{"id":3382,"date":"2020-12-17T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:43:27","slug":"student-government-wants-pronouns-on-rosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/2020\/12\/student-government-wants-pronouns-on-rosters\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Government Wants Pronouns on Rosters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student pronouns may soon be added to roster sheets in Hunter College classrooms. After reports of professors misgendering students, the student government is attempting to add pronouns to class rosters.<\/span><\/p>\n

With more professors asking for pronouns at the beginning of class, the addition of pronouns to student roster sheets could help avoid awkward interactions. Other <\/span>colleges<\/span><\/a> have added pronouns to student rosters with success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI heard of instances where students were misgendered or even advocated for their own pronouns and were met with resistance or some type of challenge in the classroom, and that was something that we deemed as unacceptable on our end,\u201d Senate Chair Alexis Fischer said at a student government town hall last week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The student governmen<\/span>t is preparing a report with information from a <\/span>survey<\/span><\/a> that representatives have passed around on social media and student emails. The survey includes a question for respondents that asks why they think gender pronouns should be added to the college roster, and asks respondents if they have a personal testimony to share. The survey and testimony can be anonymous.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report\u2019s findings will be submitted to college administrators when they have a sufficient amount of responses to the survey. \u201cWith the responses that people have allowed us to share, we\u2019re going to detail that in the report,\u201d Fischer said. She also said that the college\u2019s registrar and IT offices would be involved in implementing the change.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve already had communication with one of those offices just to see if this would be possible and how it would have to work in Blackboard and what the technicalities are,\u201d she said. Ideally, students would have the option in Blackboard to input their pronouns, which would then be synced with the rosters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The survey is still being shared with hopes to accrue enough responses to submit to the administration that the student government reports to when implementing changes like these.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hunter College has not responded to The Athenian\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you know anybody queer or not, please tell them to fill the survey out and that would really help us in putting the report together and show why it\u2019s so important,\u201d Fischer said. <\/span><\/p>\n

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