Professor Barbara Mujica Publishes article: Veterans: Make Your Voices Heard on Campus
Professor Barbara Mujica, GUSVA Advisor, has published a new article in the Huffington Post titled "Veterans: Make Your Voices Heard on Campus". Below is a excerpt from the article:
I knew it would happen. As soon as my article "Why Professors Love Veterans" went up, the emails started pouring in. Most writers celebrated academics' support for veterans, but some remarked that their own experience contradicted my rosy assessment of faculty attitudes.
"It's not like that in Engineering," one writer told me. "My professors don't love veterans!"
"It's no better than after Vietnam," wrote another.
A medical student complained that her pacifist professor constantly berated her in front of classmates for her military service. "I can't succeed in this class!" she said. "He doesn't want me to be an Army doctor!" Do professors have the right to their anti-military opinions? Of course they do. Do they have the right to publically humiliate students who have served? Absolutely not!
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