Should universities provide “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” for students?

I agree with college being a place to challenge students thoughts and opinions, but I also know there may be students that have a legitimate reason for needing to sit something out. It's about balance.

they should add them, as every place should be somewhere safe for students in post secondary education.

Provide trigger warnings and safe spaces, but encourage students to challenge their thoughts and opinions.

Yes, but there needs to be a place for other students to have their own sense of comfort in terms of free expression as well.

I don't think they should be required to be provided, however, I do believe this should be something that is encouraged and in collaboration with their mental health counseling center.

Safe spaces should be provided in the sense that universities should strive for a campus free from hate and violence, as well as providing spaces in the university that are dedicated to promoting safe and healthy outlets for their students to express changes they want to see in their university.
Clubs that support creating safe spaces should be encouraged.
Teachers should include in the syllabus a run down of topics their students should be expected to engage with so students can either speak with the professor or leave the class before these topics come up in lecture.
Example: my high scho…  Read moreol teacher had us study serial killers for a psychology project. Canabilism was something I was deeply uncomfortable with and I approached the professor on switching the name I got (the cannibal clown) with a non-cannibal serial killer. He was happy to make the accommodation because I was still willing to do the work and spoke to him before the problem arose because I was made aware that was something I would have to face in this project with this person. If it was a college course and cannibalism was the main part of the lesson, then I would need to ask myself if this was a line I could not mentally cross and if it meant I may be in the wrong degree plan (a perfectly reasonable decision to come to).
You have the right to be warned in situations like entertainment and education what you will be dealing with because those are not life or death spaces and a person needs to learn if they can mentally deal with topics that trigger mental health issues.

Yes but this should be covered under accomodations for PTSD not simply for someone's personal sensitivities

Yes, trigger warnings in classrooms but safe spaces should not be the standard across all classes. Different classes require different levels of comfortability when discussing the reality of topics.

Have individual universities make that choice

Have individual colleges make that choice

It should be the individual college's choice

Yes, as long as they don't infringe on the students rights to free expression

Universities should be allowed but not required to

Students may set them up voluntarily, but they should not be enforced

They should not be required to, but these are very easy policies to implement, and can make a big difference to some people

Yes, as long as they're not state funded, an organization should be able to do what they see fit to support their students

No, but students should be allowed to forge their own safe spaces and be accommodated while in a public university.