Master Plan

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Wrong Direction

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In yesterday’s LA Times, Patt Morrison interviewed former UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale. Most of the interview dealt with other matters. But below is an excerpt on UC:What do you make of what’s happening to the University of California? We had this great public university, but you didn’t have to insert the word “public.” [It was] able to compete with the best of the privates. We’re losing that. We may already have lost it, in large measure. Students now pay more in tuition fees than the state provides. The resource gap is too great. It’s not as if all the fine…

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Community Colleges Push to Offer 4-Year Degrees, But Don’t Hold Your Breath Waiting for It to Happen

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Under the 1960 Master Plan, California community colleges were reorganized and given an explicit mission of AA and vocational degrees plus providing the first 2 years of college. Students who could not gain admission to UC or CSU could enter a community college and, if successful in completing the two year program, transfer to a UC or CSU campus. As is well known, the Master Plan has been eroding, certainly on tuition. There has also been some erosion of the notion that PhDs would be offered only at UC. There has been a push by some community colleges to expand…

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A CSU President Declares Master Plan Dead

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State plan for higher education ‘dead,’ CSUSM president declares: Haynes says universities must seek private partners to protect programs, services (excerpt) North County Times, 2-3-11, Deborah Sullivan Brennan California has abandoned its commitment to higher education, compelling Cal State San Marcos and other universities to seek private partnerships for their programs, university President Karen Haynes told hundreds of guests Thursday in her annual Report to the Community. “The California master plan for higher education is dead because the social compact itself is broken,” she said. “There is no longer the same sense of obligation to the next generation of Californians…

The Master Plan

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An article on the history of the Master Plan for Higher Ed has appeared aimed at challenging the standard history. Revisionist Reflections on California’s Master Plan @50 John Aubrey Douglass, University of California, Berkeley Summary: The 1960 Master Plan:• Is not the creation of one man, Clark Kerr, but the result of negotiations based on earlier innovations and planning studies • Did not create the tripartite system, invent existing mission differentiation, or seriously alter the allocation of function • Did not expand California’s commitment to mass higher education. The Master Plan shifted future enrollment demand to CCC, actually reducing access…

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What Jerry Promised

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California Watch has a summary of Jerry Brown’s “promises” concerning higher ed (and looks at the prospect for higher tuition). Below are the promises listed as summarized in the article: Jerry Brown’s higher education promises: Convene a “representative group” to create a new higher education Master Plan: “This situation calls for a major overhaul of many components of the postsecondary system. We need to convene a representative group to create a new state Master Plan.” Create an online “extended university” program: “The introduction of online learning and the use of new technologies should be explored to the fullest, as well…

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Brown and Whitman on Higher Ed

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Excerpt from California Watch: …Whitman and Brown agree that higher education needs more money. Whitman says she would get $1 billion from cuts to welfare and other reforms and would look to college officials on how to best spend those funds. Brown says he’d shift spending from prisons. Brown also proposes a new Master Plan, the long-ignored 1960 document that defined the roles of the UC, CSU and community college systems and promised a tuition-free education for all Californians. He would emphasize online classes to expand access to education, he says, and would ease the transfer process from community colleges…

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The Master Plan at 50: Using Distance Education to Increase College Access and Efficiency

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The LAO has a new report out on distance learning in higher education and degree programs under the title above. Below is the Executive Summary of that report. Below that is a video presentation related to the report:Distance Education Provides Additional Tool for Advancing Master Plan’s Goals. Fifty years ago, California adopted the Master Plan for Higher Education, a framework document designed to promote universal access for students and cost–effective coordination among the state’s colleges and universities. At the time, postsecondary education generally required students to travel to a campus for in–person classes with an instructor. Today, many students have…

Erosion of the Master Plan? CSU Doctorates

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Once upon a time, UC president Clark Kerr gave the Master Plan to Governor Pat Brown which set up a division of labor between the three segments of higher ed. That was then; this is now: CSU to offer doctorate in physical therapy, nursing Sep. 29, 2010, Sacramento Bee Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Tuesday to allow California State University campuses to award a doctoral degree in physical therapy and, at three campuses, a doctorate in nursing practice. Assembly Bills 2382 and 867 are exceptions to the state’s current practice of giving the University of California system exclusive jurisdiction to…

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Brown Statement on Higher Ed in California

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Gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown released a plan for education. Most of it deals with K-12. However, there is a section on higher ed reproduced below. It picks up on the prisons vs. higher ed theme that the current governor sounded back in January – although there is no promise of an initiative that the governor outlined at that time. From:http://www.jerrybrown.org/sites/default/files/Education%20Plan.pdf Higher EducationThe California Master Plan was created in 1960. When I was Governor in the 1970s, the Master Plan was working far better to provide college access and success. In recent years, however, the master plan has been undermined, and…