The headline on the Yale Daily News article is more dramatic than the actual results. Most of the concerns seem to be hypothetical, rather than actual, based on the news account (e.g., students worried that the department would not take a sexual harassment complaint seriously, as opposed to the department actually having failed to do so). This bit from the article was striking:
“The departmental atmosphere toward religious people ranges from polite condescension to outright low-key hostility,” the student said.
According to the climate survey, the political and religious landscape of the department was found to be “shamefully miserable.”
One respondent wrote that while the issue did not affect them personally, it likely had a large impact on undergraduates. The individual wrote that Yale College students had asked them whether they could argue certain topics in their theses due to political content “for fear of punishment by faculty and/or other undergraduates.”
No respondents said they had seen faculty members repeatedly make such comments or jokes about progressive of left-wing political opinions, and most respondents reported that they had never or only occasionally seen faculty members make “disrespectful or dismissive” remarks concerning religious or right-wing views in such a manner that could “offend or exclude” people who hold such opinions. One respondent wrote they had occasionally witnessed discussion between faculty members and graduate students that could make “persons of traditional religious views feel quite uncomfortable.”
Since the ability to take offense is increasingly a mark of "wokeness," I suppose the religious are entitled to participate as well!
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