"Assemblyman Marty Block will present a bill in February that could alter California’s 50-year-old Master Plan for Higher Education by establishing a pilot program that allows community colleges to offer four-year degrees.
According to the master plan, which was signed in 1960 by Gov. Edmund Brown, the public postsecondary education system has three segments: the University of California system, which was designed to provide undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees; the California State University system, which was designed to provided undergraduate and graduate degrees; and the California Community Colleges, which were designed to provide academic and vocational instruction through the first two years of undergraduate degrees."