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The overall goals of the strike were to reach a consensus with the campus administration so that the educational modes must be culturally diverse and meet the needs and requirements of all the diverse students. The students mainly belonging to the minority and different ethnic groups formed a coalition on campus known as the Third World Liberation Front. The main demand was that education should be provided equally and the quality of education should reflect the needs of the culturally diverse student base within the campus. The strikes that were held in 1969 challenged the conventional approach to teaching within the campus facility. The overall demands were in line with the main goals of the student federation as the strikes helped in introducing the teaching system based on community and ethnicity, different departments of the various ethnic groups like African American and Asian Americans and learning opportunities and formally launching the programs of the Ethnic Studies.
One of the most obvious and important demands presented by the TWLF students during the strike was that a school should be formed for the Ethnic Studies based on different ethnic groups belonging from the Third World countries. The ethnic study groups will comprise of the students belonging to each ethnic organization and will have the controlling power and authority to retain and hire any faculty dean, administrator or member along with a specific planner or curriculum to study. This demand was important because, it would lead to a long-term permanent set-up for the ethnic student, empowering them within the campus facility with a separate department and professors to empower them and where they can study without discrimination or ethnic differences.
Work Cited
On Strike: Ethnic Studies 1969-1999. Dir. Irum Shiekh. 1999.
