{"id":13050,"date":"2024-01-18T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13050"},"modified":"2024-01-15T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T18:30:41","slug":"university-of-florida-pushes-back-on-offer-of-academic-credit-for-pronoun-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13050","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida Pushes Back on Offer of Academic Credit for Pronoun Listing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2024\/01\/15\/pronoun-policing-university-of-florida-pushes-back-on-professor-offering-academic-credit-for-pronoun-listing\/\">Jonathan Turley:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is an interesting controversy brewing at the University of Florida after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/soccrim.clas.ufl.edu\/mcclellan\/\">Professor Autumn McLellan<\/a>&nbsp;offered academic credit for those who list their pronouns in class. The University has pushed back that \u201cpronoun policing\u201d is not a valid basis for academic credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversy arose after conservative&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yaf.org\/news\/florida-professor-offering-extra-credit-to-students-who-declare-their-pronouns\/\">groups<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-of-florida-criticizes-own-professor-for-policing-pronouns\/\">sites<\/a>&nbsp;reported on the offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor McLellan sent out a notice to class that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cGuessing or assuming a person\u2019s pronouns can lead to uncomfortable and unwelcoming environments. Displaying your pronouns helps others know how to address you respectfully, even if you feel like your pronouns should be \u2018obvious\u2019 to other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>McLellan teaches sociology and criminology with stated interests \u201cCollective Action\/Social Movements\u201d and \u201cStratification\/Inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many faculty and students object to requirements or pressure to use alternative pronouns on political, religious, or biological grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University itself was quick to push back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Turley: There is an interesting controversy brewing at the University of Florida after&nbsp;Professor Autumn McLellan&nbsp;offered academic credit for those who list their pronouns in class. The University has pushed back that \u201cpronoun policing\u201d is not a valid basis for academic credit. The controversy arose after conservative&nbsp;groupsand&nbsp;sites&nbsp;reported on the offer. Professor McLellan sent out a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13051,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050\/revisions\/13051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}