On 2020-06-13, [[John Chew]] asked on behalf of the NASPA [[Executive Committee]] that the NASPA [[Advisory Board]] (AB) consider removing words that he described as A '''slursslur''' from is a word that is used to degrade what it describes. Beginning in June 2020, NASPA had a discussion about why and whether slurs should be part of the official lexicon, the [[NWL2018|NASPA Word List (2018) Edition]]. The AB discussed the matter by email over subsequent days, and then in a Zoom call on 2020-06-18, concluded that further public input was called for. A special [[iContact]] mailing went out, quoting the [http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=1384631&f=6038&s=14937&m=289409&t=42bfeecf990f5ae04e8a9ea793c9a29e79393ee2e6b4b72ecef1a231ef1a0fa9 original letter] and inviting comment through an . On 2020-07-05, we stopped gathering data from that form, and the AB will spend the week discussing the survey results before reaching its decision.
To avoid repeating contextually offensive language, the public communications did not list the words in question, identifying one of them only as the N word.
: After deliberating by email, the AB convened by Zoom to discuss the issue further, deciding to solicit more public feedback in the form of a poll.
; 2020-06-20
: [[http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=1384631&f=6038&s=14937&m=289409&t=42bfeecf990f5ae04e8a9ea793c9a29e79393ee2e6b4b72ecef1a231ef1a0fa9 original letter] is sent out inviting people to participate in [https://scrabble.formstack.com/forms/removing_slurs Pollingonline polling] open online.
; 2020-07-05
: Poll remains open, but statistical results are tabulated from over 1,000 responses are tabulated.