The University of California, Berkeley, reinstates a student-led course about the history of Palestine a week after suspending it following an outcry from Jewish community leaders who called it biased, anti-Zionist and in violation of the university’s academic standards.
The course has been renamed “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Inquiry,” Jweekly reports, after originally being called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis.”
The University of California, Berkeley. (Charlie Nguyen/ Flickr, CC BY 2.0/via JTA)
Carla Hesse, executive dean of the university’s College of Letters and Science, announced Monday that she had reinstated the course, saying that procedural issues in question had been resolved and that revisions had been made to the syllabus in response to concerns that the course was promoting a political agenda, according to Jweekly.
“I fully support and defend the principles and policies of our campus that protect the academic freedom of all members of our community, whether students, faculty staff or visitors, as well as the shared governance of our campus by the administration and faculty Senate,” Hesse wrote in a letter Monday to department chairs in the division of social sciences and the divisional council of the academic senate.
— JTA
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