Academic Planning
Academic Planning & Accountability Mission Statement:
The Academic Planning and Accountability staff seeks to strengthen UC’s planning, accountability, and decision-making for academic excellence.
Objectives:
- Examining the nature, size, and shape of UC's academic activities and its service to the state and the nation;
- Evaluate, analyze, and publically report on UC’s progress in achieving its goals;
- Analyzing and responding to emerging academic and workforce trends and challenges;
- Providing stewardship of UC’s academic vision, goals, and policies;
- Identifying and advancing UC’s interest in emerging forms of teaching, research, and service;
- Representing UC’s academic interests to statewide planning entities and the regional accrediting body.
Examples of Academic Planning's work include:
- Develop Accountability framework and prepare the President's annual Accountability report.
- Develop an integrated and streamlined reporting system for routine campus submissions and sharing of requested data and analyses throughout the year.
- Provide analyses for major UC-wide and state studies of higher education policy
- Support the Academic Planning Council (pdf)
- Enrollment planning
- Analyze student demand, workforce needs and other pressures that influence projected enrollments;
- Identify academic and budgetary issues related to the University's ability to accommodate students over the long term
- Conduct administrative review of new academic programs (pdf)
- Liaison to regional accrediting body
- Improvement of undergraduate and graduate education
- Examine student engagement and performance to provide positive and meaningful learning experiences
- Analyze issues of academic and institutional quality and accountability
- Examine curricular reforms needed for new modes of instruction
- Statewide academic planning and coordination – liaison with the California Postsecondary Education Committee (CPEC) and for staffing reviews of the Master Plan for Higher Education
- Liaison with UC Extension and Summer Sessions
- Review and update academic-related standing policies, such as the
Self-Supporting Graduate Degree Programs Policy
The unit's agenda changes to reflect emerging issues.