Unless you've got tenure, in which case you can call them anything you like because nothing can be done to stop you.
Thereby creating a class system here at CUNY, which should cause your head to explode because you've believed that class distinctions are evil and must be destroyed ever since you first cut your teeth as a pseudo-intellectual way back in eighth grade.
Once the Jewel in the Crown of New York education. My father graduated from Queens College in the late 40s. Wrecked by open admissions and pc propaganda.
Or maybe not. What a load of Horse Crap!
My first college year I had a business class with a professor who always called each student “mister” or “miss.” I found it very respectful and admired him greatly. Hard to believe he would now probably charged with a hate crime and thrown in jail.
Democracy is getting people to agree with you. Communism is making people afraid to disagree.