The Faculty Assembly of the University of California voted down a measure that would have mandated applicants to take a UC approved ethnic studies course.
Ed Source reports the Assembly voted 29-12 against the proposal with 12 abstentions.
“Ethnic studies is aimed at producing critical knowledge about power, inequality, and inequity as well as the efforts of marginalized and oppressed racialized peoples to challenge systemic violence and the institutional structures that perpetuate racial injustice,” wrote the co-lead writers, Professors Christine Hong of UC Santa Cruz and Wallace Cleaves of UC Riverside.
However, opponents criticized their proposal as ideologically driven.
“Thanks to all who helped achieve this victory, and may our high school students remain protected from the poison of political indoctrination,” wrote Judea Pearl, Chancellor professor at UCLA’s Department of Computer Science on X.
The legislature previously mandated an ethnic studies course be offered by high schools beginning this year, but the law remains unfunded and Governor Newsom has indicated it will likely remain unfunded due to the state’s budget deficit.
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