1. Panel On Understanding and Accommodating Identity on Campus

2. CPE Credits
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3. Martin Warner, Registrar
Swarthmore College
Small liberal arts college
1550 enrollment

4. Joseph Salomone PhD, University Registrar
Private Research University
Founded in 1891 in Philadelphia
Over 24,000 Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Medical School and Law School
Quarter and Semesters

5. Rose Ann Jubinski, Business Applications Analyst
The University of Scranton
Founded in 1888
Catholic and Jesuit University
5000+ students enrolled: 3800 undergrad grad

6. Agenda
Understanding Gender and Identity
Changing the vocabulary
Name Changes: Legal, Preferred or Chosen
Designated Pronouns
Gender Marker and Gender Stratifications: Beyond Male & Female designations
Gender Identity & Developing an Inclusive Campus Culture
AACRAO Initiatives
Questions

7. Understanding Gender and Identity
Dimensions of Gender

While our gender may begin with the assignment of our sex, it doesn’t end there. A person’s gender is the complex interrelationship between three dimensions:
Body: our body, our experience of our own body, how society genders bodies, and how others interact with us based on our body.
Identity: our deeply held, internal sense of self as male, female, a blend of both, or neither; who we internally know ourselves to be.
Expression: how we present our gender in the world and how society, culture, community, and family perceive, interact with, and try to shape our gender. Gender expression is also related to gender roles and how society uses those roles to try to enforce conformity to current gender norms.
Each of these dimensions can vary greatly across a range of possibilities. A person’s comfort in their gender is related to the degree to which these three dimensions feel in harmony. Let’s explore each of these dimensions in a little more detail.
Gender Spectrum (2017) Dimensions of Gender. Retrieved from: https: //

8. Changing the Vocabulary
Is it preferred, chosen, or designated?
The difference between what I choose to call myself versus what I was named at birth
Pronouns
How would I like people to refer to me in the third person
Gender, sex, sexual orientation
Gender relates to identity; how do I see myself
Gender expression relates to the outward appearance of my identity
Sex (in the recordkeeping context) may refer to my anatomical structures
Sexual orientation is about my immutable attraction to other people
Markers are the words I use to describe the above
AACRAO (2017). Best Practices for Recording Gender Identity/Expression, Designated Pronouns, & Preferred Names in Enrollment Services

9. Name Changes: Legal and Preferred or Chosen How is this accomplished
Name Changes: Legal and Preferred or Chosen How is this accomplished?- Policies, Procedures & Systems and changing the climate. Why is this important?- It is about student success and the student experience. In addition it is about creating that culture of inclusion. We have a name change policy already, so we are ok, right? It probably is a legal name change policy and if you are not thinking about preferred names, you should. Do I need to start thinking about it, I haven’t had any issues….yet? Yes everyone needs to think about the implications.

10. Name Changes: Legal and Preferred or Chosen Official requires formal documentation, evidencing the change Preferred or Chosen are name accommodations that still preserve the legal name in the ERP but allow for the preferred name (stored in the ERP) to appear on front facing interfaces and documents, such as: course and grade rosters, online directory listings, identification cards, and other institutional records and documents. Stakeholders in this process: Everyone Students (all), faculty and staff

11. Name Changes: Legal and Preferred or Chosen Discuss Best Practices amongst Schools

12. Designated Pronouns Discuss Best Practices amongst Schools

13. Gender Marker and Gender Stratifications: Beyond Male & Female
Discuss Best Practices amongst Schools

14. Gender Identity & Developing an Inclusive Campus Culture

15. LGBT Roadmap (Shane Windmeyer-Campus Pride)
Create a more inclusive campus and look to policies with a holistic process of inclusion.
You have to start somewhere, ideas lead to baby steps which then can become major accomplishments.
Seek Institutional commitment: Diversity offices and Offices of Equality and Diversity
LGBT Roadmap (Shane Windmeyer-Campus Pride)
Campus Pride’s National College Climate Survey
A National Study by the Q Research Institute for Higher Education Written by Sue Rankin, Ph.D., Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld, Ed.D., Genevieve N. Weber, Ph.D., LMHC & Somjen Frazer, MS, Ed.

16. 5 Critical Strategies Improve Access & Retention Efforts
Offer Comprehensive Counseling & Healthcare
Considerations for On Campus Housing
Respond Appropriately to Anti-LGBTQ Incidents/Bias
Integrate LGBTQ Issues and Concerns in Curricular and Co-Curricular
Education
Demonstrate Institutional Commitment
Develop Inclusive Policies
Rankin, S., Weber, G., Blumenfeld, W., and Frazer, M.S (2010) State of Higher Education
for LGBT People Charlotte, NC: Campus Pride

17. AACRAO Initiatives

18. AACRAO Outreach and Resources
Webinars
Best Practices: Gender Identity/Expression in Admissions and Campus Life
Best Practices for Recording Gender Identity/Expression, Designated Pronouns, & Preferred Names in Enrollment Services
Student Identity Work Group
Resources

20. Focus
Data collection (gender identity and sex)
Policies and Procedures
Gender marker updates
Legal name changes
Preferred names
Designated pronouns
SIS Implications
Best practices and recommendations
Process
Gather feedback from member organizations
Gather feedback from advocacy agencies and content experts
Presentations
Vendor Roundtable
White paper and recommendations
Timeline
Appointments early December 2016
Recommendations December 2017

21. Open to the Floor
Questions
Comments

22. Thank You
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