“The University of Oregon is committed to the core belief that diversity of background, thought, and perspective is an absolute necessity for building academic excellence. To that end, we continuously seek opportunities to expand scholarship of racial injustice and to raise awareness of and address systemic racism and inequities on campus. This is an ongoing endeavor.”
The University of Oregon’s student government is petitioning the school to make critical race theory training a requirement to graduate from the learning institution.
During a board of trustees meeting on Wednesday, the student government made the request to require critical race theory in order for students to earn their degrees.
“I think we’ve identified this as an issue across the nation, as something that’s relevant to not only the educational value for students, but also to the wellbeing of our community,” Associated Students of UO President Isaiah Boyd said at the board of trustees’ quarterly meeting.
“My goal is to, with the undergraduate provost’s office in the winter quarter, to kind of establish the curriculum,” Boyd said, according to KEZI. “As well as our ethnic studies department, our black studies department and seeing if we can coordinate with them and open up that discussion of how can we build a system sustainable for years to come.”
Boyd added, “Obviously higher education is a center point for advancing and exchanging cultural ideas so it only makes sense to embed what the history of racism is in America.”
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