Daily Debriefing
Over 100 Cornell University students signed a petition against a proposed diversity course requirement that students believe will limit their academic freedom, The Cornell Daily Sun reported. The Campus Liberty Project, the group spearheading the petition, believes that the university should encourage students to explore individual interests to promote diversity. In January, Cornell's Student Assembly released a seven-page report exploring the implementation of a diversity course requirement. The report suggested multiple ways to enact the change, including introducing a mandatory course for freshmen, giving existing courses diversity credit to fill the requirement and increasing core classes' focus on concepts of diversity.