Opinion: Time to revisit outdated Master Plan for Higher Education
By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee
As California’s population surged from migration and a postwar baby boom in the 1950s, education and political leaders wrote a Master Plan for Higher Education that envisioned a seamless array of low-cost, high-quality coursework.
Dan Walters
Community colleges would offer two-year degree programs, technical training and lower-division classes for students planning to transfer to four-year schools.
The state college – later university – system would train the teachers, engineers and other professionals that a growing state would need in great abundance.
The University of California would be the state’s engine of research, offer a greater array of baccalaureate fields to top-tier high school graduates, train physicians and lawyers, and provide postgraduate studies up to the doctorate level.