Town hall to discuss diversity-related GE requirement
By Jessica Doumit
April 23, 2014 12:56 a.m.
Undergraduate student government officials are hosting a town hall Wednesday to give faculty and students a chance to discuss the development of a new diversity-related general education requirement.
The town hall, which will be led by history professor Robin D.G. Kelley, is open to all UCLA students and faculty. Other faculty members will be present, including those from the College Faculty Executive Committee, which oversees undergraduate academic programs.
Christina Palmer, the chair of the College Faculty Executive Committee, recently asked several faculty members to sit on a College Diversity Initiative Committee that will develop a proposal for a diversity requirement.
Professor M. Belinda Tucker, vice provost of the Institute of American Cultures, and Michael Alfaro, an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, are set to co-chair the committee.
The most recent effort to pass a diversity-related general education requirement failed in 2012 after the UCLA Academic Senate, the faculty body governing undergraduate curriculum, voted down a proposal for the requirement. Students and faculty have tried to pass a requirement several times in the past.
