Pennsylvania State University will no longer use labels like “freshman,” “junior,” or “senior,” because such terms are not inclusive enough and perpetuate a Western male-dominated viewpoint.
On April 27, Penn State’s faculty senate announced the passage of an “inclusive language” resolution that has effectively banned the use of “paternalistic” terms such as “freshmen,” “junior,” “senior,” “upperclassmen,” “underclassmen,” and more, according to Penn State News.
The Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs passed the resolution — titled “Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions” — with a majority vote.
A portion of the resolution reads, “The University, as with most all academic institutions world-wide, 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. Terms such as ‘freshmen’ are decidedly male-specific, while terms such as ‘upperclassmen’ can be interpreted as both sexist and classist.”
Terms like freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior will now be replaced with labels “first-year,” “second-year,” “third-year,” and “fourth-year,” and upperclassmen and lowerclassmen will now be referred to as “upper division” students and “lower division” students.
That said, the PSU Faculty Senate can still be referred to as**oles and/or *hit**ads in whatever language you opt for. How are they going to tweak the gender of the Nittany lion?
Who cares it’s worthless
When I think of Penn State I think of State Penn, the college of Homo Child Molesters!
University is no longer relevant
Example after example of how you should not send your son or daughter to university. This country desperately needs craftsmen. Your son will make MUCH more money as a plumber or carpenter- esp. if he is reliable, hard working, not complaining, skilled, etc. Plus, – no debt and no communist ideology. It is time to starve the communist universities of children. They have become MOLOCH.
Trade industry thrives longterm. Every single time
Enough of the Bullshhhht week after week !!!!
What a out graduation time will it no longer be seniors graduating, this is just stupid. Freshmen, Juniors and seniors makes much more sense Being just numbers is to belittle them.
The Nazi controlled school is on track for WW3 !!!!!