{"id":499783,"date":"2021-05-12T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=499783"},"modified":"2021-05-12T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:36:18","slug":"penn-state-nixes-labels-such-as-freshman-junior-senior-citing-lack-of-gender-inclusivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/penn-state-nixes-labels-such-as-freshman-junior-senior-citing-lack-of-gender-inclusivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Nixes Labels Such As \u2018Freshman,\u2019 \u2018Junior,\u2019 \u2018Senior,\u2019 Citing Lack Of Gender Inclusivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpenn-state-nixes-labels-such-as-freshman-junior-senior-citing-lack-of-gender-inclusivity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=499783&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Penn-State-University.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Pennsylvania State University\u2019s faculty senate passed a resolution on \u201cinclusive language\u201d that will rid the university of alleged paternalistic labels such as \u201cfreshmen,\u201d \u201cjunior,\u201d \u201csenior,\u201d \u201cupperclassmen,\u201d and \u201cunderclassmen.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs passed the \u201cRemoval of Gendered &#038; Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions\u201d resolution on April 27, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=17483\">Campus Reform<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The introduction of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/senate.psu.edu\/senators\/agendas-records\/april-27-2021-agenda\/appendix-c\/\"><span>resolution<\/span><\/a><span> claims that gendered language comes from living in a male-dominated society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe University \u2026 has grown out of a typically male-centered world. As such, many terms in our lexicon carry a strong, male-centric, binary character to them,\u201d the resolution reads. \u201cTerms such as \u2018freshmen\u2019 are decidedly male-specific, while terms such as \u2018upperclassmen\u2019 can be interpreted as both sexist and classist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Terms such as \u201cjunior\u201d and \u201csenior\u201d \u201care parallel to western male father-son naming conventions, and much of our written documentation uses he\/she pronouns,\u201d according to the resolution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another goal of the resolution is to replace gendered pronouns such as \u201che\/him\/his\u201d and \u201cshe\/her\/hers\u201d with vague pronouns such as \u201cthey\/them\/their\u201d or other \u201cnon-gendered terms such as student, faculty member, staff member, etc.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Course descriptions are the target of the proposed gendered-language change. The resolution provided an example of a proposed edit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The original course description for a theatre class on lighting design read:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p><i><span>THEA 270 Introduction to Lighting Design. Introduction to Lighting Design will focus on helping each student to develop a design process that takes him or her from script to stage.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Following the passage of the resolution, the course description will now read:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p><i><span>THEA 270 Introduction to Lighting Design. Introduction to Lighting Design will focus on helping each student to develop a design process that takes <\/span><\/i><b><i>them<\/i><\/b><i><span> from script to stage.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The resolution acknowledged that in some places gendered terms are necessary, particularly in degrees or classes with an emphasis on gender studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe committee recognizes that there may be places where these terms, especially gender terms, may need to remain intact, for example in the case of courses or degrees that delve into gender studies,\u201d the resolution reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A course description for a \u201cgender and theatre\u201d class would be allowed to include words such as \u201cwomen\u2019s\u201d and \u201cfeminist.\u201d The description would read:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><i><span>THEA 207 Gender and Theatre. Theatre 207 provides a basic survey of issues of representations of gender identity in theatre. The course will trace women\u2019s experiences in theatre from their absence on European classical stages to the more recent formation of feminist theatres.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The resolution will also replace the terms \u201cfreshman\/sophomore\/junior\/senior\u201d with the terms first-year, second-year, third-year, fourth-year, and beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Concerns were raised by staff members that numbering years beyond fourth would \u201cperhaps negatively reflect on students who, for various reasons, are taking longer to complete their (typically) four-year programs.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The resolution suggests that instead of being called \u201cfifth-year\u201d students or \u201csuper-seniors,\u201d students should be referred to as \u201cadvanced standing students.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Terms such as \u201cunderclassmen\u201d and \u201cupperclassmen\u201d were also switched to \u201clower division\u201d and \u201cupper division.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The resolution was signed by 26 professors and administrators.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Penn State is among many universities that pushed to remove gendered language from instructional and promotional materials. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=17256\"><span>Campus Reform<\/span><\/a><span>, the University of Virginia approved a student ballot measure that would remove \u201cgendered pronouns\u201d from the student government\u2019s constitution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nearly 89 percent of students who voted in the election approved of the update.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania State University\u2019s faculty senate passed a resolution on \u201cinclusive language\u201d that will rid the university of alleged paternalistic labels such as \u201cfreshmen,\u201d \u201cjunior,\u201d \u201csenior,\u201d \u201cupperclassmen,\u201d and \u201cunderclassmen.\u201d\u00a0The Senate Committee &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277898,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Penn-State-University.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Penn State Nixes Labels Such As \u2018Freshman,\u2019 \u2018Junior,\u2019 \u2018Senior,\u2019 Citing Lack Of Gender Inclusivity","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Penn-State-University.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Penn State Nixes Labels Such As \u2018Freshman,\u2019 \u2018Junior,\u2019 \u2018Senior,\u2019 Citing Lack Of Gender Inclusivity","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}