The website “What Will They Learn?” gives Smith College a grade of “F” because they have no general education requirements such as composition, literature, foreign language, U.S. government, history, economics, mathematics or science. So, for $64k per year, what exactly do they teach?
Smith College has launched a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week telephone hotline that allows students to anonymously report allegations of bias, discrimination, harassment and other sources of profound psychological distress.
Ladies at the fancypants, all-female bastion who experience bias incidents can now call a toll-free number — 855-805-7490 — provided by EthicsPoint, a private company that many institutions utilize to allow confidential reports of legal violations, corruption and the like.
Students at Smith — where a single year of tuition, fees and room and board costs $63,914 — can also make their bias reports using a web portal offered by EthicsPoint.
Smith College president Kathleen McCartney announced the 24-hour bias incident reporting system earlier this fall via a campus-wide email.
EthicsPoint will complement “our existing reporting options by providing students, staff, and faculty with a way to report concerns anonymously about illegal behavior, fraud, discrimination, bias and more,” McCartney’s email said, according to The Sophian, the Smith student newspaper.
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A Smith webpage entitled “Conduct & Ethics Reporting” lists about three dozen violations which students can report to EthicsPoint. Many of the violations are related to fraud — embezzlement, for example, as well as plagiarism and misappropriation of different kinds of funds. There’s also unsafe working conditions and “inappropriate use of humans or animals involved in research.”
Officials at Smith rank “bias incidents” on a par with these kinds of violations.
The “Conduct & Ethics Reporting” webpage lengthily defines a “bias incident” as “an act of bigotry, harassment or intimidation committed by a member of the Smith community against another member of the Smith community based on their age, color, creed, disability, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion, nation/ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status.”
“Bias incidents” include — but certainly are “not limited to” — “slurs, graffiti, written messages, or images.”
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