Harvard to Discontinue Use of ‘House Master’ Title
3rd December 2015
Harvard College plans to change the title of its heads of residential housing from “house master,” the traditional term, to a new term that will better reflect “the 21st-century needs of residential student life,” according to a letter to students from the college dean, Rakesh Khurana.
The change, announced in an email sent out Tuesday, comes after long discussion over whether the term “master” has connotations of slavery, and in the wake of recent protests at Harvard and other colleges over racial bias, from the real to the symbolic
I suggest ‘Head Coddler’ as being an accurate reflection of the position’d duties.
December 7th, 2015 at 19:55
How about “Lead Babysitter”?