Current Planning Priorities
Current systemwide academic planning activities include extending the shared understanding of campus plans and priorities, and ensuring that these academic priorities drive the budget process.
Additional planning efforts include:
- Long-range enrollment planning: Current efforts are focused on developing a new enrollment plan for the University out to 2020 so that we can physically plan the campuses, have a solid basis for long-range development plans, and develop funding models that will work after tidal wave two recedes. For more information, see the Long Range Enrollment Planning website.
- Systemwide research: Planning for systemwide research includes examining new approaches to collaborative research within and among the campuses to solve problems or capture opportunities that are now beyond the capacity of any one campus acting alone.
- Undergraduate education: The University is re-examining what undergraduate education should be in today’s world. Specific efforts are focusing on how to easily offer systemwide undergraduate programs such as the Education Abroad Program, the Language Learning Consortium, and the Sacramento Center across campuses.
- Diversity: Through an examination of diversity, we will explore how to strengthen our programs and improve access to those programs for all Californians.
- Health: The University is taking the next steps in planning for enrollment growth in the health sciences. Other efforts are focusing on nursing education, and planning for much needed growth in public health research and education. In addition, we will be developing and evaluating a plan for a systemwide school of global health.
- Information technology: Work in this area is focusing on coordinating investment in systemwide IT infrastructure in order to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and enhance opportunities for innovation. More information is available from the Information Technology Guidance Committee website.
- K-12 educational imperative: The many challenges around K-12 education are some of the greatest threats now facing California. Several strategies have emerged as the focus of our efforts. They include: drawing on the University’s research expertise in order to understand the problems that exist for K-12 education in California and surface and evaluate potential solutions; coordinating ongoing programmatic efforts among our campuses and in partnership with California State University and the community colleges; and leveraging our capacities for technology innovation to improve access to high-quality K-12 education for all Californians.