“U Got This,” is beginning today at Ohio State University. “ To advance a culture of respect and care for others, the university is launching mandatory online sexual misconduct prevention education for all faculty, staff and students.”
Am I the only one who finds “culture of respect” and “mandatory education” for adults in the same sentence sort of off putting? Plus, if the unit or department already has something in place, like diversity training or toxic masculinity workshops, that doesn’t get the student out of the pan-university requirement.
If the student is also a university employee, he/she gets to take it twice and it’s required every year. According to the web page, they haven’t yet come up with discipline (aka punishment) if a student blows this off.
The production company is called Catharsis Productions and was created about 20 years ago by Dr. Gail Stern and Christian Murphy. This Atlantic article is about 4 years old, but skimming it, I think is lines up with other things I’ve read. Considered innovative, entertaining and funny, after 20 years shouldn’t we be seeing fewer assaults and bullying by now?
I checked out “U Got This” reeducation camps and they are already offered on many campuses, so Ohio State is sort of late to the party. https://titleix.osu.edu/navigation/prevention/training.html?
Of course, re-education camps come in many sizes and countries.
“Vast swathes of the Uighur population in China’s western region of Xinjiang — as well as Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other ethnic minorities — are being detained to undergo what the state calls “transformation through education.” Many tens of thousands of them have been locked up in new thought-control camps with barbed wire, bombproof surfaces, reinforced doors and guard rooms. “https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/china-re-education-camps.html
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