Penn State will remove gendered, binary terms like 'freshman' and 'upperclassman' from their course and program descriptions.
The proposition recommended changing the nomenclature of college classes from freshman, sophomore, junior and senior to first-year, second-year, third-year and four-year. Among its other recommendations were replacing the terms"underclassmen" and"upperclassmen" with"lower division" and"upper division," as well as he/him/his and she/her/hers pronouns with they/them/theirs pronouns.
The impetus for the changes was to move beyond the school's lexicon of"sexist and classist" terms and to build a more inclusive and welcoming environment for all students, according to the proposition. Terms like “freshman” and “upperclassmen” carried a"strong, male-centric, binary character" and terms like"junior" and"senior" ran"parallel to western male father-son naming conventions," the proposition said. If implemented, the recommendations would be enforced in all written materials, including recruiting information, admissions materials, internal documents and school websites.The move comes at the heels of wider education and visibility on the use of nonbinary gender pronouns and terms. In a survey conducted last year by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization,The survey, which asked 40,000 LGBTQ young people ages 13 to 24, found that 75 percent of those who use pronouns other than the gender binary choose a combination of he/him, she/her and they/them to express their genders. For example, a person might use"he and they" or"she and they" or"he, she and they." An increasing number of actors and musicians have also identified as nonbinary in the past few years.
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