Los Angeles Times - April 10, 2015
The strongly supportive
vote announced Friday night was the culmination of efforts that began
two decades ago and previously faced rejections.
In a tally posted online, the campus-wide Faculty Senate voted 916 to
487 to begin the requirement for incoming freshmen in fall 2015 and new
transfer students in 2017. It would affect students in the College of
Letters and Science, which enrolls 85% of UCLA undergraduates.
The
approval in the two-week online voting is a victory for UCLA Chancellor
Gene Block. He endorsed the requirement, saying the courses would help
prepare students to live and work in a multicultural society. Other
supporters said the case for the classes was made more compelling by
several recent incidents on campus that raised allegations of
anti-Semitism and a lack of attention to racial bias.
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