Commission on the Future begins debate on maintaining quality and availability of UC education after budget cuts
The University of California Commission on the Future received their first round of recommendations on Tuesday, marking the beginning of an ongoing process aimed at ensuring access and affordability within the UC system.
The Commission on the Future, created by UC Board of Regents Chairman Russell S. Gould last July, is composed of five working groups whose aim is to address issues ranging from the size and composition of the university to strategies for increasing UC funding.
“Today’s recommendations are a rough draft that will eventually be put up for debate by the academic senate and the Board of Regents,” said UC President Mark Yudof. “They are part of a healthy process of airing various perspectives amid a difficult financial climate.”
During the meeting, held at UC San Francisco, Mission Bay, working group members presented recommendations which included creating a three-year undergraduate degree program, researching the advantages of expanding online instruction, and providing multi-year fee increase schedules to UC students and parents.
The proposals also included improving community college transfer efficiency by streamlining lower-division major requirements, as well as increasing the number and proportion of non-resident students at the undergraduate level.
Because of the exploratory nature of these recommendations, which will require more discussion and research over the coming months, they elicited a significant amount of
