CSU ACADEMIC SENATORS (ASCSU) OPPOSE CHANCELLOR TIMOTHY WHITE’S ETHNIC STUDIES CHANGES AND NOW CSU TRUSTEES MUST DECIDE The CSU Council on Ethnic Studies Asks CSU Trustees to Help Maintain the Integrity of AB1460 Ethnic Studies Graduation Requirement ASCSU voted against a forced general education (GE) requirement ASCSU voted that each campus should have autonomy around […]
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The Equal Justice Society (EJS) Sends Letter of Support
EJS supports AB1460 Implementation as a Stand-Alone Requirement
CSU Academic Senate Sides with Ethnic Studies Faculty
CSU Senators stand with CSU Council on Ethnic Studies to Oppose the Chancellor’s Attempts to Circumvent Ethnic Studies Graduation Requirement See Resolution Below Dated November 13, 2020
Additional Sample Advocacy Letter
Draft Sample AB1460 Advocacy Letter 11/08/2020 Dear (ASCSU, Board of Trustees, Chancellor White, Governor Newsom, …) As a ___[insert title or role, e.g. Professor, chair of…], I write to strongly encourage you to support the California State University (CSU) Council on Ethnic Studies’ (CES) proposal to implement the Weber Bill AB1460 Ethnic Studies requirement as […]
How to Support
Contact CSU Board of Trustees Members and Ask Them to Oppose Chancellor White List of CSU Board of Trustees Members Sample Letter to CSU Board of Trustees Members Contact CA Elected Officials and Ask Them to Oppose Chancellor White List of CA Elected Officials by CSU Campus Sample Letter to CA Elected Officials Contact Governor […]
AB 1460 Fact Checking
To Counteract Misleading FAQ Contributors: Roberto Hernandez, Jose Navarro, Susana Gallardo, Gina Masequesmay
Sample Letter to CA Elected Officials
November 6, 2020 Dear _____, We write to you as members of the California State University Council on Ethnic Studies (CSUCES) first to express our appreciation for your support in the passage of AB1460, which requires an Ethnic Studies CSU graduation requirement. Owing to the leadership of Assemblymember Dr. Weber, and the advocacy of many […]
Sample Letter to CSU Board of Trustees Members
Dear Board of Trustee Member ________, On behalf of Ethnic Studies faculty, we write to express our strong support for implementation of AB 1460 as a stand-alone graduation requirement that can be fulfilled by taking an upper or lower division ethnic studies class taught by ethnic studies faculty in any of the CSU’s ethnic studies […]
Position on Implementation of the Ethnic Studies Graduation Requirement
It is our position that the Ethnic Studies graduation requirement be a free-standing graduation requirement and that the Chancellor’s Office proposed area of “F” in GE be withdrawn. For it is unnecessary, problematic, and counterproductive on several levels.
Core Competencies for Ethnic Studies Systemwide Graduation Requirement
We, the California State University Council on Ethnic Studies, approve all of the following as our core competencies. These competencies include a minimum number of criteria and a minimum number of learning objectives to be used by campus-specific Ethnic Studies experts and each campus’s academic senate curricular bodies to determine if a lower-division or upper […]