By Rebekah Riess, CNN
Penn State University s Faculty Senate has approved a proposition to remove gendered language including freshmen and upperclassmen from course and program descriptions, the university told CNN.
The Faculty Senate, which has legislative authority on educational matters at the university, voted on April 27 to pass the changes in proposition AD84 Preferred Name and Gender Identity Policy.
The rationale for the proposition states that terms like upperclassmen can be interpreted as both sexist and classist.
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Penn State To Remove Terms Sophomore And Freshman From Course Descriptions
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Penn State to remove binary gender language such as freshman from course and program descriptions
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Penn State To Remove Terms ‘Sophomore’ And ‘Freshman’ From Course Descriptions
Penn State University is removing the terms freshman, sophomore, in an effort to rid course descriptions and materials of gendered terms.
Penn State s Faculty Senate voted on April 27 to approve bill AD84 on Preferred Name and Gender Identity Policy. The recommendations, which were given to the general Senate by the Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs, were made to ensure all materials given to staff and students are inclusive, according to the student paper The Daily Collegian.
The changes will replace all pronouns in course materials and descriptions with they/them/theirs and use non-gendered terms like student or staff instead. Freshman, sophomore, junior and senior will be replaced with first-year, second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students, to move away from a typically male-centered world and rid the college of materials with a strong, male-centric, binary character.