{"id":23687,"date":"2024-10-15T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T02:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=23687"},"modified":"2024-10-15T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T02:17:28","slug":"embracing-diversity-at-flinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2024\/10\/15\/embracing-diversity-at-flinders\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing diversity at Flinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An updated and more inclusive pronouns list is now live in Canvas to reflect the diversity of the Flinders community.\u00a0This is a first step in a broader effort to integrate these values across other systems across the university.<\/p>\n<p>All staff are encouraged to check out the changes, and to update their pronouns if you wish. Check out how to update your pronouns <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flindersuniversity.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-tdhdtyjd-ndhhhkhujr-y\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching staff are also encouraged to check Canvas as your students may have updated their pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is part of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flindersuniversity.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-tdhdtyjd-ndhhhkhujr-j\/\">Gender Diversity and Vocabulary Management<\/a><\/strong> project with a goal to ensuring that university systems recognise and accommodate preferred names and pronouns across all platforms. To inform this work we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consulted widely with Flinders staff and students, and reviewed practice at other universities, to refine requirements and identify areas for improvement, with focus on enhancing Gender, Title, Pronouns and Preferred Name fields.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborated with a Student Reference Group comprised of students with lived experience, whose input has shaped the updated pronouns list in Canvas.<\/li>\n<li>Developed an architectural roadmap to manage the complexity of student data, focusing on student experience enhancements in 2024 and further system integration in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, visit the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flindersuniversity.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-tdhdtyjd-ndhhhkhujr-t\/\">Gender Diversity and Vocabulary Management Project<\/a><\/strong> page or you can contact <a href=\"mailto:studentreferencegroup@flinders.edu.au\">studentreferencegroup@flinders.edu.au<\/a><u>.<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An updated and more inclusive pronouns list is now live in Canvas to reflect the diversity of the Flinders community.\u00a0This is a first step in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4182,"featured_media":23688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55563,50584,36230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-staff","category-students"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}