To ensure professors and students pronounce each other’s names correctly, all University of Minnesota system campuses will implement a name pronunciation software into Canvas next month. The software, ...

Pronouncing a person’s name correctly matters, especially in professional situations. Yet those of us with names that may be considered “unusual,” “foreign” or “difficult to pronounce” constantly find ...

When Tresor Brill enters a classroom for the first time at the start of each semester, she knows what to expect: readings, class discussions, homework—and the professor mispronouncing her name (which ...

SHAKOPEE, Minn. (WCCO) --Rebecca Fobes is a speech language pathologist at Jackson Elementary School in Shakopee. Whether her students are having trouble pronouncing their "r"s or making "th" sounds, ...

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo is preparing to open up its new 12-acre, $198 million student housing project in Fall 2018, but first they'll have to overcome a surprising ...