"Field trip or an extra 5 points." The offer to students at the University of California-Berkeley sounded like a typical offer for students to go to a special exhibit at a museum or lecture at an institute. The "field trip" referenced by graduate assistant Victoria Huynh was joining a protest "against settler-colonial occupation of Gaza." This extra credit offer is all too typical of higher education today, where advocacy is now being taught as if it were a course of study. After an outcry, the school solved the problem by ordering "a number of options for extra credit, not just one." Many advocacy-based classes have course descriptions that sound analytical and clinical. The UC
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