Campus leadership said the decision to scrap the PE program came from a desire to fall in line with other universities. “Offering PE courses for academic credit is no longer considered to be either an appropriate or common practice in higher education,” UC Davis spokesperson Melissa Blouin told The Enterprise last year. The termination of the program caused an uproar among faculty, students and the wider community last fall. Faculty protested, students circulated an online petition that more than 5,000 people signed, the student government unanimously passed a resolution opposing the decision and California State legislators wrote to campus leaders urging them to reconsider.

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by Caleb Hampton, The Davis Enterprise.

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