This is a reminder to register by Thursday, February 28 for the Defining Diversity Event on March 4th from 3-4pm in the PoE Commons in Wallace Hall.  

If a university is a bastion of academic freedom, can the students be required to take diversity courses?

If a university is a bastion of academic freedom, isn’t it just the place where students can, and should, learn about diverse ideas, cultures, approaches, disciplines, languages, experiences, and people?

In 2012, the UW Student Diversity Coalition proposed to establish a diversity course requirement for all students.  They stated that such a requirement is central to a core value of the University – to produce educated global citizens.

•  what’s important  enough to be a requirement for all UW students?
• what do general education requirements say about the university’s values?
• who gets to (should) decide what’s core to a student’s basic education?
• what difference would one course make?

 And, should the College of the Environment wait until a requirement is passed, or should we proactively institute our own courses, and course requirements?  Join the latest Conversation on Defining Diversity (CoDD) in the College of the Environment as we look at all sides of this issue.