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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 15:04:46 EDT
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From:         Bill Condon <[e-mail]>
Subject:      Help with gender-neitral terminology
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I'm a member of a group that is writing a grant to encourage
multicultural teaching methods.  As part of our proposal, we want
to train a group of people to offer workshops in multicultural
teaching to others in their home departments/disciplines.
Right now, the language in the proposal calls them "Faculty Fellows."
Can anyone help us come up with a more gender-neutral term, since
undoubtedly many of the "Fellows" will not be fellows.  We tried
"Scholars," but that doesn't really fit what they are doing, and
the issue is clouded somewhat by the fact that "Fellow" has a kind
of local cache--Michigan being a whitemale sort of place--and
we'd like to keep the implied status but get rid of the
gender-exclusiveness.  Suggestions?

Thanks,
Bill Condon
userlcbk@umichum