Faculty / Staff Pronouns

This guide provides instructions on how to designate / change your pronouns. Additionally, this guides notes areas in Canvas in which your designation will show.

If you are unfamiliar with pronouns and want to learn more about its significance, we encourage you to learn more by visiting the LGBT Queer Educational Resource page: What are Pronouns?

Pronouns

1. Log in to the campus portal and access the Employee Homepage in Titan Online.

2. Click on Pronouns in the My Personal Profile section of Employee Self Service.

main HR homepage with Pronouns link highlighted

3. Read the Pronouns instructional statement

update pronouns page

4. Click on the Pronouns dropdown menu to select your preferred pronoun.

Want to enter a custom pronoun? Select Not Listed. More details are in step 6.

select pronoun

5. Based on your selection, the Subject / Object / Possessive fields will populate.

Example of He/Him/His selected as the preferred pronoun.

he/him/his example

Example of She/Her/Hers selected as the preferred pronoun.

she/her/hers example

Example of They/Them/Theirs selected as the preferred pronoun.

they/them/theirs example

Example of Use Name/Use Name/Use Name selected as the preferred pronoun.

Use Name/Use Name/Use Name example

6. Select Not Listed to enter a custom pronoun.

  • If the Not Listed option is selected, you will be required to indicate your Subject
  • Object and Possessive are optional for the Not Listed selection
Not listed selected

6.1. Examples of Not Listed

She / Her populated fields
He / Him populated fields
They / Them populated fields
Ze / Zir / Zirs populated fields
Ey / Em populated fields

7. Click Save when you are done.

save changes
Canvas

Your Pronoun preference will show in various places throughout Canvas as noted below

Discussions

Discussion page highlighting pronoun appearance

Profile

Profile page highlighting pronoun appearance

Inbox

Canvas Inbox messages

People

People page highlighting pronoun appearance

Need More Help?

For technical questions or assistance, please contact the IT Helpdesk at:

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657-278-7777

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