Week 9 Assignment

1.) In Paragraph 7 it states that there are"three major types of change" Three is a signal word to give you a heads up about how many changes have taken place.
List the three changes mentioned in the article

The three major types of changes that have taken place are
1. Faculty are speaking up more about students who worry them. Teachers are now more aware in what students write and decipher if it can be harmful or not.

2. Changes are being made to private policies. Schools want to give more leeway to contact parents with concerns without student's permission.

3. The stigma of mental illness,in some cases, has grown. Some colleges have taken in to health matters as a way to help those students who are mentally unstable.


2.) Do you agree or disagree with the changes that are mentioned?
I think i have to agree with all the changes that are taking place. It's good that the faculty are now more aware and alert of students and their writings. They may be the first to detect if a student is unstable.
While students have their privacy, i agree with the changes in the private policies of students. In cases like these, having your privacy be taken a little from you is worth it.
Having campus mental health, i believe, is very important. It can at least maybe detect, prevent or even help the student if he/she is mentally unstable.


3.) What is the problem that many faculty members realized?
with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, many faculty hadn’t realized that the law applies only to educational records, not observations of classroom behavior, or that it contains numerous exceptions.
Federal officials want to clarify privacy guidelines so faculty won’t hesitate to report potential threats. Faculty didn't wan to interrupt privacy to much because of theses laws, but it the law only pertained about education.