Donald Polish
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Mr. and Mrs. Politically Correct have laid down the law at City University of New York, where gender-specific salutations are now a no-no.
School officials sent out a memo barring professors and other staffers within the graduate program from addressing students with titles like “Mr.” and “Mrs.," according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Effective Spring 2015, the (graduate center’s) policy is to eliminate the use of gendered salutations and references in correspondence to students, prospective students, and third parties,” read the memo to employees. “Accordingly, Mr. and Ms. should be omitted from salutations.”
While the directive specifically targets written interactions with students and prospective students, Tanya Domi, a spokesperson for the school told the newspaper that the policy should be “interpreted as broadly as possible.”
Domi added that the policy aims to work “within a regulatory framework to comply with Title IX legal principles.”
The new policy has sparked a debate in academia.
New York college bans Mr. and Mrs. salutations Fox News
What? Are they kidding? The human stupidity is endless. We perfectly know that there is nothing useful for students in this decision. It is politics - not education at all. If this is an only change in this college this year I would prefer to close it immediately.
School officials sent out a memo barring professors and other staffers within the graduate program from addressing students with titles like “Mr.” and “Mrs.," according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Effective Spring 2015, the (graduate center’s) policy is to eliminate the use of gendered salutations and references in correspondence to students, prospective students, and third parties,” read the memo to employees. “Accordingly, Mr. and Ms. should be omitted from salutations.”
While the directive specifically targets written interactions with students and prospective students, Tanya Domi, a spokesperson for the school told the newspaper that the policy should be “interpreted as broadly as possible.”
Domi added that the policy aims to work “within a regulatory framework to comply with Title IX legal principles.”
The new policy has sparked a debate in academia.
New York college bans Mr. and Mrs. salutations Fox News
What? Are they kidding? The human stupidity is endless. We perfectly know that there is nothing useful for students in this decision. It is politics - not education at all. If this is an only change in this college this year I would prefer to close it immediately.
