Bill Text: CA AB654 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: University of California: ethnic studies.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB654 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 654
| Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes |
February 09, 2023 |
An act to add Article 6.1 (commencing with Section 92652) to Chapter 6 of Part 57 of Division 9 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to the University of California.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 654, as amended, Cervantes.
University of California: ethnic studies.
The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust, and requires the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes. These provisions grant the regents all the powers necessary or convenient for the effective administration of its trust.
This bill would request the University of California to collaborate with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the California Community Colleges Ethnic Studies Faculty
Council, and the University of California Ethnic Studies Council to develop a process for the University of California to approve eligible community college ethnic studies courses, as meeting an existing undergraduate graduation requirement at the university, for students who transfer to the university from the California Community Colleges. establish an ethnic studies undergraduate graduation requirement at the university.
