The Chapman Department of Campus and Student Life, in conjunction with the former Center for Global Citizenship, recently announced the commission of a new Galactic Citizens educational criterion to be immediately applied to admissions, majors, and required credits. The announcement marks an ambitious development on the previous “Global Citizens” program, which required language classes and study abroad credits. “No other University to my knowledge has the ambition for such a program,” new program coordinator Laura Michaelson said. “In addition to the newly required 9 credits in interactive Galactic Studies, students will now be required to participate in Semester in Space, as well as a research program or media internship aboard the International Space Station. Chapman has certainly taken a promising step towards becoming the Galactic Education Center of the West”.
Despite the considerably enhanced reputation that the announcement is expected to bring, a few student critics have decried to loss of Chapman’s traditional emphasis on personal education and a local feel. “The cost of space launches is expected to cause a 10,000% increase in tuition alone,” Sophomore Lance Alberts said. “Plus how often does NASA even launch spaceships? A few times a year? That’s going to be a really crowded class.”
But despite the drawbacks the Board of Regents is confident that the increase in tuition and academic requirements will ultimately strengthen Chapman’s academic fabric. “The fact is, the Global Citizens approach just wasn’t stringent enough,” an unnamed University spokesman said. “The large contingent of students from Southern California at this school just don’t really care enough about the outside world or global culture to travel more than 30 minutes from home. We figured the only remedy was to take them out of this world.”
Several students agreed. “I guess I’d stop skipping class to go to the beach if each class cost a million dollars,” Chapman freshman Sarah Lawrence said. “I don’t know if I’d ever do a Space thing major though because I’m already a Dance major and it’s like really hard.”
President Doti expressed strong support for the new program but refused to comment on the possibility of adding more globes to the future Galactic Citizens Plaza. However, unnamed sources tell The Daily Chapman, “The Jupiter steel ball is going to be amazing.”
More on this as it develops.
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