Before the fall semester of 2017 began, the CSU Chancellor proposed Executive Order 1100 which will change the general education requirements for students to graduate, allowing students to graduate in a timely manner.
Timothy White, CSU Chancellor, issued the order on August 23 which implements a 48-unit minimum which will take effect in the fall semester of 2018. Even though this order has some benefits, it deprives CSUN students of valuable courses.
According to an article by CSU Fullerton's, the Daily Titan, in social sciences (Section D) the minimum units will be lowered from 15 to 12. Classes will still be worth 3 credits. It could also allow double counting for credits. This means certain classes can count toward the GE requirement and for the student’s degree requirement.
However, this executive order will eliminate section F, which is Comparative Cultural Studies. CSUN is the only campus out of 23 CSU campuses that have this requirement, which allows students to learn about different cultures as well as their own.
Many CSUN departments like the Chicana/o Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and Africana Studies departments have voiced their opposition toward the order. According to an article by the Sundial, CSUN faculty voted not to comply with EO 1100. They are also holding “teach-ins” in the Aronstam Library in Manzanita Hall to strategize on how to stop the executive order.
It is unclear what may happen when the executive order takes effect, but the chancellor should take into consideration that if he doesn’t change this specific aspect of eliminating section F, he is erasing history.
