Inside Higher Ed: Walking on Eggshells
Some professors and students at Utah Valley State College are a bit confused after the institution’s Board of Trustees asked last week that conservative political ideologies be taken into account regarding a planned course requirement for 2008-9.
Academic committees have worked for nearly five years to develop language for a new “global/intercultural” general education requirement for students, which was motivated in part by December 1999 recommendations from the Utah State Board of Regents’s Task Force on General Education. The report said that an educated person should “appreciate diversity” and possess the abilities “to integrate ethical, cultural, and historical considerations in the humanities” and “to relate another’s humanity to one’s own.”
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