Mentally Ill Children: Student Government Petitions University of Oregon to Require Critical Race Theory Training for Graduation

The University of Oregon’s student government is petitioning the school to make critical race theory training a requirement to graduate from the learning institution.

During a board of trustees meeting on Wednesday, the student government made the request to require critical race theory in order for students to earn their degrees.

“I think we’ve identified this as an issue across the nation, as something that’s relevant to not only the educational value for students, but also to the wellbeing of our community,” Associated Students of UO President Isaiah Boyd said at the board of trustees’ quarterly meeting.

“My goal is to, with the undergraduate provost’s office in the winter quarter, to kind of establish the curriculum,” Boyd said, according to KEZI. “As well as our ethnic studies department, our black studies department and seeing if we can coordinate with them and open up that discussion of how can we build a system sustainable for years to come.”