Mural Credit: "Education through Struggle", painted in 1995 by Darryl Mar, lead artist and UCLA AAS MA alumni and student members of Concerned Asian Pacific Students for Action and other supporters. It is located at the Asian American Studies Center in UCLA's Campbell Hall third floor. Learn more.UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council
The University of California Ethnic Studies Council is a collaborative forum for addressing the varied needs on each campus – both those with fully established departments as well as those in the process of developing new ethnic studies programs and curricula. Membership is available to all UC faculty currently teaching in UC Ethnic Studies departments or units.
The UC Ethnic Studies Council is an alliance of all Ethnic Studies discipline focused departments, programs and faculty across our 10 campuses.
Area H Informational Video
General Assembly
Friday, October 27th, 2023 10 AM-12 PM
Demand the Implementation of Area H: Sign the Petition
California’s AB 101 that mandates one ethnic studies course for the graduating high school class of 2030 has already been approved. By 2025-26 high school ES courses must be on the books. UC BOARS (Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools) has already overwhelmingly voted to approve Area H (the general education requirement for Ethnic Studies) on two separate occasions. As California’s leading educational institution, UC needs to support high school teachers to implement this curriculum in our schools.
Statement on Bias in UC Statements
In the strongest possible terms, the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council, a diverse statewide body that represents over 300 faculty systemwide, rejects recent UC administrative communications that distort and misrepresent the unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and thereby contribute to the racist and dehumanizing erasure of Palestinian daily reality.