Challenges and OpportunitiesFacing the UC System

Academic Business Officers GroupProvost M.R.C. Greenwood

April 4, 2005

Key features of the Master Plan (1)

• Principle of access– to all who can benefit– state’s responsibility to fund access

• Differential admissions pools – to ensure high standards and to encourage students to take

lower division at the community colleges

• Community college transfer– ensures universal access and route to 4-year segments– 60:40 ratio to preserve access for all eligible transfers

Key features of the Master Plan (2)

• Differentiation of mission & functions

– to ensure quality and efficient allocation of resources– limits the no. of campuses offering high-cost doctoral

and professional education programs – greater focus on undergraduate education at CSU

and CCCs– cost structure enables universal access

Differentiation of function: UC

• State’s primary academic agency for research

• Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education

• Sole authority for doctoral degrees (CSU able to offer joint doctorates)

• Sole authority for instruction in law, medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine

Differentiation of function: CSU

• Undergraduate education, graduate, and professional education through the Master’s degree

• Teacher education• Faculty research consistent with the primary

mission of instruction• Doctorates jointly with UC or an independent

institution

Differentiation of function:Community Colleges

• Academic & vocational instruction through the first two years of undergraduate education (lower division)

• Remedial instruction• English as Second Language (ESL) courses• Adult noncredit instruction• Community service courses • Workforce training services

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Indicators of concern

• Proportion of 24-year-olds with a degree in natural sciences or engineering: U.S. was 3rd in the world in 1975, 17th today

• CA 8th graders: last in the country on science tests, 7th from bottom in math

• CA has 16% of the nation’s high-tech jobs, but only 9% of nation’s S&E degrees

• K-12 inequities reflected in large numbers of math, science teachers w/o credential

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