1. Consultation: Briefing by Chair of Council of Graduate Deans
On behalf of the Council of Graduate Deans (COGD), Dean Anne Kernan urged the APC to support the following priorities:
--maintain the long-range goal of graduate enrollment at a minimum of 20% of total enrollment
--continue and make permanent partial fee remission for graduate students
--foster intercampus programs
--more effectively publicize the contributions that UC research has made to the economic and social development
of the State
--remove barriers inhibiting part-time graduate degree programs and students.
Provost Massey will ask the Council of Graduate Deans to identify barriers to part-time degrees and students, and
advise the APC on how to proceed. He will also ask COGD to work with Letters and Science Deans on intercampus cooperation
issues.
2. Intercampus Cooperation
a. Intersegmental Advisory Committee on the Future of Library and Information Science
The California Library Association (CLA) has established a Task Force on the Future of the Library Profession in
California. The Task Force is charged with examining the impact of changing information technology, demographics,
social forces, and government restructuring on library education, the library job market, and libraries' relationships
with government and industry.
The APC supported this initiative and recommended the addition of a California Community College representative
on the CLA Task Force. It also recommended representation from user groups in the legal, technical, and information
services fields, and from private libraries. In addition, CCGA has proposed that a subcommittee of directors of
the three library science
programs in the State, who are also on the Task Force, be established.
b. Planning for Intercampus Cooperation
At their meeting in May, the Humanities and Social Science Deans identified certain European languages and literature
programs as possible candidates for intercampus cooperation, owing to significant VERIP faculty losses systemwide.
A Deans' steering committee will meet in the summer to develop issues and plan the agenda for a fall planning meeting
of deans, faculty,
and appropriate department chairs on intercampus cooperation in European languages and literatures.
c. Intercampus Arts Program
The UC Intercampus Arts Program provides modest support for intercampus cooperation in the arts fields. While the
Office of the President has managed the fund in recent years, it has sought and found a lead campus to handle the
fund on behalf of the system. UCLA is assuming the coordination role of the Intercampus Arts Program from the Office
of the President.
3. Enrollment Planning
a. Health Sciences Enrollment Planning
Vice President Hopper introduced Professor Tony Adams of the Health Sciences Committee and provided the APC with
a brief history of health sciences enrollment planning since the 1950s. After a discussion of the importance of
planning health sciences enrollment at a system level and considering impacts beyond health sciences disciplines,
the APC decided to ask the Health Sciences Committee to develop a set of principles to guide planning in the health
sciences into the next century.
b. Undergraduate and Graduate Enrollment Planning
The APC continued its discussions of undergraduate and graduate enrollment planning. Members agreed that in view
of the University's losses in faculty and resources, and the unlikely prospect that budgets in the foreseeable
future will enable the University to recover the losses that it has
sustained in recent years, it is an appropriate time for campuses to consider fundamentally reviewing their curricula.
4. Compendium of Program Review Processes for Academic Units and Programs
The APC continued its discussion of the Compendium and agreed that it should be distributed to Senate committees
for preliminary comment on new Senate roles described in the document. It will then be revised on the basis of
those comments and distributed to the campuses and Senate for review and comment in September. CCGA Chair Aimee
Dorr will preview the proposed
changes for The Regents at the June Board meeting.
5. Continuing Activities
a. Status of the Ad Hoc Committee on Agricultural Experiment Station
Realignment
The APC reviewed the draft charge presented by DANR Associate Vice President Henry Vaux. The advisory committee
will be charged with reviewing the programmatic impact on the agricultural sciences due to faculty losses resulting
from the VERIP program; commenting on specific funding and programmatic solutions contained in Vice President Farrell's
proposal,
"Toward Realignment of the Agricultural Experiment Station;" and making recommendations to strengthen,
coordinate, and consolidate programs in agriculture and natural resources.
b. Possible follow-up actions on the Oakes Report: Educational Initiatives
for Troubled Times
The APC agreed that two Oakes Report recommendations, which have systemwide implications, should be addressed:
(1) the reconstituted UC/CSU Joint Graduate Board will be asked to evaluate the effectiveness of existing joint
UC/CSU programs, and (2) the Office of Academic Advancement will be asked to explore possibilities for providing
outreach to schools using summer salaries and/or the extension specialist model rather than a new personnel series.
In addition, the Education Deans will discuss the Report to determine if they should take action.
6. July Meeting
At its July 5 meeting, the last of this academic year, the APC will revisit its initial priority list of systemwide
issues requiring APC action. Incoming chairs of the Senate committees represented on the APC will be invited to
attend.