1. New APC Member
The APC welcomed UCEP Chair Manfred Kusch as an ex officio member. He will join the Nicol Subcommittee on reducing
UC course work in subjects taken in high school to meet a to f requirements.
2. Restructuring
a. Proposals for College of Natural Resources at Berkeley and the Universitywide Agricultural Experiment Station.
Because the Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) has suffered budget cuts of 30 to 35 percent over the last four
years, Vice President Kenneth Farrell, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR), has proposed restructuring
the AES by consolidating some programs and reallocating resources for agricultural and related research. The intent
is to strengthen several production agriculture fields in which AES faculty numbers have fallen below critical
mass. VP Farrell's proposal would reallocate resources from Berkeley to Davis and Riverside to achieve this objective.
As reported by Berkeley Provost Judson King, a guest at the discussion, the proposal has provoked controversy at
Berkeley. Executive Vice Chancellors Robert Grey of Davis and David Warren of Riverside, also guests at the meeting,
reported that their campuses support the proposal.
The APC asked Provost Massey to appoint an ad hoc committee to review the proposal and to make recommendations
on restructuring AES.
b. Library and Information Sciences
Because the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses are both proposing to restructure their Schools of Library and Information
Science, some APC members advocate appointing a committee with representatives from these fields and San Jose State
University to make recommendations about the future development of the field of Library and Information Science
in California. There will be further discussion of this at the next APC meeting.
3. Intercampus cooperation.
a. Letters and Science Deans meetings.
The Letters and Science Deans from the northern and southern campuses have agreed to identify areas impacted by
VERIPs and look for ways to alleviate the impacts through collaboration.
The Northern Deans group has begun to pursue cooperative efforts in Italian, and is considering efforts in Near
Eastern languages and the arts. The Southern group will meet on May 16 and 17 to identify areas conducive to collaboration.
Possible candidates include Italian, German, French, and Classical Studies. In addition, Santa Cruz is participating
as UC's lead campus in the formative stages of a statewide foreign language institute at Monterey Bay.
b. Proposal for All-University Conference on intercampus cooperation.
The APC agreed that rather than funding an All-University conference at this juncture, it would be more cost-effective
and productive to fund specific intercampus groups or activities with serious ideas for intercampus cooperation
in specific areas. Special Advisor Neil Smelser will report at the next APC meeting on the characteristics that
make intercampus groups (such as the All-University Economic History Group) successful; he will propose a plan
to foster such groups in areas of critical UC need.
4. Enrollment planning: discussion of papers on access and undergraduate enrollment.
Two papers on access and undergraduate enrollment have been widely distributed through Academic Senate and administrative
routes. They are intended to stimulate discussion that will lead to the development of workable enrollment planning
options over the next several months.
In their initial discussion of these papers, APC members raised questions about assumptions for eligibility rates
for minorities, the effects of weighting enrollments in resource allocation, and the implications of various enrollment
scenarios for the University's facilities. As discussions progress on campuses and in systemwide committees, staff
will prepare additional analyses to address these and other questions that arise.
It is, of course, impossible to discuss undergraduate enrollment planning for this University without also discussing
graduate enrollment. A companion paper about graduate and professional enrollment planning will be distributed
for discussion in early May.
5. Continuing activities
The APC Subcommittee on expediting decision-making processes with regard to academic programs and units is continuing
to develop new and streamlined processes and will make recommendations for action at the May 10 APC meeting.
The Subcommittee on reducing coursework generally taught in high school is developing a proposal for eliminating
UC credit for coursework that repeats high school foreign language courses presented for e and f admissions requirements.
Because APC members asked for information about the actual size of the problem, UCOP staff will compile relevant
data.
The APC's requests for implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on Intercampus Programs and Distance
Learning have been distributed to the responsible Vice Chancellors and Academic Senate committees.
6. Other items of interest
The Davis campus is proposing discontinuance of its program in geography.
The APC e-mail process is working well and a number of UC staff and faculty have expressed appreciation for the
e-mail distribution and have asked questions and commented on the APC bulletins.
The next APC meeting will be held on May 10, 1994 in Oakland.