Virginia Commonwealth University dropped its “racial literacy” class requirement because the school said it does not have enough instructors to provide qualifying courses to the incoming 5,000 freshmen and transfer students.
“The university needs more courses, and more course sections, to offer before this requirement can be fully implemented,” the provost stated in a July 31 message to the university community. “When you consider the typical number of entering, first-time students and transfer students, VCU has an annual need of approximately 5,000 student seats.”
“We cannot, in good faith, require of students something they have no opportunity to meet,” Provost Fotis Sotiropoulos stated.