In response to California’s new ethnic studies course requirement

EPSP Associate Professor Nolan Cabrera recently wrote a piece for The Conversation about the new California law that requires college students in the state university system to take ethnic studies courses in order to graduate.

"In essence, the California state legislature has made it mandatory for the nearly 500,000 students in the Cal State system to take the classes that student activists and others fought for universities to implement decades ago. While these classes are not without controversy, as a scholar who studies racial dynamics on college campuses, I argue their benefits outweigh their liabilities."