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Transgender Student Identities
Birds of a Feather: Name and Gender in Banner
Addy Free and Gail Starks
Macalester College and University of Vermont
April 13, 2015
Session ID 12285

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Session rules of etiquette
• Please turn off your cell phone/pager
• Please avoid side conversation during the session
• Use preferred pronouns of subject
Thank you!

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Introduction
• This session will provide a brief overview of solutions that
contribute toward respectful environments for our
transgender students.
• Solutions in both modified and unmodified instances of
Banner will be discussed.

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Agenda
• Overview of Gender and Name
• Macalester’s Unmodified Instance
• University of Vermont
• Open Discussion

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Macalester College – Unmodified
Gender
• Using Supplemental Data Engine (SDE) field keyed off
SPBPERS_SEX to store an Institutionally Recognized Gender.
Legal Sex stored in SPBPERS_SEX. Initial Sex is being stored
in a User Defined Field for Institutional Research.
• Pronouns not stored.
• Function developed to ease reporting: Code at
www.macalester.edu/registrar/fz_get_gender.txt
• Best of Breed Technology Ecosystem: 45+ systems and
processes beyond Banner.

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Macalester College – Unmodified
Name
• All students will have exactly one Legal Name Type record.
• Transitioning students will have an Institutionally Recognized
Name as their Current Identification record
(SPRIDEN_CHANGE_IND is null) and the Full Legal Name
(SPBPERS_LEGAL_NAME) will be populated.
• SPBPERS_PREF_FIRST_NAME rejected due to environment
integration and middle name considerations.

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University of Vermont – Modified
• Code available in Common Source Shared Code Repository
• Read more on NYTimes.com: tinyurl.com/uvmgender2

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Floor Open
Please share your institution’s solutions and
challenges, as well as ask questions about what you’ve
heard.
If you have a question, it’s likely that someone else
present shares your question.

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Thank you!
Addy Free Gail Starks
free@macalester.edu gstarks@uvm.edu
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Session ID 12285