STANFORD, Cali. (WHNT) — Stanford University is doing a bit of backpedaling after backlash over a recently-released list of “harmful language” it aimed to remove from the school’s website and code. In ...

Stanford University is under fire for creating a list of so-called "forbidden words." The university said the intent of the list is to eliminate many forms of harmful language on Stanford websites, ...

STANFORD — Stanford University officials cited “intense recent feedback” in their decision to cast aside a newly crafted “harmful language guide” that sent the Internet into a frenzy last month for ...

Stanford University published an index of "harmful language" it plans to eliminate from the school’s websites and computer code, offering terms to be used as replacements. The Elimination of Harmful ...

Amid massive backlash within and beyond its academic community, Stanford University has backpedaled on a language initiative that deemed words such as “American" and “brave” to be “harmful.” Aimed ...

Stanford University released a guide this week on “harmful” language that it wants to remove from its online properties — noting that the term “American” is a no-go. The language guide, which was ...

An internal guide for eliminating “harmful language” at Stanford University included “American” and “survivor” as terms that should be avoided within the institution’s IT department. The guide is part ...

STANFORD — From the Internet to the national media to the holiday dinner table, much of the country has seemed to be up in arms in recent weeks over a newly discovered Stanford University “language ...

According to the guide, people should replace “American” with “US Citizen” because the term “often refers only to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the U.S. is the most ...

I mourn the death of the word “retarded” for a number of social and lexiconic reasons that have nothing to do with actual retardation, as it was understood 50 years ago. Considering today’s penchant ...

The Stanford campus in Palo Alto, Calif., is pictured. STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford University officials have decided to cast aside a newly crafted “harmful language guide” that sent the Internet into ...