1. Long-Range Enrollment Planning
A. Proposed Enrollment Plan for UC, 1995-2005
In advising staff on how to write the draft Plan, the APC agreed on the importance of reiterating the Master Plan
principles that are the University's raison d'etre: i.e., that in addition to providing undergraduate educational
opportunity to the State's most able high school graduates, the University is the State's public doctoral degree
granting and research university. They asked that it be clearly stated that proposed enrollments should be grounded
in the University's commitment to continue to provide the highest quality education to the most able students in
California, to continue operational and programmatic efficiencies in order to ensure access for qualified students
without sacrificing quality, and to build on the University's strengths as a system.
The proposed plan will make modest assumptions about the future undergraduate participation rates and growth in
needs for recipients of graduate and professional degrees, assuming about 1.5% annual growth after 1997-98, the
last year of the University's stabilization plan. The draft Plan will be distributed to the campuses and to the
systemwide Senate for discussion after review by the Council of Chancellors.
B. Health Sciences Long-Range Enrollment Planning
Health Affairs Vice President Hopper introduced the working paper, "Developing A Health Sciences Enrollment
Plan," prepared by the Health Sciences Committee (HSC) and the Office of Health Affairs. The working paper
builds on the planning principles discussed at the November 1994 APC meeting. While the HSC supports the University's
attempt to return to stable fiscal footing which requires freezing the total level of UC health sciences enrollment
until 1997-98, it is apprehensive that this may be harmful to the health sciences programs over the long term.
In the short term, there may be modest shifts among various health sciences disciplines to respond to societal
needs. The working paper proposes adopting one of the following two strategies:
Strategy 1: Continue aggressive health sciences planning. Growth by field would vary if significant enrollment
growth returns after 1997-98, in response to societal and institutional needs. In particular, the HSC advocates
increasing numbers of health sciences graduate academics to provide future leadership in the fields of health care,
education, and research, and to form the core of the University's health sciences faculty for the next century.
The working paper also recommends that the University study the issue of expanding its programs to train ancillary
health professionals.
Strategy 2. Adopt the "Dynamic Status Quo" planning path to restore and maintain the student-faculty
ratio.
The HSC will discuss drafting a plan proposing enrollments for the post- 1997-98 growth period on at its meeting
on March 3, 1995.
3. Continuing Activities
a. Committee on Agricultural Experiment Station Realignment
Agriculture and Natural Resources Vice President Farrell reported that the Committee, chaired by Professor Emeritus
Harold Ticho, met in mid-January with the Deans of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The Committee is reviewing
proposals from the Davis and Riverside campuses on how they would use additional resources and an assessment from
the Berkeley campus on how the proposed reallocation might affect its programs. The Committee expects to make final
recommendations in March.
b. Plans to Work with Other Segments -- Need for Remediation
Provost Massey reported on discussion with CSU's Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and on the CSU Trustees'
debate on remedial education. UC and CSU share the goal of reducing this need and are working with K-12 toward
this objective.
c. Intercampus Academic Program Incentive Fund (IAPIF)
Assistant Vice President Smith reported that the IAPIF is off to a good start. Of the sixteen proposals submitted,
eight were funded. These projects will involve all UC campuses and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
and range from a Berkeley-Davis-Santa Cruz- Livermore effort which will use high-end videoconferencing to deliver
existing courses in digital engineering at all sites, to Irvine, Riverside, and San Diego faculty creating a new
core curriculum for a Ph.D program in Classics that will be centered at Irvine. Additional proposals will be considered
in April.
d. Proposal to Streamline and Expedite Program Review
The Office of the President and the Senate have begun to adopt new procedures to expedite review. A new program
review handbook should be ready this spring.
e. "Educational Initiatives for Troubled Times, A Call to Action: Report of the Advisory Committee for Planning
Professional Programs in Education" (Oakes Report) -- Follow-up Activities
In response to the recommendations in the 1994 report of the Oakes Committee,
(1) UCLA is establishing a center to foster the union of education theory with practice, in research, preservice,
teaching credential, and inservice school programs.
(2) Several UC Deans of Education and Academic Advancement Assistant Vice President Switkes are exploring the possibility
of establishing clinical titles in the UC Schools of Education.