In the News

  • Pro-Palestinian UC students feel they are not supported. Some of the faculty are organizing to change that

    December 21, 2023

    University of California faculty members across the system have launched an unprecedented organizing effort to defend campus advocates for Palestinian rights who feel unsupported after reporting widespread harassment and threats triggered by the Israel-Hamas war. (from the Los Angeles Times)

  • UC Ethnic Studies Requirement Waylaid by Israel-Hamas War

    January 8, 2024

    The University of California system plans to institute a proposed admissions requirement in ethnic studies, but the process to draft and approve course criteria has dragged on for more than two years and been at the center of controversy about how Israel would be discussed in high school ethnic studies classes, if at all. (from Inside Higher Ed)