The Best Laid Plans

Hmmm.  A proposed course on Community and Conflict in the Modern World has been rejected. (See below.) Maybe this now-defunct course could have usefully reviewed the pending proposal for a UCLA hotel/conference center!  Certainly, there has been conflict over that proposal in various communities.  And there will be more to come at the Tuesday, June 5, 7 pm hearing on the proposed hotel project at the Faculty Center.

From UCLA Today, June 1, 2012: Faculty in the College of Letters and Science have voted down a proposal to require all undergraduates to enroll in a general education course in a new sub-category called Community and Conflict in the Modern World.  The results of the vote by the College faculty, which began May 18 and ended May 25, were announced today (June 1) by the College’s Faculty Executive Committee, made up of faculty and student representatives. The committee put the proposal up for a vote after more than a year of discussion, analysis and revision.  "I’m deeply disappointed that the proposed new general education requirement was not approved, and I’m especially disappointed for the many students who worked with such passion to make the case for a change in curriculum set by faculty," Chancellor Gene Block said in a statement. "I supported the Community and Conflict in the Modern World proposal, an important piece of a comprehensive strategy to help expose students to different viewpoints as part of their scholarly experience...”

Full story at http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/college-faculty-vote-down-community-234674.aspx

Isn’t there a saying about best laid plans and something about mice and men?

UPDATE: The Daily Bruin has a story on the vote on the Community and Conflict course at:
http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2012/06/ucla_college_faculty_reject_community_and_conflict_in_the_modern_world_ge_requirement