California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber, will begin the process of collecting petition signatures per the new initiative.

UT President Jim Davis announced the consolidation of the University’s ethnic and gender studies departments a month ago. However, faculty and students haven’t received information from the ...

California was the first state to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement. Assembly Bill 101, passed in 2021, mandates public schools incorporate critical race instruction.

UT-Austin has collapsed its race, ethnic, and gender studies into a single program while a new policy asks faculty to avoid “controversial” topics. But the attacks won’t end there.

Florida A&M University, a historically black university with 7,800 undergraduate students, announced last month that it will consolidate its black studies degree with its history, philosophy, and ...

The college’s two ethnic studies professors resigned in late 2024. Though their reasons for leaving are not fully known, just ...

Julia Barzizza is a graduate student at UC Davis. She is the winner of the 2026 UC Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality Research Black History Month Student Essay Contest, from which this ...

Last week, the University of Texas announced that it will consolidate its departments for women and gender studies, African and African Diaspora studies, Mexican American and Latina/o studies and ...

California was the first state in the nation to require students to take an ethnic studies class as a condition of graduation. But that requirement has not yet gone into effect. That requirement, ...

As pilot classes continue, the San Dieguito Union High School District board voted this month to continue offering ethnic studies as an optional ninth grade English course for students in the coming ...

This year, all California public schools were expected to adopt a high school graduation requirement teaching ethnic studies classes on the history, contributions and struggles of California's African ...