Resolution: 08-13 Author: Heather Hardwick Date: 4-16-96 Sponsor: Academic Affairs Committee To: Ad-Hoc Multi-Cultural Committee of the University Council

 Yeas Nays_

THE STUDENT BODY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA THROUGH ITS ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION DOES HEREBY RESOLVE:


Whereas, it has been with great interest that the Student Government Association has
 engaged in research and debate over a proposed multi-cultural curriculum
 requirement; and
 Whereas, the University is charged with preparing students for a changing and
 challenging world; and
 Whereas, many colleges and professors have understood and begun to address the
 specific and practical issues of increased cultural variety in the world; and
 Whereas, attempts to impose a "cookie-cutter", one-size-fits-all University-wide
 requirement is detrimental to the individual efforts of professors and
 departments to introduce pertinent cultural issues in their classrooms; and
 Whereas, such a requirement would channel many students unwillingly into political
 indoctrination classes which would fuel apathy and resentment in the
 classroom; and
 Whereas, the Universitys conversion to a semester system is placing a squeeze on
 the core curriculum for 1998 so that required hours need to be reduced, not
 increased; and
 Whereas, the University is a feeder school for transfer students who do not have
 access to the required courses in their pre-major years; and
 Whereas, the University should recommitt itself to the tried and true core of a
 meaningful liberal arts education with more basics in history, English, math
 and science which have been increasingly ignored in the past three decades
 SGA (08-13)
 BE IT RESOLVED THAT:
 The Student Government Association Requests that the committee studying thr Multi-Cultural
 Curriculum requirement issue recommend that the University council make no University-wide
 requirement on students.

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