UC faculty have delayed sending the UC President and Board of Regents a first-year ethnic studies admissions proposal until they get more clarity from the state legislature’s upcoming budget.
Dozens of UC faculty members make up the UC Academic Senate Assembly, which on Dec. 12 pushed a critical vote back to April to have more time to decide whether to forward the measure to outgoing UC President Michael Drake and UC Provost Katherine Newman. That would be the last stop before the UC Regents and a final public vote, marking the furthest the measure has gone in two years.
The ethnic studies requirement will impact close to 200,000 California students applying to the UC and California State University systems annually by adding an area “H” to the long-standing A-G requirements that detail the various subjects students must complete during high school.
Uncertainty over how Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature will allocate additional funding for hundreds of school districts next year drove the choice to push the vote, said Steven Cheung, a professor at UC San Francisco and chair of the UC’s Academic Senate. In particular, funding for ethnic studies course development could affect a high school’s ability to meet the requirement, he added...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2024/12/26/uc-faculty-delays-proposal-for-ethnic-studies-requirement-for-incoming-students.
Although the excerpt says the delay is officially due to funding concerns, yours truly suspects that the fact that the requirement for high schools has been controversial due to content has something - maybe lots - to do with it. Here's a hint in a quote from the article:
'She alleged that one author, an ethnic studies scholar, made a “bizarre” claim that someone on the admissions committee “was surreptitiously working in league with a Jewish organization.”'
See also, for example:
https://edsource.org/2024/legislators-struggle-with-how-to-rein-in-but-not-repress-ethnic-studies/715321; https://edsource.org/2024/judge-rejects-lawsuit-over-liberated-ethnic-studies-classes-in-lausd/723380. Or just Google the topic.
The agenda item at the Academic Council can be found at:
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/assembly/assembly-agenda-12-12-24.pdf beginning at page 14. You would never know there was anything controversial from this write-up.
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