Don’t water down ethnic studies: Though lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to make ethnic studies a CSU graduation requirement, leadership is doing everything it can to blunt progress on inclusive learning, writes Theresa Montaño, a CSU Northridge professor. -- Black Voice News

In year one, HAL will lead a cohort of five MSIs in an evaluation and planning process to determine criteria for successful participation by an MSI in the second cohort of Climates of Inequality and the COVID Crisis in year two. The second cohort will identify criteria for selection of the third cohort in year three. The first cohort includes: Rutgers University–Newark -- partnering with Ironbound Community Corporation, Shaw University -- partnering with North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, University of California, Santa Barbara/Cal State University Northridge/University of California, Riverside -- partnering with Padres Pioneros, University of Illinois at Chicago -- partnering with Alianza Americas & Little Village Environmental Organization (LVEJO), and University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez -- partnering with Fundación Surfrider Rincón. -- Rutgers Newark

Even as the Assembly and Senate voted overwhelmingly with bipartisan support to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement at the California State University, CSU management and leadership is doing everything it can to blunt progress on inclusive learning. -- Davis Enterprise

As a member of the Academic Senate at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (or Cal Poly Pomona), I'm happy to report that we recently approved an anti-racist resolution which includes support for an ethnic studies graduation requirement (06/17/20), following the examples of San Diego State University (SDSU) and California State University, Stanislaus. It's also great that California State University, Northridge's (CSUN's) Academic Senate explicitly includes AB 1460 in their resolution (02/20/20). -- LatinoLA

Sprinkle mentioned Bobby Braswell at Cal State Northridge and Dedrique Taylor at Cal State Fullerton, his two biggest coaching mentors when he was an assistant coach for almost 20 years. Both African American, they helped teach Sprinkle what they go through on a daily basis. --Bozman Daily Chronicle