Teaching Case Study: Gender Data Trouble in a Student Information System
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2023-01-03
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In 2022, StateU, a large public university in the United States, embarked on a project to collect and use personal pronouns in its information systems. The project lead and functional expert was StateU's Administrative Leader. As she prepared for the first project meeting, she reflected on lessons learned from a past project she led to expand the collection of student gender data to record legal sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation. That project involved navigating challenging decisions about user interface design, underlying databases, data privacy and security, and reporting, underpinned by the desire to best serve minoritized and vulnerable populations. She recalled that: "A society with more data about LGBTQ people is not automatically a society that is better for LGBTQ people". She wondered if collecting pronoun data was the right choice in the first place.
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Social Good and Ill: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy, database design, data ethics, decision making, gender, lgbtq
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Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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