That UCLA is on the verge of approving a new policy to require students to take some sort of diversity course to graduate is not surprising. Many universities foist such extraneous indoctrination on students.
What is surprising is the large and vocal contingent of professors who bravely called out the requirement for what it is – an unnecessary and biased burden, financial and otherwise, on students and the school. Or as one astute scholar labeled it: “Ideological puffery.”
The faculty vote to approve the requirement didn’t exactly sail through. It was 332 to 303. What’s more, this effort has been raised at least twice before in the last decade and both times it failed.
There is a strong contingent of conservative, libertarian and practical professors at UCLA who are willing to stand up for common sense. They were outvoted this time. But it’s refreshing to see they put up a good fight at all, and were able to convince a large number of their peers to vote “no” as well.”