic. Retrieved from
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
• Lukianoff, G., & Haidt, G. (2018). The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a
Generation for Failure. New York, NY: Penguin Press.
• Malcolm, J. L. (2018). Building a culture of free expression on the American college campus. American Council of Trustees and
Alumni Institute for Effective Governance. Retrieved from https://www.goacta.org/images/download/building-a-campus-
culture-of-free-expression.pdf
• McCammon, M. (2018). Freedom of Expression at the University of Chicago [Interview Transcript]. Retrieved from
http://uchicagogate.com/articles/2018/10/2/freedom-expression-university-chicago-conversation-professor-geoffrey-stone/

• McCreary, G. (2016, May 4). The subtle art of creating unsafe spaces. [Blog post]. Retrieved from
https://doctorgentry.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-subtle-art-of-creating-unsafe-spaces.html
• Nwanevu, O. (2018, March 23). When “free speech” is a marketing ploy. Slate. Retrieved from https://slate.com/news-and-
politics/2018/03/when-campus-free-speech-is-a-marketing-ploy.html
• Parke, C. (2018, October 12). Left-wing student charged for attacking pro-life protest. Fox News. Retrieved from
https://www.foxnews.com/us/left-wing-student-charged-for-attacking-pro-life-protest
• Phillips, N. (2018, March 5). What are the limits of viewpoint diversity? [Blog post]. Retrieved from
https://heterodoxacademy.org/thelimitsofviewpointdiversity/
• Quintana, C. (2018, July 24). Colleges are creating ‘a generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes,’ Sessions
Say. Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from https://www.chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Are-Creating-a/243997
• Routledge, C. (2016, October 24). We champion racial, gender and cultural diversity--Why not viewpoint diversity? Scientific
American. Retrieved from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/we-champion-racial-gender-and-cultural-diversity-
why-not-viewpoint-diversity/
• Schauer, Frederick. (2017). When speech meets hate. University of Virginia Magazine, 41-43. Retrieved from
http://uvamagazine.org/articles/when_speech_meets_hate
• University of Chicago (2015). Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression. Retrieved from
https://freeexpression.uchicago.edu/sites/freeexpression.uchicago.edu/files/FOECommitteeReport.pdf

Links to Collections of Works/Essays
• Free Speech Policy Compendium. (2018, January 9). EAB. Retrieved from https://www.eab.com/research-and-
insights/student-affairs-forum/resources/2018/free-speech-policy-compendium
• The Righteous Mind (collection of essays and scholarly works covering confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, tribalism, and
viewpoint diversity). Retrieved from: https://righteousmind.com/viewpoint-diversity/
• University of Virginia’s Free Speech Reporting Website: https://freespeech.virginia.edu/
• UCI Law Library Treatises on the First Amendment: http://libguides.law.uci.edu/treatises/first-amendment

Everyone is entitled
to his own opinion.
But he is not entitled
to his own facts.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Every man has a right
to his own opinion,
but no man has a right
to be wrong in his facts.
- Bernard Baruch

Multiple types of
“fake news”

Why do people
believe fake news?

1. Check for bias
(yours and theirs)

3. Think – or at
least read –
before you RT

4. Challenge it
(respectfully)

Tell us what you think!
• Get out your phone, laptop, tablet, etc.
• Go to srs.campuslabs.com
• Type in code 23324

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