APC has received comments and questions via E-mail from faculty, students,
and staff. Most have been questions about the composition of the APC from groups who would like to participate.
The APC responded by deciding that, in addition to representatives of groups discussed at earlier meetings, they
will invite the Chair of the Council of UC Staff Assemblies (CUCSA) to brief the APC periodically on staff concerns
and issues as they pertain to planning.
1. Undergraduate and Graduate Enrollment Planning
In reviewing the paper on access prepared for the Regents' discussion at their March meeting, the APC members expressed
clearly their concern that none of the options are very good ones and emphasized the importance of taking into
account the implications that the University's choices may have on the other segments and on the Master Plan for
Higher Education. At its next meeting, the APC wants to devote substantial time to discussion of these issues and
of a staff paper outlining the issues in undergraduate enrollment planning which will be completed and distributed
shortly.
2. Intercampus Cooperation
The APC is asking several UC groups to implement recommendations of the Task Force Report on Intercampus Programs
and Distance Learning (IPDL). After a discussion with Provost Carol Christ (Letters and Science, Berkeley), who
chaired the Task Force, the APC identified the actions most likely to support expanded intercampus cooperation
and referred selected recommendations to specific groups for implementation:
Recommendation 1: AVP for Student Academic Services Galligani will work with the registrars to implement a course-sharing
mechanism, once the Divisional Senates have removed any policy barriers.
Recommendation 2 asks the Universitywide Senate to work with the Divisional Senates as soon as possible to develop
policies which facilitate the course approval process for courses shared between campuses.
Recommendations 3, 6, and 7 address academic personnel policy issues. AVP for Academic Advancement Switkes will
draft language for discussion and resolution with appropriate Academic Senate committees.
Recommendation 5 focuses on enabling faculty to serve on Universitywide dissertation committees and therefore will
require CCGA action.
Recommendation 8: AVP Smith will work with the Letters and Science Deans to develop one or more models for intercampus
coursework. Provost Massey, AVP Smith, and Director Merritt met with the Letters and Science Deans on March 10-11
to begin this process.
Recommendation 10 addresses issues related to expanding the use of summer session and University Extension and
implementing programs for parttime degrees. OP and the Chancellors will ask summer session directors and University
Extension deans about the feasibility of this recommendation. The APC will ask that CCGA develop policies on degree-related
issues and that UCAP examine related academic personnel issues.
Recommendation 11 asks that the University ensure that intercampus networks are current. Provost Massey and Senior
Vice President Kennedy have established a task force to develop a five-year plan for expanding and upgrading the
telecommunications network. It will submit its report in June 1994.
At its April 11 meeting, APC will review a proposal that OP and the Academic Senate sponsor an All-University conference
on intercampus cooperation.
Copies of the Task Force Report may be ordered by E-mailing or telephoning Cherly Lofton-Brown (E-mail: cherly.brown@ucop.edu
or telephone: (510) 987-9469).
3. Health Sciences Committee
Vice President Hopper provided the APC with a new draft charge for the Health Sciences Committee (HSC). The HSC
will be a standing subcommittee of the APC and will serve in an advisory capacity to it and to the Vice President
of Health Affairs. The HSC will serve as a locus for coordination and coherence in planning for the health sciences.
It will identify, study, and make recommendations on health sciences-related issues relevant to the University.
The Chair and the Vice Chair of the APC will appoint the members of the Health Sciences Committee and its Chair
from nominations submitted by the Chancellors. HSC members will be drawn primarily from the health sciences faculty
and administration, will reflect a broad disciplinary spectrum, and will include representation from the clinical
faculty and hospital administration. When issues related to the health sciences are on the agenda of the APC, the
HSC Chair will be invited to attend.
4. Reducing Course Work Generally Taught in High School (Subcommittee Chair Malcolm Nicol)
This subcommittee is continuing to work with OP staff and campus experts to identify ways to increase students'
preparation in English composition.
The APC is requesting that the subcommittee examine the possibility of improved placement examinations in commonly
studied foreign languages. There is concern that some students
are repeating high school work for college credit.
APC members Blakely and Nicol will report to APC on the current requirements for enrolling undergraduates in beginning
language courses at UC campuses and will recommend a new approach.
5. Expediting Decision Making Processes (Subcommittee Chair Aimee Dorr)
The CCGA has created a process for Senate review of Transfer, Consolidation, Discontinuance, and Disestablishment
actions (TCDD). UCPB, UCEP, and CCGA have endorsed the process, which has been favorably received by the Academic
Council. AVP Smith has sent the new procedures to the campuses. At the APC's April meeting the Dorr Subcommittee
will present a comprehensive plan for simplifying all current review procedures.
In discussing the APC's own role in program review, the members agreed that the purpose of the APC was to do systemwide
strategic planning, to discuss and coordinate resolution of major systemwide issues, and to initiate studies that
will inform planning for the system. Consequently the APC will act as a facilitator for campus and systemwide TCDD
processes, not another review layer. However, to identify potential obstacles, highlight systemwide issues, and
assist campuses in moving expeditiously through systemwide review, the APC will need to
know about proposals as early as possible and will ask campuses for presentations about major restructurings that
raise systemwide issues. In this context, the APC decided to talk with UC Irvine and UC Davis as soon as it is
feasible to do so.
The next meeting of the Academic Planning Council will be held on April 11, 1994.