Amidst the excitement over the Regents and tuition and state funding, we seem to have forgotten that once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a Master Plan for Higher Education that delineated roles for the three segments. Remind us of how dead that Plan is, comes this story about community colleges offering 4-year degrees:
Grossmont-Cuyamaca, MiraCosta, San Diego and Southwestern community
college districts are among 36 in the state that have officially
expressed interest in offering four-year bachelor’s degrees. The
California Community Colleges chancellor’s office has announced that the
36 districts, or half of all districts in the state, have submitted
letters of intent to host a baccalaureate degree program as part of a
pilot project to expand the role of the schools, which traditionally
have offered only two-year associate degrees. Only 15 districts
will be chosen to offer a baccalaureate degree program at one of their
colleges in a field of study not offered by the California State
University or University of California. The selection process will
consider geography, diversity of proposed programs, the ability of the
college to establish a rigorous program and local or statewide workforce
need. The final selection is scheduled to be made by the community college system board of governors on Jan. 15. The
selected programs must be established by the 2017-18 school year,
though districts may start them as early as fall 2015 upon receiving
approval from the accreditation agency. The law sunsets after the
2022-23 school year, meaning the Legislature will have to act to extend
the programs or make them permanent...
Full story at http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2014/nov/21/local-community-colleges-vie-to-offer-four-year/
Is there really any doubt that when 2022-23 comes around, the legislature won't make the programs permanent? As we have noted in prior posts, the results of this dropping of the Master Plan are minimal on UC (although possibly a few potential transfer students will decide to stay home and complete their degrees at community college). The impact on CSU is greater.
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